Adaptation and probation period as means of introducing and retaining new core employees in IT-companies: approaches, practices, models, and methods

The key factor of the company\'s success in the IT industry is an effective system of retaining new core specialists. In most IT companies, special importance is attached to approaches and methods of retaining new core employees focused on building long-term mutually beneficial cooperation. Real practice shows that the bulk of new employees are dismissed at the initial stage of their introduction into the company. Managers of IT companies need to focus on the introduction of management approaches, models and methods aimed at retaining new profile employees (especially qualified and promising ones) at the stage of their initial introduction into the organization. The research purpose was to identify approaches, practices and methods aimed at effectively retaining new core employees in the process of their introduction into an IT company. The effective approaches, practices and methods of introducing new core employees in IT organizations, including those that have demonstrated their effectiveness during the COVID-19 period, are considered. It is established that the effective process of introducing and retaining new core employees in an IT organization should involve the simultaneous implementation of accompanying and complementary personnel processes: adaptation and probation. A model for the introduction and retention of new core employees in an IT company based on the implementation of interrelated and complementary personnel processes of adaptation and probation is developed.

introduction of new employees to the organization, staff retention, adaptation, probationary period, core employee, IT specialist, IT company