Early Engagement Insights and Best Practices
Key Takeaways
⇨ The recruiting and onboarding experiences have a decisive impact on employee engagement, beginning even before their first day on the job.
⇨ Thoughtful, standardized onboarding processes can significantly boost new hire productivity, emphasizing the importance of early engagement.
⇨ Integrating feedback mechanisms and modern HR technologies into recruiting and onboarding ensures a positive experience that fosters long-term commitment and productivity.
Employee engagement – or disengagement — starts before day one on the job.
That’s right: engagement before your employees even meet their teammates, their recruiting and onboarding experience will influence their future commitment, productivity and cultural impact.
Notice, we aren’t saying the recruiting and onboarding experiences can influence employees’ future engagement. They will. While statistics vary by year and study, an aggregated review suggests that:
• Around 50% of job seekers drop out of hiring processes that take too long or that they deem too
arduous.
• More than half of job seekers share publicly or with peers when they undergo bad hiring experiences,
negatively impacting employer brands.
• New hires onboarded in a thoughtful and standardized way are around 60% more productive.
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These are only a few of many stats that highlight the influence of early engagement.
So it’s important for hiring managers to wield that influence wisely.
Get to know your candidates’ and new hires’ experience
Candidate experience is the way potential employees perceive your hiring process. The new hire experience is how incoming employees feel about the early days of employment. Every touchpoint between the individual and your organization during these vulnerable times has huge power to bolster or derail their experience.
So, in the vein of “stapling yourself to an order,” consider stapling yourself to your hiring and onboarding process. Get to know the touchpoints involved. Do they engage your prospective and early talent? Do they set them (and your organization) up for success? What tools and technologies underpin them? How can you improve each moment, nurture great candidates, and smoothly onboard new hires?
Learn more with the whitepaper from Hrizons.
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