How to successfully onboard a new hire

Finding the best candidates and making them sign the contract is only the first step. If you want your new hire to stay, then you need to ensure you give them a good onboarding experience.

“Some organisations think that onboarding starts when the candidate walks through the door, but I would suggest that you need to start when the candidate has accepted the role,” Andy Sumner, Managing Director UK and Ireland at Monster, says to Executive Grapevine.  

He argues that companies should give new hires access to their intranet from the moment that they’ve signed the contract, in order to ensure that they have access to as much information as possible, including access to online training tools.

“I think it is also important to make it really personal,” Sumner continues. “So the other thing that we do is to get people to come in and get a personal introduction with their team and make it friendly, warm and welcoming. Make sure that they are familiar with some of the cultural things, like dress code.”