Employee Onboarding Best Practices 2018

Jane Bush
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On Aug 1, 2018
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Employee Onboarding Best Practices 2018

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that onboarding can’t start until the employee is physically on your premises. Most prospective employees are anxious to learn as much as they can about their new organization and the people they’ll be working and interacting with. Today’s technology makes it possible to connect and engage with employees from the moment they accept your offer. Organizations used to think of onboarding as the automation of paperwork – a “set it and forget it” approach focused on ensuring all the new-hire documentation was completed in a timely fashion. But nowadays, in an increasingly competitive talent landscape, where employees determine whether to stay at a new job within their first six months, onboarding must play a much more important and expanded role focused on employee activation and retention. The first day on a new job is always stressful. Employers can make it easier on new recruits by providing them with the tools they need to get up to speed quickly and feel like a member of the team from the moment they walk in the door. If you’ve defined your company’s core values, they need to be infused into employees’ everyday lives. Companies with best onboarding practices have created values cards for each employee to remind them to hold these attributes in high regard. When that new employee shows up for their first day, they begin the process of getting to know the team and your company’s culture, understanding their role, setting up their tools, and getting settled into their work. It’s not unusual for this process to take months, as there’s a lot to learn. First, make sure that the company’s mission and values are within your onboarding process. And this goes beyond having them on a powerpoint slide or a poster. Think about how can you provide examples and bring these values to life. Can you do a scavenger hunt? Can you have people come in and talk to them? Things like that will be really important. Employee onboarding begins as soon as a candidate accepts an employer’s offer and continues as they become “onboarded” into the company as an employee. Onboarding tasks range from completing new hire paperwork to learning the company software and systems, meeting the team, setting new hire performance goals and everything in between! Onboarding either makes or breaks your new hires. Did you know that companies without an onboarding plan only have a 1 in 2 chance of retaining the new employee? Having an onboarding plan pays off, because employees are 58% more likely to be with the company for at least 3 years if they went through an onboarding plan.

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