The onboarding process is a huge stepping stone to improving short- and long-term success for new hires at your company. When done correctly, your new hire(s) will be more inclined to love their job, be passionate about your company and see greater success over the course of their employment. When done incorrectly, new hires are often more likely to experience difficulties in their first few months and leave the organization.
Onboarding is the very first insight new employees get into your company, and it makes or breaks their experience. With years of professional staffing experience, we’re offering our free checklist for new hire onboarding, so you can make a positive first impression from the start and set your employees—and yourself—up for long-term success.
Why You Should Focus on the Employee Onboarding Process
Putting effort and resources into the employee onboarding process ensures that you are investing in the success of your new hires and your company’s long-term goals. Giving new hires the resources they need from the very beginning increases their job satisfaction and makes them more likely to achieve success in their role.
Employee onboarding is especially important because it helps your new hires:
- Seamlessly adapt to your company
- Better meet expectations of the job role
- Merge with company values and culture
- Gain independence and new skills
- Enhance productivity
- Improve engagement, retention, and job satisfaction
As you can see, the job onboarding process is an instrumental part of meeting your company’s long-term goals. So, what should your onboarding process look like to achieve success?
How to Adapt the Onboarding Process to Your Organization
Every company is different and each onboarding process should also be different. Either way, we can give you a good place to start to check off all your bases. Please remember that this free onboarding checklist is a basic list meant to be adaptable to any company, and it’s just the starting point of what your onboarding program should look like. To fully customize it to your needs, you’ll have to adapt certain areas of the onboarding checklist, include company-specific documents, test out your plan and make ongoing changes to keep it applicable and updated.
New Hire Onboarding Checklist
If you don’t already have a new hire onboarding checklist or you need insight on what to add to yours, we detail the various steps you can take in your onboarding plan to achieve success within your company. This checklist should be given to HR, upper management and the person doing the new hire onboarding and training for each employee.
Pre-Arrival (Before the First Day)
- Send an introductory email to your new hire(s), including:
- An employee handbook
- Office information (parking information, where/who they should report on their first day, office map, etc.)
- New hire paperwork
- Important contact information (HR Manager, Direct Supervisor, Team Lead, etc.)
- Set up logins and equipment resources
- Send organization-wide new employee announcement email
- Identify training schedule for first day and week
First Day
- Greet new employee(s) and give tour of building
- Introduce new employee(s) to team members
- Ensure all new hire paperwork is completed
- Send login information and hand out tools/equipment needed
- Present company overview (mission, values, goals, etc.)
First Week
- Ensure new hire gets a rundown of role and job responsibilities
- Train on essential equipment, tools and programs used
- Set up a meeting with manager to determine performance goals
First Month
- Keep training ongoing as long as needed
- Use mentors for certain job learning
- Set up regular check-ins with manager
- Invite to team meetings
- Partake in projects
Need Help with Hiring?
Now that you have the beginning of your onboarding process figured out with our free new hire checklist, you may need help finding new employees in the first place. Here at Strom Minnesota, our recruiters are well-versed in the staffing industry and can help you find the right placements for your open positions. With a large database to draw from and expansive social circles, we’ll help you find new hires faster.
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