How to Onboard New Employees Easily and Effectively 8 Best Practices for Welcoming New Hires
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Fiona Adler, Director, HR Partner Fiona is passionate about helping small and medium businesses get the tools and know-how to grow and streamline their operations. She has worked with SMB’s for over 20 years - creating and building online solutions that help them operate in the best ways possible. With a background in business consulting and an MBA, Fiona knows there is nothing more important than the Human Resources function.
Learn how a strong process for starting new employees can get them up and running faster, with less admin overhead. This article is
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f you’re adding new employees to your team, you probably realise how important it is to have a simple, but effective onboarding process. Starting a new employee well, sets the tone for their employment and can free up your time while allowing them to manage their own onboarding. There’s a lot to consider when onboarding a new employee, but if you have a good process, you can minimise the stress and demonstrate that you and your company are on top of your HR!
2. Use an Onboarding Checklist There are many things that need to happen when you start someone new, and the more that you put these things into a process, the smoother the employee’s onboarding experience will be. A checklist might include things like; documents for employees to provide/upload, forms for the employee to complete (eg bank account details, emergency
contact details), induction video/s for the employee to watch, documents for the employee to read, policies for the employee to sign, specific people for the employee to meet and more. This might seem like a lot, but laying this out in an organised checklist removes the stress and allows employees to work through the items one by one.
1. Communicate Before Your Employee’s First Day Take this scenario: A candidate accepts a job offer with an agreed start date, and then nothing. This can be very disconcerting! To avoid creating this uneasiness, let the employee know that you’ll have a checklist for them to go through once they get started. Clarify any information you’ll need from them in order to make their start smooth (eg their preferred name for their email address). Also, be clear about what to do on their first day - the time you’re expecting them, the dress code, and what they should bring.
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