What was your onboarding like and what should a proper onboarding look like?

I am the first data analyst at my non-profit and I was pretty much thrown into immediate, priority tasks with very little explanation of what the non-profit's processes are, what fields are used, what these fields actually mean. They also hired me knowing that I was new to their domain but basically left me to play telephone for the first several months as I tried to fill data requests, understand what was where or what was even possible, and verify …

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