Apprentice Onboarding Packet

This is the onboarding packet for new apprentices. It should be given to them on their first day.

So You Just Started Mentoring a New Apprentice

Great! Here's how you use this:

• Print out pdf/onboarding-packet.pdf and fill in your name, then give it to your apprentice
• Make sure they know that we'd love feedback on this packet
• Encourage your apprentice to flip through the packet, but it's a reference, not a novel. Think of how you'd read a dictionary.
• You should read pdf/mentor-handbook.pdf.

Editing

You should edit markdown/onboarding-packet.md, which is built into a lovely PDF in the pdf/ directory.

Don't put links in onboarding-packet.md, put bare URLs instead so that they show up when printed:

Bad:

Try [Google](http://google.com).

Good:

Try Google (http://google.com).

Building

Requirements:

• Pandoc
• LaTeX
  • Use BasicTeX, which is a much smaller download than full LaTeX.

Then:

rake

View output:

open pdf/onboarding-packet.pdf
open pdf/get-a-job.pdf

Releasing

To build a new PDF and release it to GitHub:

rake release

Credits

Thank you, contributors!

This repository is maintained by thoughtbot, inc.

License

This information is © 2014 thoughtbot, inc. It is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

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