A Successful Employee Onboarding Process
The onboarding process is often overlooked. A new employee needs to have a great experience being onboarded. Currently, 43% of millennials plan to leave their current job within 2 years, so an effective onboarding plan can help a business avoid joining this statistic.
What is Onboarding?
Onboarding refers to integrating a newly hired person seamlessly into a company. It is how an employee becomes familiar with the job role, daily tasks, and the overall environment of the business.
Subsequently, onboarding can be viewed as a crucial approach to ensuring employees feel motivated to navigate their new role. Indeed, this could even be seen as strategic to ensure high employee retention.
Different Onboarding Stages
Optimising the onboarding process is a key strategy to improve your brand image and recruit better candidates. For employers to complete the onboarding process successfully, it is key to follow the different onboarding stages.
1. Pre-Boarding
This stage begins as soon as the candidate accepts the job offer and continues until their first day in the position. This is the stage where the candidate will be uncertain about what lies ahead. Therefore, to help them get prepared, you could send them an employee handbook or video so they get a brief understanding of what their first day might look like.
2. Orientation
The second phase focuses on welcoming new hires into the company and providing an orientation to help them settle in. It is recommended to keep the first day as simple as possible. Share with them the company history, values, benefits. As well as this, introduce them to their direct team, and help them gain a better understanding of the organisation.
3. Training
Without conducting formal training, the candidate might feel lost. Furthermore, having a well-structured training plan will make the individual feel as if the company cares about their development. This means that they are more likely to engage.
4. Transition
This final stage is aimed to help employees transition from a new hire to an engaged employee. Organising a performance review is a good method to recognise their efforts so far, as well as providing advice to help their performance.
Benefits of a Successful Employee Onboarding
- Firstly, if an onboarding is successful, employees are more likely to stay in their positions. As a result of this, the company should prevent future hiring costs.
- Employees who are happier are more productive in their daily tasks. Subsequently, taking the time to nurture a healthy work environment will increase employee engagement.
- Onboarding new employees introduces them to their co-workers early. This will naturally facilitate teamwork.
- Finally, encouraging employees to become more involved in activities will result in greater investment in the company, it’s values, and the brand as a whole.
At Visuna, we are here to support you in your workforce and staffing requirements across the energy and tech sectors.
