Real Job Talk · 2024-12-10 · 27 min
We're doing a series of podcast episodes on employee experience! Today’s episode is number 2, which talks about the importance of the onboarding process. This episode is for EVERYONE AND ANYONE who is involved with the onboarding process - managers, leaders, candidates, and interviewers. "Onboarding" is the term used for the plan and process for welcoming someone to a company and getting them trained up for their new role. Onboarding is a, if not THE, critical piece of employee success. According to a Jobvite 2020 survey, 1 in 3 hires leaves a job in the first 90 days. In a Bamboo HR report about onboarding, they found that 70% of people decide if a job is right for them in the 1st 30 days, and 20% decide in the first week. Given these overwhelming stats, onboarding is a critical piece of employee experience, and if not done well, it can lead to attrition, high costs, and overall hits to morale. First impressions are essential, and those first days are crucial in making a first impression about what a job will be like. Onboarding can be broken down into several layers: Paperwork and logistics.
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