Benefits Of Effective Onboarding Process

The benefits of effective onboarding process design are argued on time to productivity and early retention. Both are real and both are hard to isolate.

There is a third benefit that is easy to demonstrate and rarely mentioned. Onboarding is where almost all of your compliance evidence is created.

The information statements issued. The employment terms confirmed in writing. The safety induction delivered and recorded. Policies issued, acknowledged and version-stamped. Training assigned, completed and followed up. Licences and clearances checked and dated.

Every one of those is something an employer may later be asked to produce, and every one is generated in the first fortnight or not at all.

An organisation that cannot show these for a recent starter has a gap that a retention argument will not close.

The Fair Work Ombudsman covers records and statements. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s onboarding management system and records management software.