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Onboarding Spotlight: Optimising The Employee Experience At Life Without Barriers
Let’s explore how the team reduced their onboarding process from 2 ½ weeks to only 4 days – whilst maintaining best practice compliance.
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Onboarding School Staff 101
School HR teams across the nation are taking a collective breath and diving into their peak recruitment drive to secure the best staff for the year ahead. Some lucky recruiters, like the team at Scotch College Adelaide, are going into this prepared. Others are already...
Meet the new look HROnboard 🎉
Today we’re thrilled to announce a new look for HROnboard. For the last 5 years, our team has been creating amazing software to improve employee onboarding. As we’ve grown, so has our solution. Our foundation of building amazing new starter onboarding solutions...
4 ways our new JobAdder integration can save you time
Manually re-entering information about a candidate during onboarding that has already been collected in the recruitment process is a waste of time. It also provides room for error and further precious time wasted to correct mistakes or worse, losing a great candidate....
Onboarding Spotlight: Optimising the Employee Experience at Life Without Barriers
Life Without Barriers'(LWB) purpose is to partner with people to change their lives for the better. As one of Australia’s leading social purpose organisations - the 5,600 strong team operates in more than 440 communities and support over 18,000 people living in their...
Introducing: A better way to manage employee journeys
We're thrilled to announce that customers can now manage more than just employee onboarding journeys in Welcomes. Whether it’s a significant life event such as parental leave or the logistics of an office move, you are now able to create, manage and personalise...
We’re hitting the road this winter…
For a great employee experience, you must have an amazing onboarding journey. How do you know if your onboarding stacks up? And how is technology enhancing the onboarding experience before day one and beyond? Join us and leading HR teams as we explore the...
Onboarding School Staff 101
School HR teams across the nation are taking a collective breath and diving into their peak recruitment drive to secure the best staff for the year ahead. Some lucky recruiters, like the team at Scotch College Adelaide, are going into this prepared. Others are already...
Onboarding Roundup – April
Each month I collect interesting real life stories, news items and thought leadership around everything related to employee onboarding. Here's what I found in April. A hundred ways to get fired by Hyatt Hyatt Hotels and Resorts CEO tells the story of how a heavy focus...
How to engage new employees before day one
Frustrating employee onboarding experiences often start with good intentions. Hardworking HR teams create a series of manual reminders in an attempt to keep new starters engaged before their first day. Follow-up text messages, emails, phone calls and welcome packs...
What HR teams should know about paperless onboarding
Creating an automated, personalised onboarding experience for new hires is no longer a nice-to-have, it's a necessity. And the reasons are compelling - with HR teams across Australia reducing their time to hire by an average of 54%. How did these teams go from paper...
Getting the basics of onboarding right
With recent research highlighting to the undeniable benefits of an engaged workforce, it’s important for HR teams to ensure that staff feel engaged with the company vision and culture before day one. The first step for many HR teams seeking to drive engagement is to...
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[Webinar] Discover the 5 Pillars of a Great Employee Onboarding Program
To drive new hire engagement and early retention, leading HR teams are now creating meaningful welcomes that go beyond back-office tasks. Join us in this webinar to learn about the five pillars that can help you build and implement an experience-driven new hire...
Recontracting Employees? Here’s what you need to know.
Recontracting or crossboarding employees en masse can happen quickly and is often in response to a pressing business need. Crossboarding covers a vast set of business use cases; from re-contracting existing employees to reissuing compliance policies. Knowing how to...
Why offboarding matters – the benefits of a great goodbye
It’s never easy saying goodbye. A new hire can quickly become an integral part of the team, and every team member brings with them a unique set of skills and traits. People inevitably move on and take with them many of the valuable skills that you’ve nurtured along...
3 Key Metrics Managers Use to Measure Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is a hot topic in HR circles, and for good reason. With recent studies drawing the link between employee engagement and business performance results, the importance of having an engagement strategy in place is becoming more and more apparent....
The Secret to Hiring a Gold Medal Team
With all of the festivities in Rio now over, it's going to be four years until we'll see the next batch of Gold Medal teams performing in their areas of athletic expertise. But that doesn't mean we can't learn from these elite athletes to build our own Gold Medal...
10 Things to see at HR Tech World London
The Spring HR Tech World Congress is going to be an exciting time: Keynote speakers from all over the world, the latest tech in the HR space, and discussions on all things HR. The agenda is chocked full of interesting events, panels, and discussions. To make things...
What we can learn from Star Wars about onboarding
Either you love Star Wars or you're wrong. It's the undergraduate Dune fanfiction that turned into a merchandising machine close to our hearts. There are many things to be learned from the Star Wars Universe. With almost 40 years of history, and countless entries to...
The Top 10 Takeaways from #HRTF15
With #HRTF15 wrapping up for another year, here are our best moments from the conference. There were so many great speakers, amazing new products, and discussions to be had with other HR pros. Here are just some of the biggest topics talked about and what was being...
Onboarding School Staff 101
School HR teams across the nation are taking a collective breath and diving into their peak recruitment drive to secure the best staff for the year ahead. Some lucky recruiters, like the team at Scotch College Adelaide, are going into this prepared. Others are already...
We’re hitting the road this winter…
For a great employee experience, you must have an amazing onboarding journey. How do you know if your onboarding stacks up? And how is technology enhancing the onboarding experience before day one and beyond? Join us and leading HR teams as we explore the...
Celebrating 100,000 new employee welcomes!
We’re thrilled to announce that this month, we reached the incredible milestone of 100,000 new starters accepting their job through HROnboard. Keep an eye out on Twitter & LinkedIn over the coming weeks as we share some of the epic #onboardingstories from new...
4 ways Retail Zoo improved their seasonal new hire retention
With the end of winter just a few short weeks away, the inevitable countdown to summer trading begins. Businesses in the retail and hospitality sector alike are ramping up for the annual holiday hiring drive. As always, HR can expect a lot of extra work to support...
Retail Employee Onboarding Best Practices with Retail Zoo
For those who don't know Retail Zoo, they're the ones who own big time Aussie success stories Boost Juice, Salsas Fresh Mex and CIBO Espresso. With hundreds of stores across Australia, Retail Zoo, like most businesses in retail and hospitality, have a high demand for...
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“Loved it! Can’t wait to start” – The NOVA Entertainment Onboarding Experience [Webinar]
Sometimes it's hard to know whether your new hires are really engaged and excited for their new role. Unless, of course, you're using HROnboard, in which case your new hires will actually tell you! "Loved it!!! So efficient, easy to follow, concise and clear. Well...
4 ways our new JobAdder integration can save you time
Manually re-entering information about a candidate during onboarding that has already been collected in the recruitment process is a waste of time. It also provides room for error and further precious time wasted to correct mistakes or worse, losing a great candidate....
May Product Update: Introducing the Contract Template Library & Offboarding Flexibility
In our April release, we announced the new Offer Pack Library feature - a better way for teams to self-manage contracts, policies and documents that form a job offer. This week, we’ve released enhancements to this feature for users to utilise this powerful tool...
Sometimes you need a gentle reminder
We’ve all had the same experience. You’ve sent an offer to a candidate and are waiting with baited breath, which soon escalates to frustration when they haven’t completed the compliance forms. You're chasing payroll or IT to check if they’ve completed a critical...
HROnboard Gummy Bears Update
While our Gummy Bears release might appear soft and squishy on the outside - it is packed full of really gooey-goodness! Let's take a look at the latest updates in our first release for 2018. Task Reporting In this Gummy Bears release, we've enhanced Task Management...
HROnboard Liquorice Bullets Update
Liquorice Bullets is our 11th release for 2017! In our Liquorice Bullets release, we’re continuing our efforts to streamline functionality in HROnboard. We’re adding new functionality to 'Tasks', allowing them to be re-assigned to a new user or role. We've added new...
HROnboard Pineapples Update
Pineapples is our 10th release for 2017! In pineapples, we’re continuing our efforts to streamline functionality in HROnboard. We’re simplifying how tasks are managed and presented for both back office users and new starters, adding a new Aurion integration, as well...