7 Best Practices of Employee Onboarding

SJ (VP of Customer Engagement)

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Do you want to set up a proper employee on-boarding process? This guide will help you know what the ideal practices of Employee On-boarding should be.  

The hiring process involves a few steps of painstaking efforts and this process must be done carefully and with diligence. It’s just not done by hiring and finalizing the candidate for the profile, it’s beyond that.   

Employee on-boarding is the process when a new employee joins the company with lots of expectations relating to career growth and learning opportunities. Similarly, the company also has expectations from the employee if he/ she could contribute immensely to the growth of the company.  

However, there are some most common mistakes committed by most of the HR employees when on-boarding the new employees into the system. Let’s explore how it can be done better: 

 

  • Clear communication with the prospect employee 

As human resource personnel are the mediators who are responsible to conduct and organize the entire recruitment process, from that perspective the communication held between two parties should be explicit and unambiguous. 

 

  • Well-structured documented process

Many organizations, especially the smaller ones or start-up businesses do not bother to get into the documentation process. 

Perhaps, it is a time-consuming and tedious task at times, but a complete check should be held while hiring a new person.  

It is essential to cross-check the background of the person whether he or she possesses the exact qualification or work experience as mentioned in the interview. Moreover, they should not be involved in unethical activities or any sort of illegal events in the past.  

Documentation should be well-checked and verified before or on the day of joining. 

 

  • Pair the new employee with a team member

When the new employee has joined, it’s always good to pair him/ her with their team members so that they do not feel awkward sitting alone.   

Moreover, the employees who are already working in the system are more knowledgeable about the company culture and can pass on the information to the new joinee.    

 

  • Help them in understanding the company culture

Whenever a person joins the company, they are totally new to the unknown policies and rules of the company.   

So, it’s the sole responsibility of the HR person who is taking care of the entire on-boarding process to inform the company culture to the new employee. 

 

  • Conduct training sessions 

Training is very important at whatever role the employee is undertaking and how well he or she is experienced. 

Organizations have different products/ services and their approach to target the market also differs. Hence, the specific product or service-based training must be conducted so that the new joinee should not miss the important points related to the company goals. 

 

  • Get through the session to know their feedback

After they complete all the necessary training sessions, never forget to take their feedback on the session the new employees have just completed. 

This will allow the company to know what good material they have already introduced in the session or what more needed to be implemented to make the training sessions more productive and helpful in the long run. 

 

  • Follow-up on new employees productivity  

Being in Human Resource recruitment is one of the important roles you beheld as HR personnel, it’s your responsibility to take the periodic feedback of the new employee from their managers.  

This way you can make them more productive by letting them know which areas need improvement and which can be done better in terms of work.   

Conclusion

Employee on-boarding evolves and a consistent process that alters from time to time according to the market trends and industry standards. However, these are some of the best practices that could assist you to organize a well-structured employee on-boarding. On top of it, there are some extremely useful employee on-boarding tips provided by LocalMasters’ trained staff that could help you in managing the workplace activities effectively. 

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