Engineering Onboarding Buddy Language Collocations
Practise the standard verbs for assigning buddies and building confidence in new hires.
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Fill in: 'Each new hire is ___ a buddy for their first month.'
We 'assigned a buddy' — the standard onboarding collocation. 'Given out', 'handed' and 'set' are awkward or informal in this HR-adjacent context.
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Fill in: 'The buddy helps the new hire ___ their way around the codebase.'
We 'find one's way around' — the idiomatic phrase for learning to navigate something new. 'Make', 'get' and 'take' don't complete this fixed expression correctly.
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Fill in: 'Buddies ___ regular check-ins during the first few weeks.'
We 'schedule check-ins' — the standard collocation for arranging regular meetings. 'Fix', 'set up front' and 'book in' are less natural phrasings here.
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Fill in: 'A good buddy will ___ questions the new hire feels awkward asking in public.'
We 'field questions' — the standard collocation for handling them as they come. 'Catch', 'take up' and 'handle out' are not idiomatic here.
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Fill in: 'By the end of onboarding, the buddy should ___ confidence in the new hire.'
We 'build confidence' — the standard collocation. 'Make', 'form' and 'grow up' don't pair idiomatically with confidence in this sense.