Five essential tips to elevate your candidate onboarding experience

Onboarding is usually the first touchpoint you have with a new hire, and it can say a lot about your recruitment agency. Whether you are exec search, perm or labour hire, it pays to get it right. Here are five tips for an elevated candidate onboarding experience. Access Group explains.

Go digital

Paper is clunky for everyone .For your candidate, there is the hassle of printing and scanning. Then comes the work for your team, chasing late or missing documents, uploading, data entry and secure storage.

Not only is this incredibly time-consuming, but it leaves the process open to human error and makes it hard to maintain compliance.

Ideally, your recruitment solution should offer candidates a single port of call, from contracts and induction videos to payroll data, making it easy for candidates to get everything done on time and ready to hit the ground running.

Make it easy. Make it mobile.

Manual data entry or downloading and uploading between systems cause unnecessary delays and create additional steps for the candidate.

If your onboarding process isn’t mobile-friendly, you’re probably losing candidates. Your candidates should be able to complete the process on the go, anytime, anywhere, making it simple for them and improving your turnaround times.

Automated communication is another factor to consider to help make onboarding effortless for your team. From reminders to notifications, you can guide candidates through the process and keep them on track without taking up any of your team’s time.

Keep it moving

While onboarding is a necessary part of the process, the formalities and paperwork aren’t usually the highlights of starting a new job, so keep things moving.

It’s a good idea to get started before the candidate starts work to avoid delays while paperwork is processed. Time is of the essence.

Ensure security

We’ve all experienced the annoyance of a forgotten password when we want to jump in and get something done fast.

With Onboarded, your candidates don’t need to worry about this. The experience is completed entirely through a single unique and secure URL no usernames or passwords are required.

Make it engaging and relevant

Video can be a great tool to keep candidates engaged, but organisations often use one set of videos for every role, leaving a new hire with hours and hours to view with little relevant learning.

Tailoring the experience for the role is a great way to keep the candidate engaged and ensure they have the correct information to get started on the job.

Whether you are onboarding ten candidates or 10,000, a digital solution is a must-have in today’s market. It saves you time and money while delivering a winning candidate experience, so it’s a no-brainer.

Ready to improve your candidate onboarding experience?

Pre-hire checks, inductions, contracts, e-signatures you name it, Onboarded handles it all.

To learn more, visit Access Onboarded | Access Recruitment ANZ