Human Capital MBA

Onboarding, Organizational Socialization and Recruitment Metrics: What Happens After the Offer Is Signed, and How Anyone Claims to Know It Worked

A new hire accepting an offer is not the end of the hiring process; it is the point where two separate, under-examined jobs begin. This lesson closes Module 08 by covering what Van Maanen and Schein's socialization-tactics theory and three decades of follow-up research actually say about turning a new hire into a functioning insider, and by naming plainly why time-to-fill and cost-per-hire have standardized formulas while "quality of hire," the metric meant to show whether the whole selection effort was worth it, still does not.

2 Nov 2026 · 23 min read