A checklist is a great way to tame the chaos, guiding them through what needs to be completed in the first days, weeks and months in a new role. Even for the most diligent employee, things are bound to fall through the cracks. This is good, because the employee has things to work on, but this is where the fire hose begins. The day an employee starts in a new role, they are likely given a variety of tasks to accomplish, documents to review, classes to take, people to connect with, and more. So how can you set up an onboarding program that helps employees hit the ground running versus running for the door? Here are some key things to consider: In fact, according to Aberdeen, 86% of new hires make the decision to stay long term or leave, within their first six months. Nobody can drink water that fast, and I'm pretty sure that drinking from a fire hose can cause severe injuries or death! Likewise - pushing too much information at an employee all at once can be a key contributor of them leaving the organization. While this analogy might be accurate, it's definitely not an ideal scenario. "Drinking from the fire hose" is a phrase often used when describing a new employee's onboarding experience as they try to absorb as much information as possible. Employers are hoping for the same thing, and want employees that can hit the ground running. In general, employees want to learn the ropes as quickly as possible so they can become full-fledged contributors and begin to make an impact in their new role. Going from that class to the other, conducting this interview with my marketing team mates, attending this workshop on networking, handing in that system design assignment we spent half our week-end working on, giving that improvised pitch in front of the New Enterprises classmates, bumping into this computer science PhD that studied in HEC with me, learning great tips from him, trying to convince my classmates to work on my business idea, finding the time to eat and sleep… All this in the very same day.īeing a student at MIT won’t happen twice, that fire hose will help me make the most of it.Did you know that starting a new job can be about as stressful as dealing with a mortgage foreclosure, or the birth of a child? I was surprised to see that in a well-respected study that rates the most stressful life events, but it isn't too hard to imagine. And then, you make tough and wise decisions and drop this class, decide to focus on your goals and do all that’s in your power to reach them.Īnd it feels like living several days within a day. MIT is intense, just like the fire hose’s pressure And he was right, it really does feel like being in a candy shop… or drinking from a firehose!
I remember Giacommo, an MSMS alumni, telling me studying at MIT felt like being a child in a huge candy shop: he wanted to take all those candies back home. …And, as a business student, you wish you would partner with this engineer to commercialize that invention. You wish you had more time, you wish you were given the chance to have more than 24 hours within a day, you wish your body could commute within seconds in this huge campus, you wish an MIT neuroscience student could come up with an invention enabling you to study or work on your business plan while you sleep. MIT is frustrating because you can’t drink all the water from the fire hose I feel richer everyday, even though my bank account says the contrary.Ĭhoosing my classes felt like choosing five or six items from an island that has infinite treasures. I was spoiled, I knew it. I wouldn’t be able to list all the treasures I have found so far at MIT. Studying at MIT feels like being on a treasure island And I agree it is. But so is MIT: its facilities, its ressources, its dedicated staff, its passionate professors, its entrepreneurial spirit… all of these components make the students crazy enough to believe in the statement. The mission statement of MIT states: “We seek to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind”.
Only such an Institution would have students building a water fountain with a fire-hose… MIT stands for Madassussetts Institute of Technology We were all standing in front of this wonderful piece of art, while trying to understand how studying in MIT could possibly be related to drinking from a firehose…Īnd then, I became an MIT student and started to understand what Jerome Weisner, MIT’s President from 1971 to 1980, meant by alluding to the fire-hose… I heard this quote on my second day in Cambridge, while Joost was taking my MSMS classmates and myself around MIT’s campus.
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