When you’ve successfully hired veterans, bringing them on board is one of the most crucial parts of the process to be successful in keeping them retained on your payroll after you bring them onto your team.
The on-boarding process is where you’re going to make that veteran feel the most welcome with the rest of the team, the rest of the employees, with your staff. However large or small your company is, it is critical that during the on-boarding process that veterans feel that they are welcomed both as a part of the team and that they are recognized as veterans.
Now, we’ll have more videos in the future on details on how to do just that, but the on-boarding process is critical. If you have a human resources department, they are the main people who are going to make those veterans feel like they’re part of the team when they walk in that door for the first time. In fact, it even starts before that. The interview process and the other parts of filling out the applications, everything that comes into on-boarding is critical.
Now, some veterans are not going to immediately self-identify. There are a lot of reasons for that. Sometimes they just had a bad experience with it in the past. Sometimes they’re just self-conscious about being veterans and they’re very, very humble.
The critical point is, once you’ve identified veterans and you’ve brought them onto your team, into your company, as part of your business, you make them feel welcome and you make them feel important. And again, this is not to say that everybody else on the team is not important. That is the furthest thing from the truth. Everybody on the team is important. But if you’re looking for veterans and want to keep veterans on your payroll, bringing them on board the right way the first time is the most critical step in the process.
We hope to talk to you again very soon. This is Bruce Townshend for Vetted Employers.
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