Onboarding: Your first days or weeks when the company sets you up: accounts, laptop, access, policies, team introductions and training.
Example
During onboarding, you get your company email, access to the code repository and a session explaining the project.
Why Onboarding matters for IT interns
This is the easiest time to ask basic questions. Use it to learn how the team and its tools work.
Where you will hear it
You will come across this term while searching for internships, reading offers, and talking to recruiters or your college placement cell. If someone uses it and you are not sure what they mean in your project, it is completely fine to ask; every team uses terms a little differently.
Related terms
- Joining Date: The date you officially start the internship or job.
- Notice Period: The time you must keep working after you resign, or that a company gives before ending your role.
- Off-Campus Placement: Applying for internships or jobs on your own, outside the college placement process — through career pages,…
- Paid Internship: An internship where you receive a monthly stipend for your work.
- Pre-Placement Offer (PPO): A full-time job offer given to an intern before regular campus placements, usually because they did well…
- Probation: A trial period after joining as a regular employee, when the company reviews your performance before…
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Frequently asked questions
What is Onboarding?
Your first days or weeks when the company sets you up: accounts, laptop, access, policies, team introductions and training.
What is an example of Onboarding?
During onboarding, you get your company email, access to the code repository and a session explaining the project.
Why does Onboarding matter for IT interns?
This is the easiest time to ask basic questions. Use it to learn how the team and its tools work.
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About the author
Dhaivat has 16+ years of experience in the IT industry, working on AI and cloud technologies, project delivery, and engineering leadership. He has interviewed and mentored many interns, wrote The Lost Intern, and runs the non-commercial Career Impact Initiative, mentoring students for free.