How to Optimize your Onboarding Experience for Remote and Hybrid work setup in 2022?

Shivam Kumar10 June 202135 CommentsShare

Do you know that a great onboarding experience can increase the employee retention rate by 82%? While a bad onboarding experience can severely impact the employee retention rate, as per studies bad onboarding experience can make 31% of employees quit within the first six months of their joining.

Having a great employee onboarding experience has only got difficult with the companies adapting to Hybrid and fully remote work cultures. If all this makes you feel anxious, don’t worry we have some practical things you should be looking for in optimizing your onboarding experience so that you don’t miss out on the best talent for your organization.

Onboarding experience begins with the very first day the candidate applies for the job role in your organization. So, this first pro tip for you is to

Shorten your time to hire: This means how much time it takes for your organization to finalize the candidate. A good candidate usually has multiple offers to choose from and can very easily be hired by others in the market, apart from this shortening the time to hire also reduces your time and resources involved in hiring.

Some practical ways you can use to shorten your hiring process are

(a) Using Application Tracking System (ATS) to automate most of the manual tasks involved like:
Posting the job openings
Filtering the most competent candidates via screening resumes
Sending the reminders to the hiring managers over the process
Updating the candidates on their progress in the hiring
Creating and sending the Offer Letters.

These are amongst the most essential features of a good ATS apart from this having a holistic view of all the concurrent hiring positions and also automatically tracking the referrals is something that’s usually not found in the ATS, want to know how TinggIT solves this out?

(b) Standardizing the hiring processes, especially interview rounds as it helps the hiring managers and others involved in the interviewing process to plan beforehand and avoid asking the same questions being asked by the different interviewees.

(c) Leveraging the recruiting agency as a helping hand, though they might not be necessarily the outsourcing partner for you, an external agency can help you get the cream from the 100s of applicants applying for the job role.

Make Onboarding Seamless: The onboarding process involves many tasks which could be overwhelming and easy to miss. So, the best way to deal with them is to have an onboarding plan. Here are the things that you should be focusing on while building your onboarding plan:

(a) Align and assign all the documentation work to the employee so that they can do all of the necessary work within the given time frame.

(b) Organize a welcome gathering to introduce the employee to all the members so that they know whom to approach whenever they have some doubts.

(b) Organize a welcome gathering to introduce the employee to all the members so that they know whom to approach whenever they have some doubts.

(d) Make sure that they have a regular scheduled one-on-one meeting with their managers for analyzing and helping in their work.

(e) Have feedback in regular intervals over the good things and challenges they are experiencing regarding work, support, company culture, etc.

Conclusion

As it is said, the Future of an organization is decided by the employee that works for it. Due to the advent of hybrid working, considerable thought must be given to the onboarding experience. It is no longer possible to rely on traditional office chats to help new hires fit into the company. To bridge the gap between in-office and remote employees, and offer a consistent impressionable experience for both, you need technology that can enable a digital workplace experience that fits your organization.

Book a free demo now to see how simple it is to modernize and streamline your onboarding experience.