Article by Dawn Onley May 8, 2019
Some employees think they want to work in a particular job, but once they get the position, they realize it’s more than they bargained for.
Kimberly Lundy, SHRM-SCP, has seen this scenario play out when she was an HR leader for a behavioral health nonprofit. She started a job-shadowing program for prospective employees that would give candidates hands-on experience, and they could then determine if they were still interested in pursuing the job.
“We did it with the incoming talent so it was literally a part of the interview process,” said Lundy, who now heads Lundy HR Consulting, a Frederick, Md.-based consulting firm. “I think sometimes it really took people seeing the job to get a good grasp of what they’d be doing.”
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