The Business Bulletin
Onboarding new employees efficiently, effectively and enthusiastically! Introducing new employees to your business is a key part of the hiring process, but one often overlooked. Once you’ve picked the right person, it’s easy to forget that they need a proper and thorough introduction to the company in order to be able to start work effectively.
Onboarding should equip
more onboarding than others, but
average new hire costs a company
employees for their best possible
every job should have a sufficient
£3,000, so unless you have a huge
performance right from the ‘off ’,
introduction to both the company,
HR budget, it should be done
and there are ways to structure a
the team and the role.
only when really needed. Market
programme of induction to help ensure all bases are covered.
What exactly is onboarding? Onboarding is an HR term used to describe the introduction or induction programme into a business. An onboarding process includes every interaction with a new employee right through from issuing a job offer to them undergoing training, workplace socialisation, and
research has shown that thorough
Why should businesses have an onboarding programme?
onboarding can increase staff retention by up to 82%.
onboarding processes in order to
Proper onboarding avoids mistakes later on
welcome new employees to the
Onboarding staff ensuring they’re
workforce. There are numerous
sufficiently trained to avoid mistakes
benefits to implementing proper
further on in their career. Often
induction. These include, but are by
errors made during work are as a
no means limited to:
result of a throwaway comment or
All businesses should have thorough
miscommunication early on and can be prevented with thorough
could include regular check-in calls
Recruiting staff is pricy. Done properly, it needn’t be repeated
before the employee’s start date,
Recruiting staff is always more
mandatory training, job shadowing
expensive than retaining staff, so it
and/or social events with existing
needs to be done effectively in order
It helps to introduce and socialise staff
employees. Some roles require
to avoid having to recruit again! The
Onboarding also helps to ‘gel’ the
starting work. A typical onboarding programme
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training immediately upon joining an organisation.
