This guide provides HR professionals with practical best practices for creating a structured and supportive onboarding experience. It outlines why onboarding matters, how to improve the process, and which measures to use to evaluate its success.
Included in this resource:
- Four reasons effective onboarding matters: engagement and job satisfaction, retention, productivity, and a consistent new hire experience
- Six onboarding best practices: starting before day one, personalizing the first 90 days, assigning a buddy, involving and equipping managers, making onboarding a shared responsibility, and gathering feedback to adapt the process
- Guidance on using a 30-60-90 day plan to establish goals, align work with team priorities, and define success during a new hire’s first three months
- Four measures of onboarding success: time to productivity, new hire retention, new hire satisfaction, and completion rates
