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The importance of #onboarding should never be underestimated. The practice of integrating a new #employee successfully into an organisation has implications for every element of the business, from productivity to profitability. However, many organisations are guilty of committing fundamental onboarding mistakes which, while avoidable, are costly in terms of time, money and resources
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Top 5 Employee Onboarding Mistakes
What Not to Do !
Thinking onboarding
begins on day 1!
All too often, workers turn up to their new office only to find they are not expected, no one knows their name and no equipment has been set up in preparation. !This gives a very negative first impression of a company, and one that could leave a new employee questioning their decision.
Too much paperwork
For many the most time consuming element of onboarding is form
completion. Every hour an employ spends signing forms and reading handbooks is an hour which could be spent getting
familiar with their new role, and is an hour in which HR teams lose valuable time to paperwork and administrative
procedures . !
No Centralised
System ! Organisations that frequently bring new talent on board without a central system are at greater risk of human error when onboarding. !The difficulty is that the larger an organisation, the harder it can be to limit this risk, especially if the company is undergoing an intense period of recruitment.
Thinking it’s only up to the new employee
to impress ! You can’t go through the recruitment and onboarding process thinking that new employees are there to impress you, it is a two way street. ! First impressions work both ways: most new staff members who are unhappy in their position will decide to move on within six months, yet those who are satisfied by an effective onboarding and engagement process are likely to stay at least 18 to 20 months before reassessing their role.
Thinking onboarding finishes on
day 1 ! One of the most common mistakes companies make is assuming that once all the preparations have been made and the employee’s first day is over, that onboarding is complete. !When you think how much it costs a business every time it has to advertise, hire and onboard a new person, you quickly see that a substandard onboarding programme is not worth the gamble. !!
The longer a new starter takes to settle into their role, the more they will cost their employer: an IDC report stated that new employees who don’t understand their role cost US and UK companies approximately $37 billion every year!
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