Ensuring a strong onboarding experience is crucial for keeping new hires engaged and committed from day one. According to CareerBuilder companies that lack a formal onboarding process have a 14% higher workforce turnover. So, here are 5 things you should do to ensure a strong onboarding.

1. Set Up Their Workspace

Ensure a new starter’s workspace is fully set up with all the necessary equipment, including any equipment and technology they might need. Make sure they have access to the systems and tools they’ll require to avoid any delays with the new starter carrying out their job. Around 77% of employees believe that easy access to information helps keep them productive and engaged.

2. Provide Clear Orientation

Give a comprehensive tour of the office, showing important areas. Alongside which introduce your new starter to other teams and the wider company, helping them to feel immediately welcomed and integrated. Explaining how the hire’s role fits in with other business areas can help them to understand more about the organisation and how their position and responsibilities fits into the bigger picture.

3. Structured Training

It’s important to not overwhelm a new starter with information, processes, systems and training on their first day, instead pace training over several weeks. Ensure they have the right amount of information to Provide a deck of materials and helpful resources so they can refer to them and review them when needed.

4. Warm Welcome

It might sound simple but as a hiring manager it’s key to greet the new starter yourself and make them feel welcome and comfortable from the start. Provide the starter with company branded merchandise if available to make them feel part of the team.

5. Check-In

A new hire’s first day can be quite intense so having a check-in at the end of the first day will show as an employer you are paying attention and fully invested in not only their onboarding process but their future at the company.

It’s vitally crucial to adapt onboarding strategies for remote new starters too. However, using these 5 things as pointers will contribute to a strong onboarding strategy, whichever way it is happening. Ultimately this will ensure new hires feel welcomed, supported, and ready to contribute from day one.

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