Checklist: Developing Onboarding/New Hire Practices

Administrative

• Policies and practices developed for hiring new employees (hiring policies and procedures, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and policies, new hire orientation process and agenda, etc.).
• Process in place to record employee/employer receipt of necessary new hire paperwork.
• Process in place to disseminate new hire paperwork to essential departments.
• Practices developed to welcome new employees to the company and department.
• HR procedures developed to ensure payroll and benefit enrollment is completed timely.
  

Training

• Practices in place for a new hire's first day, including meeting with manager, co-workers, tour of facility, lunch, etc.
• The following training presentations developed:
• • "About Our Company and How We Do Things"  
  • "Managing at Our Company" training for new managers
  •  Sexual harassment prevention
  • "Performance Management at Our Company"  
  • Overview of company policies and procedures  
• Mentoring/buddy program established and training provided to mentors/buddies.
• Specialized training necessary for employees to be successful in his or her job developed.
• Communication regarding company annual and long-term goals and objectives prepared.
• Initial employee job goals and objectives established for communication to employee.

Meetings

• Schedule is developed for periodic check-in and training meetings for managers to conduct with new hires.
• Orientation meeting presentations created by each department for new employees to learn about each department and how the new employee's job may relate to those departments.
• Meetings to be scheduled with all internal and external key players involved in the success of the employee in his or her job.

Evaluation

• New hire orientation survey developed, and results reported to senior management team quarterly.
  
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