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Hi, this is Stephanie Maas, partner with Thinking Ahead Search Firm today.

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I wanna give a shout out to all my community and regional banks.

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This is based on a recent experience of a candidate that I
placed in the last couple of months who came from a mega bank.

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We were talking at the end of week one and I said, Hey, how did it go?

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What was it like?

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And he said, I have to tell you, I was really surprised this week.

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So typically, I'm not a big fan of surprises.

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Um, because most of the time it's not flowers, chocolate, wine, et cetera.

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It's Oh, surprise, but not in this case.

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He said when I got to work on Monday, we had orientation all day.

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He said, usually, Stephanie, those are super boring.

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They're long and it's monotonous.

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You just know it's gonna be a painful day.

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That's fine.

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He said it wasn't.

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It was actually very valuable information.

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It was very helpful, and I really enjoyed the interaction
amongst the other folks that I was there with.

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Second day, he goes to his actual real desk.

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He said everything was there, everything was set up.

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He had his computer, he had business cards.

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He had his phone.

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He had his phone with a voicemail that actually worked and he chuckled
and said, Stephanie, I was at my last employer for almost two years.

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My voicemail never worked.

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I was a constant, outstanding ticket with their IT department.

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I had to chuckle, so it made me think about how important onboarding
is one to give the shout out, and it's an easy thing, especially in
you're, if you're in a slightly smaller organization to knock out of the

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park.