Category : Onboarding

Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success

Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success

After effective recruitment and selection, one of the most important ways that organizations can improve the effectiveness of their talent management systems is through the strategic use of onboarding. In this post, we’ll have a look at “onboarding” at a very high level and all the points that ensures maximum success while onboarding new recruits.

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Category : Onboarding

Checklist for your New Hire’s First Day

Checklist for your New Hire’s First Day

First days are terrifying and nothing makes it worse than coming into the office and being received poorly. It is very essential for companies to prepare for their employees’ first day because a well-received recruit is way more likely to continue working in that place for an extended period of time. Here is a simple yet effective 11-Point checklist for your new hires first day. Keep it handy and share if you find it useful.

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Category : Onboarding

5 Things to do for an Engaging Onboarding

5 Things to do for an Engaging Onboarding

We have all been in onboarding sessions that were lengthy beyond reason and monotonous. To make it worse, at the end of the session it leaves you feeling that you haven’t learned anything worthwhile. In this article, we will discuss why it is important to have an engaging onboarding session and 5 strategic ways in which we can make that happen.

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Onboarding should be a Pleasure, not a Pain!

Onboarding should be a Pleasure, not a Pain!

Onboarding is a critical weakness for a majority of organizations that stalls new hire momentum. A poor onboarding experience threatens to disengage enthusiastic employees during their crucial first weeks on the job

From childhood, I’ve been personally haunted by physical forms. Small boxes, short dashes and bad handwriting, well you get the idea!

When we at Heptagon took up the challenge to revolutionize the human resource onboarding experience, I couldn’t have been happier.

Vijay Veera, Co-Founder & CEO, Heptagon.in
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Category : Product

Automate Employee Form Filling | Feature – Digidesk

Automate Employee Form Filling | Feature – Digidesk

What does it take to give the new hires a red carpet welcome that we so often talk about? With over 5,00,000 onboardings successfully done, you can count on us when we say that providing a great onboarding experience starts with a simple step of Automating Onboarding Form Fillings. How? Let’s find out!

Problems with the existing Onboarding System

HR forms and templates make record-keeping and documentation chaotic. There is insufficient communication and coordination between HR teams and employees when using paper-based forms and templates.

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Category : Research

A Great Onboarding Experience Retains Employees

A Great Onboarding Experience Retains Employees

The process of integrating a new employee into an organization is known as onboarding. Onboarding is supposed to be an experience to the new hires, not a process. If the employee feels great throughout the great onboarding experience then they are most likely to stay. This post will be a part of a series of posts where we take one onboarding statistic and break it down to understand the meaning behind it. Here is our onboarding stat of the day.

69% of employees are more likely to stay with a company for three years if they experienced great onboarding

– SHRM

The Current Scenario

Companies often spend a small fragment of time onboarding new hires. With up to 20% of staff turnover occurring within the first 45 days of employment, a standardized onboarding process is essential. After the initial onboarding is complete some companies continue to offer new hires relevant training and development opportunities.

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Category : Onboarding

What is Onboarding? True Meaning by Industry Experts

What is Onboarding? True Meaning by Industry Experts

Purpose of Onboarding

The main purpose of the onboarding program is to introduce new hires to their job, coworkers and the organization and its work culture. Every organization, big or small, prepare their own onboarding plan suiting to their business needs. It is an essential part of human resource management.

There are many ways to effectively orient new employees to a company and position, but certain formalized programs are more beneficial because they are consistent and standardized.

Types of Onboarding

Employee Onboarding

Often referred to as organizational socialization, employee onboarding refers to the process through which new employees gather the necessary knowledge, skills and behavior to become an efficient part of the existing team.

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