Remote Hiring And Onboarding Best Practices Lesson Plan for 12th Grade Students

Topic: Remote hiring and onboarding best practices

Objectives & Outcomes

• Understand the challenges of hiring and onboarding remote workers
• Learn best practices for conducting effective interviews and assessing remote skills
• Create a positive virtual onboarding experience for remote employees

Materials

• Notebook or laptop for taking notes
• Internet connection
• Audio or video conferencing software (e.g. Skype, Google Hangouts)

Warm-up

• Ask participants to share their experiences with hiring and onboarding remote workers. What challenges have they faced? What practices have they found effective?
• Next, show a brief video about the benefits of hiring remote workers and the challenges of remote hiring and onboarding.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the topic of remote hiring and onboarding. Explain the benefits of hiring remote workers, including increased flexibility, lower cost, and access to a wider pool of talent.
• Discuss the challenges of remote hiring and onboarding, including difficulty in assessing remote skills and creating a positive virtual onboarding experience.
• Review basic interview techniques and best practices for assessing remote skills.
• Discuss strategies for creating a positive virtual onboarding experience for remote employees. This should include establishing clear expectations, providing detailed instructions, and establishing a method for regular communication.

Guided Practice:

• Have students work in small groups to conduct a mock interview with a fellow student, assessing their remote skills and asking questions about their experience and knowledge of the field.
• As a class, review the interview questions and discuss the best methods for assessing remote skills.
• Have students work in small groups to create a virtual onboarding plan for a hypothetical remote employee, including a Welcome Message, a detailed description of their duties and responsibilities, and a method for regular communication.

Independent Practice:

• Have students work in small groups to create a mock remote hiring and onboarding process for their own business or organization. They should include all of the steps outlined in the guided practice activity, as well as additional steps that they feel are important.
• Have students present their remote hiring and onboarding process to the class and explain the rationale behind their decisions.

Closure:

• Review the key takeaways from the lesson, including the importance of remote hiring and onboarding for maximizing business agility, the challenges and best practices for remote hiring and onboarding, and the role of technology in remote work.
• Discuss how the students can apply the learnings from the lesson to their own freelancing or professional endeavors.

Assessment:

• Assess the students' understanding of the material through participation in class discussions and group activities.
• Evaluate the students' remote skills through the virtual onboarding process they set up with their virtual employee.
• Administer a written test on the key takeaways from the lesson.