What is it about?
Why is it important?
➡️ The onboarding phase is crucial in integrating new employees. The goal is to ensure that new team members feel welcome, embrace the company culture, and quickly become autonomous in their tasks.
➡️ The challenge is to create an efficient process that saves time while fostering engagement and a sense of belonging within the team.
3 actions to implement right now
1️⃣ Create a formal process for onboarding new employees
- Be aware of when the integration of a new recruit begins (From the first contact with our recruitment team? Upon signing the employment contract? Upon the new employee's arrival?)
- Anticipate actions to be taken before the new hires arrive
- Plan activities for their first days
- Provide follow-up support
2️⃣ Create an Employee Handbook
Develop a manual that includes everything a new employee might need: the company's values and objectives, details about the team, information about compensation, decision-making processes, leave policies, etc.
3️⃣ Don't overlook the first day of a new employee in the company!
Advice from the article mentioned below:
"The first day is your chance to be who you said you were in the hiring process."
"Make sure their office is set up and they have all the tools they need."
📚 For further reading
📖 Employee Onboarding at Startups Is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It
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In this article, the author particularly presents the 4 dimensions of the onboarding process:
- Understanding one's mission ⇒ what is the employee's role in the company and how will their position add value by completing various projects/tasks assigned to them.
- Training ⇒ how to ensure their skill development enables them to fulfill their mission and grow.
- Social integration ⇒ helping the employee build a network within the company for personal and professional fulfillment.
- Alignment with the company culture ⇒ how to make the employee perceive the uniqueness of the company they are joining, with its values, methods, rituals... and get them to adopt them.
📖 Onboarding: How Qonto Welcomed More Than 100 Talents in One Year?
📖 Onboarding: The Process at Memo Bank
This process operates under a "Remote First" approach.
📘 Examples of Employee Handbooks
Slite
Glitch
Blendle’s Employee Handbook
→ The document is created on Notion and can be duplicated as a template:
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