HR Staff — First Week
What a new HR staffer or HR manager does in their first week at MASCI.
Welcome to HR. The HR portal is people-and-time at MASCI. Your first week is mostly setup, shadowing, and reading — not solo work. Take the time. HR records are referenced by payroll, audits, and project reviews for years.
- Day 1 — Receive your HR credentials from an admin. Sign in at /hr/login and complete your forced password change.
- Day 1 — Read the public Guidance Center landing once, end to end (15 minutes). You'll see what every portal does.
- Day 2 — Sit with your HR Manager for an hour. Ask them to walk you through their inbox: what arrives daily, what arrives weekly, what's seasonal.
- Day 2-3 — Shadow one full time-verification cycle with your manager before doing one yourself. The cadence matters more than the screen.
- Day 3-4 — Shadow one full new-hire onboarding, paperwork to first-day. Take notes on what feels slow — that's where mistakes happen.
- Day 4-5 — Read the deep HR training articles once. They're long on purpose; skim, bookmark, return when needed.
- End of week 1 — Make a list of every question you didn't ask yet. Ask them. HR is forgiving of 'too many questions early' — much less forgiving of 'pretended to know'.
Why this mattersHR records flow into payroll the same week they're created. A first-week mistake on a time entry is corrected with a 30-second conversation; the same mistake discovered three months later requires a paycheck adjustment, an audit note, and a difficult conversation. Mistakes are cheap in week one. They get expensive fast.
Keep a notebook (paper or app) for the first month. Write down every term, every acronym, every workflow you encounter. Re-read it weekly. By week four you'll have authored your own private HR cheatsheet — and that's worth more than any document we could write for you.
What happens next
- By week 2 you should be doing time-verification independently with manager spot-checks
- By week 4 you should own one onboarding cycle end-to-end
- Bookmark 'Can't sign in?' (public) — you'll need to point new staff at it
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