Hybrid workforce | What's the new reality for onboarding and the candidate experience?

A more hybrid workforce is increasingly becoming the new norm.

How do you ensure your onboarding experience delivers for all your new starters, when 50% may not spend a single day on site for the foreseeable? What can you do to ensure that they understand their role, objectives, and place within their team? How can you empower them to build strong working relationships throughout your organisation, and make sure they are fully embedded in your culture? We explore some of the solutions – at the heart of which is a digital platform to host personalised content and facilitate network building.

Ask the experts – those you’ve onboarded this year

New starters who have joined your organisation since March 2020 will be a wealth of invaluable information. Use it. Survey them, asking which parts of your onboarding process worked well, and which didn’t. What were the gaps, problems and challenges? (Lack of IT support? Isolation from colleagues? Difficulty of teamwork?). As well as telling you what you need to do more and less of, such surveys also provide an opportunity for the recently onboarded to share new ideas on ways they think the experience could be improved in the new normal.