Employee onboarding is defined as the process of getting a new employee familiar with the organisations policies, the employees role in the organisation and the organisations culture. It also involves creating a workplace environment where the new employee is made to feel welcome and comfortable enough to interact freely with their colleagues.
What do the phases of onboarding involve?
Regardless of how a new recruit is onboarded, remote or in person onboarding, the process usually remains the same:
- Pre onboarding starts after the individuals accepts the job offer and ends on their first day of work
- Orientation, starts on the employees first day and involves introducing them to the companies policies, procedures and benefits etc
- Training, this usually lasts the first three months. It gives the new employee the skills, knowledge and resources they need to do their job correctly
- Integration, the final phases of onboarding and helps the new recruit be an engaged member of the team by giving them constant support, feedback and learning opportunities.
What should employee onboarding cover?
- Provide information on company policies and benefits – Provide detailed information regarding company policies and employee benefits on their first day in the business. The materials should include everything from compliance to insurance to tax liabilities to the company policies on leaves and diversity and inclusion. Also, it’s essential to have the employees sign all the documents that formally say they are an employee of the business – asking for these to be digitally signed is also helpful when you are required to onboard remote employees.
- Provide role clarity – Creating a breakdown of the employees daily tasks is important to help them gain clarity about their roles and responsibilities.
- Training – Businesses should start delivering training before an employee’s first day. Basic training documents can be sent across digitally, and employees can be given a breakdown of the training tasks they are expected to complete before they start.
- Help form social connections – Although this should not solely be the responsibility of the manager, it is part of their job to promote communication between new and current employees. This involves creating an environment where colleagues can form social connections.
How can Wise help
Wise provides innovative technology to companies that use drivers in their day to day operations – to save time, money and grow their business.
Through Wise’s onboarding technology, businesses are able to streamline their workforce and get their drivers out on the road as fast as possible.
The Wise Platform enables businesses to onboard drivers in as little as 10 minutes, through:
- Unlimited document storage – Each document and policy drivers have submitted and signed through their Wise drivers app is stored indefinitely on the Wise Platform, to be accessed whenever needed in instances such as requests from carriers or HMRC.
- Bespoke onboarding – We can customise your user onboarding journeys based on specific requirements your business needs for new recruits, such as defining steps, tasks and documents.
- Set jobs roles and employment journeys – Nearly all business consist of more than one role, whether you work with self-employed or employed drivers, Wise can collect specific evidence specifically for that role
We also have a mobile driver app, where drivers are able to submit and sign documents, policies and contracts digitally – no matter where they are!
We’re here to simplify the onboarding and driver management process. If you’re looking for more information, contact us here.
