Info Centre
The Best Onboarding Practices for New Employees
The Best Onboarding Practices for New Employees
What is Onboarding?
Onboarding is the process of introducing a new employee into the company. This includes meeting the rest of the team, being given the information and equipment needed to do the job. It also involves ensuring the employee fully understands their role and responsibilities within the company.
Be communicative from the beginning
Throughout the onboarding process you want to be communicative to ensure your new recruit is well informed and looking forward to starting. There are several ways to do this:
- You need to send them the official paperwork, but why not send a welcome/congratulation card as well to warmly welcome them into the company.
- Send a welcome pack and handbook well in advance of their start date to ensure they have enough time to understand what is required.
- Give them any tools, equipment, software, email account, company phone etc that they'll need to do their job.
- If they'll be working in the office, make sure you’ve sorted them a designated workspace for when they start.
What to address on their first day?
You want to make their first day a personal, helpful and informative experience. There are several things you should go through on their first day:
- Make sure they understand their role, and their responsibilities within the company.
- Go through their personal plans and goals.
- Talk them through any software or technology they'll need to know how to use.
- Introduce them to the office team as well as the senior team. This is important to help integrate them into the company culture, and for them to build lasting and strong working relationships.
- Give them any essential office training, ie, office protocols, fire safety, office health and safety etc.
You want your new employee to walk away from their first day aware of their role and responsibilities. They should have an idea who their colleagues are and who to go to for help. Finally, they should have everything they need to be able to work sufficiently.
Follow up the onboarding process
- Try and have regular check-ins with your new employee, especially within the first weeks of them being there. It's important to see how they are getting on, and if they need help. It also means you can track their progress, and if they're successfully working towards their goals.
- Once your new recruit is settled in, ask for their feedback about your onboarding process, this is a great way of keeping up to date and improving your onboarding process.
If you would like some more information, check out our website for our blog on the best ways to onboard remotely.
Stay Safe,
Team Affecto.