Why automating onboarding can help retain top talent
Employees are an indispensable resource – and
in this competitive hiring market, companies can’t afford turnover. So now more
than ever, businesses must work on retaining their best employees to ensure they’re
running as effectively and efficiently as possible.
There are many ways companies can do this,
but getting started out of the gate with a thorough and welcoming
onboarding process is one of the best ways to show your employees what they
mean to your business. They’ll know that you value them and they’ll be eager to
stick around longer.
Of course, onboarding can be time-consuming,
but luckily, the latest HR
technology can help you establish a systematized approach to onboarding while
carefully monitoring all of its important aspects.
Here are five ways investing automation of in
your onboarding process can help you retain your top talent:
Establish a single source of
communication
The fast pace of modern tech development
has made it difficult for companies to keep track of all the channels where
they can find new employees. Oftentimes, candidates will contact businesses
through multiple channels when searching for jobs making it challenging to
track communication and new applicants throughout all the platforms.
Additionally, it’s difficult to assess potential employees and manage them for
proper onboarding.
To help with this process, you can use
software solutions like assessment software to store and manage
applications in a single database. That way, you won’t have to work across multiple
platforms.
Automate sourcing and screening
tasks
Artificial intelligence is making its way
into various software solutions like applicant tracking systems, time clock
software, and others. And when it comes to onboarding and hiring new employees,
it can help HR pros immensely. Here is how:
Giving responses to applicants
When there’s a large volume of applicants,
like with bulk hiring, onboarding managers may find it a challenge to respond
to all of them. In these situations, an AI-powered onboarding software can help
generate proper responses and send them automatically.
Performing sourcing and screening
AI software can also help with screening
and sourcing. Through its understanding of job requirements, it can look for
candidates that meet the criteria, shortlist them and rank them properly. This
allows managers to quickly determine which candidates to focus on first.
Getting all relevant information
AI has the power to gather information
about candidates and store it in a structured manner. This structure makes it easier
for HR reps to assess candidates based on the stored data.
Evaluate candidate qualifications
One of the more tedious tasks for hiring
managers is to go through many applications and narrow down the list to people
who are qualified to do the job. Modern technology gives HR managers the
information they need to evaluate candidates based on knowledge, skills,
experience, employment, history, and other relevant information – all displayed
on one dashboard. From there, they can take it one candidate at a time.
Sorting applicants
Some HR solutions come with features,
functionalities and options that make testing candidates easier, giving
objective results that can tell managers whether someone would be a good fit
for the company. Instead of just relying on their subjective opinions, managers
can use these solutions to give unbiased scores and make better hiring
decisions.
Furthermore, these tools allow managers to
sort candidates using different criteria such as:
- Career achievements
- Portfolios
- Education level
- Various demographic factors
- Work experience
Selecting top candidates
Even though applicants are already sorted
neatly, it’s important to narrow down the list and choose only the candidates
who best match your requirements. To do this, you will have to evaluate them in
a meaningful way. A software solution can save time at this step by providing
personalized aptitude test features and quiz makers you can use for your evaluations.
Improve employee onboarding
Technology can help speed up the onboarding
process by automating manual tasks that are time-consuming. Automation allows
managers to send out all applications and onboarding forms to new hires as soon
as they get the job so that employees get all the paperwork done before coming
in to work. At the same time, the software can send onboarding managers
notifications about which employees have finished their documentation and which
haven’t.
With these more
monotonous tasks out of the way, onboarding managers can focus on more
important aspects of onboarding: They can engage new hires, tell them about
their new workplace and get to know them better.
Follow-up
While it’s important to make the onboarding
process smooth, the story of retaining employees doesn’t end there. After
someone has joined your team, follow up with proper practices to keep them
engaged.
Providing employee development
To most employees, the prospect of growing
as professionals and acquiring new skills is just as important as the work
they’re doing. With the help of HR training software, or learning
management solutions, managers can instantly offer lessons, courses, and
training. With training software, it’s easier to create personalized training
and adjust it to the employees’ level of knowledge.
Getting feedback from your
employees
Listening to your employees is essential as
it shows that you value their opinions and promote transparency within your
company culture. HR training software can be used to gather
feedback about courses and other essential issues. This information is then shared
privately with the manager.
Establishing good onboarding practices will
not only help your business handle the hiring process more efficiently, but it
will also help you choose the right people and retain them. Engaged employees will stay a lot
longer because they find their work meaningful in some way – so grabbing their
attention right at the onboarding process will go a long way in keeping them
satisfied.
In this digital age, using modern software
solutions that offer advanced functionalities can advance your business in a
lot of ways. While it can be a bit of an investment, training software and
onboarding platforms will pay for themselves in the end by freeing up busy HR
professionals to focus on the more ‘human’ elements of the job.
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