HR professionals know better than anyone else that first impressions matter. After all, that’s why getting employee onboarding right is so important. But between all the paperwork and red tape involved, making day one a positive experience is often easier said than done.
Like interviewing, new hire onboarding is a team sport. It might be time to rethink who your players are.
At Namely, we try to get as many employees involved in onboarding as possible. We believe that it can’t be entirely up to HR to ensure every new hire’s first day goes off without a hitch. Below are the four parties you need to include in the process.
Leadership Team
The more new employees can interact with company leadership, the more they feel at home and informed. An easy way to incorporate top brass during onboarding is to have department heads attend orientation. If time is at a premium, you might even consider having leadership record introductory videos that new hires can watch on their own time.
New Hire Buddies
Your HR Team
Information Technology
Each of these individuals and teams play a crucial role in creating an employee-centric onboarding process. Out of all these, we often hear that coordinating with IT can be the most challenging. That’s why we’ve teamed up with the experts at Okta for our upcoming webinar, How to Align HR and IT to Streamline Employee Onboarding. We’ll cover how you can bring the two functions together and create a best-in-class new hire experience.
