{"id":772,"date":"2014-10-07T17:03:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T21:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/?page_id=772"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:45:32","slug":"orientation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/employee-resources\/orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have questions. BU has answers.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a new employee working at least 50 percent of a full-time schedule with an assignment duration of at least 9 months, you will be scheduled for a New Employee orientation session that covers benefits, resources available to you, and campus safety, as well as Boston University\u2019s rich history and heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty members and researchers are scheduled by your department.<br \/>\nRegular staff hires are scheduled by Human Resources.<\/p>\n<p>When you accepted your offer of employment, Human Resources or your department would have specified the date and time of your orientation session.<\/p>\n<p>Orientation is hosted by Human Resources and <strong><em><u>generally<\/u><\/em><\/strong> held virtually via Zoom on Mondays at 9:00 a.m.<br \/>\nYou must be scheduled to attend. We may not be able to accommodate unscheduled attendees.<\/p>\n<p>A few days before your session you will be sent an email with a link to your online session and instructions for using Zoom. Please review it carefully.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions about orientation or you\u2019re unable to attend your session as scheduled, please contact Human Resources as soon as possible at 617-353-2380 to reschedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have questions. BU has answers. If you are a new employee working at least 50 percent of a full-time schedule with an assignment duration of at least 9 months, you will be scheduled for a New Employee orientation session that covers benefits, resources available to you, and campus safety, as well as Boston University\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1756,"featured_media":0,"parent":11912,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20586,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/772\/revisions\/20586"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}