Onboarding: Military Life Before Joining The Military

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I must confess that military life is more thorough than the civilian life. I worked in the civilian world before joining the military and can say there is much difference. Therefore, the topic "onboarding" is practiced more in the military environment than the civilian one. Let think about the number of times a service member is asked to go on transfer, deployment, duty stations, orders, and duty assignment at various points, which go with "indoc" and "inprocessing". According to Bauer (2010), onboarding helps new employees adjust to their jobs by establishing better relationships to increase satisfaction, clarifying expectations and objectives to improve performance, and providing support to help reduce unwanted turnover. This implies that

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