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first time

English translation: orientation meeting; new hire meeting

22:01 Nov 15, 2004
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Accounting
English term or phrase: first time
Help me find a noun.
When an employee starts working the first time. There will be a meeting that introduce everything about the company. What is such meeting?
Also when student enter a school the first time. What is such meeting.
adda
Selected answer:orientation meeting; new hire meeting
Explanation:
New Hire Orientation :: Human Resources :: The College of New ...... New Hire Orientation. All newly hired employees are scheduled for an orientation meeting within the first two weeks of their start date. ...
www.tcnj.edu/~hr/newhire/orientation.html - 9k - Cached - Similar pages


Execustaff | Services | Your New Hire... Development of customized new hire material for your company, including offer letter, confidentiality agreement, employment ... Individualized orientation meeting. ...
www.execustaff.net/services_newhire.html - 11k - Cached - Similar pages


KJB lab FAQ - New Hire ProceduresNew Hire Procedures Welcome to Dr. Black's lab and the Department of ... you with future dates of a mandatory Washington University Employee Orientation meeting. ...
www.nil.wustl.edu/labs/kevin/man/answers/new_hire.htm - 5k - Cached - Similar pages


NewEmployeeOrientation... Classified Staff New Hire Orientation provides a welcome to our campus community for classified staff, explores why the University of Nevada, Reno is a great ...
www.howler.unr.edu/ppp/NewEmployeeOrientation.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages


Training Calendar... New Hire Benefits Orientation, November 17, 2004 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, Getchell Library,Instruction Room 3, Rhonda Auble BCN Benefits. ...
www.howler.unr.edu/ppp/TrainingCalendar.htm - 36k - Nov 14, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages
[ More results from www.howler.unr.edu ]


[DOC] Supervisor Check List for New HiresFile Format: Microsoft Word 2000 - View as HTML
... New Hire Personnel Action Form (PAF), Personal Information Form, and PMF (if new position ... Agree on date for Benefits Orientation meeting (first week, if possible ...
www.vanderbilt.edu/stop/forms/ uploads/Sup_checklist_final_V3.doc - Similar pages


Physician Executive: Is Your Orientation Program An Adhesive or A ...... when many organizations had lengthy training programs before the new hire was officially ... The orientation meeting leader who asks for questions, gets none, and ...
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m0843/is_1_27/ai_70033634 - 26k - Cached - Similar pages


[PDF] Electronic Version Available at www.betterkidcare.psu.edu NEW ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... _____ Check as completed, sign at the bottom after orientation meeting. ... Plan, Child Care Benefit) _____ ID/ Nametag NEW HIRE ORIENTATION CHECKLIST ...
betterkidcare.psu.edu/ CenterDirectors/ReviewEmployStatus.pdf - Similar pages


R25 WebViewer: Events by Day... 206. 02:00 PM, 04:00 PM, New-hire IT Orientation (New-hire 2 - 4), LCC12 119A. 02:00 PM, 04:00 PM, HR Orientation (Meeting), LCC03 107. 02 ...
showlane.lanecc.edu:28000/wv3_servlet/urd/ run/wv_event.DayList?evdt=20040928,evfilter=15691,ebdviewmode=grid - 58k - Cached - Similar pages


[DOC] Colorado Springs School District 11File Format: Microsoft Word 97 - View as HTML
... Temporary employees are handled in pre-employment. Only classified employees attend a formal orientation meeting. ... The following outlines the New Hire process: ...
tbr.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/BenAsIs/BEN100-107.doc - Similar pages

Selected response from:

Marian Greenfield
Local time: 18:00
Grading comment
Graded automatically based on peer agreement.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +6orientation meeting; new hire meeting
Marian Greenfield
5 +3induction
Michel A.
4 +1orientation
Melanie Nassar
4briefing session
Julie Roy
3an informative gathering
Derek Gill Franßen


  

Answers


1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
induction


Explanation:
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Michel A.
Local time: 18:00
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Marian Greenfield: induction into the army... not common for new hires, at least not in the U.S. Interesting... sometimes one wonders if we speak the same language at all on opposites sides of the pond....
1 min
  -> quite common here
agree  Neil Phillipson: An induction day, induction week - good for Adda's question, but more than a meeting
2 mins
  -> Cheers
agree  Charlie Bavington: certainly companies I've worked for in the UK have called it induction.
1 hr
  -> Cheers
agree  tappi_k: yes it would be called induction, here in scotland at least
3 hrs
  -> Cheers
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
orientation meeting; new hire meeting


Explanation:
New Hire Orientation :: Human Resources :: The College of New ...... New Hire Orientation. All newly hired employees are scheduled for an orientation meeting within the first two weeks of their start date. ...
www.tcnj.edu/~hr/newhire/orientation.html - 9k - Cached - Similar pages


Execustaff | Services | Your New Hire... Development of customized new hire material for your company, including offer letter, confidentiality agreement, employment ... Individualized orientation meeting. ...
www.execustaff.net/services_newhire.html - 11k - Cached - Similar pages


KJB lab FAQ - New Hire ProceduresNew Hire Procedures Welcome to Dr. Black's lab and the Department of ... you with future dates of a mandatory Washington University Employee Orientation meeting. ...
www.nil.wustl.edu/labs/kevin/man/answers/new_hire.htm - 5k - Cached - Similar pages


NewEmployeeOrientation... Classified Staff New Hire Orientation provides a welcome to our campus community for classified staff, explores why the University of Nevada, Reno is a great ...
www.howler.unr.edu/ppp/NewEmployeeOrientation.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages


Training Calendar... New Hire Benefits Orientation, November 17, 2004 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, Getchell Library,Instruction Room 3, Rhonda Auble BCN Benefits. ...
www.howler.unr.edu/ppp/TrainingCalendar.htm - 36k - Nov 14, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages
[ More results from www.howler.unr.edu ]


[DOC] Supervisor Check List for New HiresFile Format: Microsoft Word 2000 - View as HTML
... New Hire Personnel Action Form (PAF), Personal Information Form, and PMF (if new position ... Agree on date for Benefits Orientation meeting (first week, if possible ...
www.vanderbilt.edu/stop/forms/ uploads/Sup_checklist_final_V3.doc - Similar pages


Physician Executive: Is Your Orientation Program An Adhesive or A ...... when many organizations had lengthy training programs before the new hire was officially ... The orientation meeting leader who asks for questions, gets none, and ...
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m0843/is_1_27/ai_70033634 - 26k - Cached - Similar pages


[PDF] Electronic Version Available at www.betterkidcare.psu.edu NEW ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... _____ Check as completed, sign at the bottom after orientation meeting. ... Plan, Child Care Benefit) _____ ID/ Nametag NEW HIRE ORIENTATION CHECKLIST ...
betterkidcare.psu.edu/ CenterDirectors/ReviewEmployStatus.pdf - Similar pages


R25 WebViewer: Events by Day... 206. 02:00 PM, 04:00 PM, New-hire IT Orientation (New-hire 2 - 4), LCC12 119A. 02:00 PM, 04:00 PM, HR Orientation (Meeting), LCC03 107. 02 ...
showlane.lanecc.edu:28000/wv3_servlet/urd/ run/wv_event.DayList?evdt=20040928,evfilter=15691,ebdviewmode=grid - 58k - Cached - Similar pages


[DOC] Colorado Springs School District 11File Format: Microsoft Word 97 - View as HTML
... Temporary employees are handled in pre-employment. Only classified employees attend a formal orientation meeting. ... The following outlines the New Hire process: ...
tbr.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/BenAsIs/BEN100-107.doc - Similar pages




    24 years in the business - most of it managing translation service for an investment bank
Marian Greenfield
Local time: 18:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Graded automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Neil Phillipson: US English, but people in the UK would understand it
3 mins
  -> thanks
agree  Melanie Nassar: orientation, if it is to be a general term
3 mins
  -> thanks
agree  Derek Gill Franßen: Yes, this is American usage (I thought "induction" had something to do with motors). ;-)
13 mins
agree  Julie Roy
16 mins
agree  Olga B
27 mins
agree  Java Cafe
2 days 18 hrs
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
orientation


Explanation:
I think this is what you are looking for.

Melanie Nassar
United States
Local time: 01:00
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  airmailrpl: -
1 day 10 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
briefing session


Explanation:
At the beginning of employment: briefing session
At the end of employment: debriefing session

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Note added at 7 mins (2004-11-15 22:09:08 GMT)
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Also: information session (but less specific)

Julie Roy
Canada
Local time: 18:00
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
first time meeting
an informative gathering


Explanation:
...a little softer - good for (elementary schools). ;-)

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Note added at 19 mins (2004-11-15 22:20:46 GMT)
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I only wanted to put \"elementary\" in brackets. ;-)

Derek Gill Franßen
Germany
Local time: 00:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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