1. Employee Onboarding
- Is it necessary for all
companies?
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2. A common scenario faced by a new hire
On her first day to office , Amy was guided to her
workstation but then no one turned up !
She didn’t know how to log in to her system.
She didn’t know the people sitting around her. Her
supervisor was nowhere and she had no idea about
what she was expected to do on her first day.
She asked a stranger for help with the printer, only to
later discover that the stranger was the CFO.
She felt highly embarrassed and confused in whom
to approach and what to do!
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3. Effective employee onboarding programs may be time
consuming but they help in employee retention.
Even if you own a small company, it is important that a
new hire is properly introduced to the company.
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4. Statistics
•
90% of the employees who
leave the organization decide
to leave the organization in the
first six months of their
employment.
•
Hiring new employees is three
time costlier than retaining old
employees.
•
Spending time and money on
onboarding to employee
retention is substantially less
expensive compared to hiring
afresh.
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5. Few tips to make Onboarding Effective
Assign Mentors
Share policies
• Make employee
orientation
personal for each
employee
• Consider
assigning mentors
to each new joinee
who can guide
them in their roles
• The perks and the
policies should be
made available on
the company’s
intranet site
• The new
employees should
be taken through
this and questions
answered
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Web based
tools
• Use web based
tools to
standardize,
streamline and
track each step.
• You may even
share this tool
before the
employee joins
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6. Benefits of Onboarding
The organization is committed and fully prepared to put a new
hire in his role effectively.
The process allows a new hire to feel comfortable, valued,
supported and welcomed in the organization.
Onboarding leads to increased employee engagement,
increased productivity and high performance results.
When employees connect to the organization, they want to do
good work and as a result, add value to the organization.
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