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Retention | Are you losing new starters too soon?

Are you losing new starters too soon?
Are you losing new starters too soon?

After providing a stellar recruitment service to attract and select the ideal candidate and have them accept your offer if your new recruit fails to attend on their first day, it’s frustrating and costly.

How to reduce the chances of this could be as simple as ensuring you have a robust onboarding process in place - working to keep new hires warm before they join you.

Review your onboarding process through the experience of the candidate. Look at each stage from reference collection to offer acceptance and document signing. Getting references promptly is a significant time consumer for many recruitment teams so review your SLA’s too. Simplifying this part of the process alone can speed up the time to hire and could help to prevent new starters from getting snapped up by the competition.

Checklist to effective onboarding

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