What to do when your new job has a very unstructured onboarding process? Expected to know how to do everything with one brief walkthrough via Zoom, and more or less left to guess everything else.

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Suspect your agency has high turnover?

You could offer to put together a more comprehensive onboarding doc, that would give you the excuse to ask questions, and make it explicit that a lot of stuff wasn't covered during your own onboarding?

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I had a pretty bad onboarding process at my last agency too. Can you talk to your supervisor or team lead to get more insight?

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