Orientation Process Overview
What You Can Expect from the Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness (HROE) Team and Your Team Leader
- On your first day of employment you will receive guidance from a HROE representative for navigating the many critical needs involved in getting paid and beginning in your new position: employment forms, benefits, parking, employee id and a review of the contents of the New Employee Notebook you are provided.
- Within the first week you are scheduled to attend a University Benefits Orientation that outlines your benefits options for which your enrollment is needed within 31 days of start date.
- Within the first week your team leader (or designee) will meet with you to begin orientation to your team, your assignments and team goals and policies. They will review the New Employee Notebook and provide you with additional materials.
- Within 4-8 weeks you are invited to meet with HROE and Partners Team representatives in a Partners Orientation session. They will be sure you understand and answer any questions related to:
- The Library Work-Related Employment Policies
- Benefits
- Your rights and responsibilities as an employee
- Compensation
- Team budgets and business operations
- Time/pay issues
- Security/facility/work environment information
- In addition to these formal orientation activities, you will be invited to participate in the Libraries’ New Employee Orientation (NEO) Foundation Sessions and many other team and Library/CCP activities during your first year and beyond. In our rapidly changing work environment, orientation to new technologies and organizational systems is an ongoing activity for all of us.
- If you are a Classified Staff member, and new to the University of Arizona, you will set goals in line with our PEMSystem with your team leader’s guidance, and receive a developmental review half-way through the probationary period of six months. This mid-probation review is your opportunity to your progress and your potential to be successful by the end of the probation period. A final review, before the end of the probationary review is conducted to determine whether you will pass probation. This official assessment is made by your team leader based on her/his judgment whether you will be able to successfully perform all assignments related to your position. You will be notified of the results of that review prior to the final day of probation. If you are not retained, you will be notified of the termination of your probationary appointment (link to policy). At any time during your probation, you may receive notice of termination if you are not assessed as able to successfully meet the requirements of the position (italics will need review; added 6/19/07). When you pass probation, your team leader will guide you in setting additional performance and learning goals for the rest of the fiscal year.
- If you are in an Appointed Personnel (AP) or a member of the Library Faculty, there are guidelines for the first six months or your employment at the Libraries and you will write goals, and receive developmental reviews in line with our PEMSystem.
Appointed Personnel are year-to-year appointments and do not have an official probation period; your team leader will guide you to set appropriate performance and learning goals and assign you peer developmental reviewers; near the end of the fiscal year you will receive a Performance Appraisal, and will learn whether you are performing satisfactorily and where improvements will be expected the following year.
Library Faculty appointed with Continuing Status follow the individual goal writing process in the PEMSystem. Continuing-Eligible Library Faculty, in addition to following the goal-writing process in the PEMSystem, must submit their summary Progress Report on Scholarship and Service Goals to the LFA Promotion and Continuing Status (P&CS) Committee. These faculty should also be continually planning for their third year, in-depth, review of progress toward continuing status from the LFA P&CS Committee.
6/19/06 (SP rev. 06/20/07)
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