Silkroad

MARCH 14, 2018

We’re excited to welcome back Aptitude Research Partners to SilkRoad Connections 2018. This is the journey we traditionally think of as Onboarding. It has a tactical, compliance workflow, but it also needs a cultural and strategic workflow, making sure that the energy and promise of new hires is harnessed from the start.

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JUNE 5, 2018

The downfall for most companies is their failure to extend the excitement and momentum generated in the candidate experience to the onboarding experience. According to a Department of Labor study , 69 percent of new hires that take part in a structured onboarding process are likely to remain with a company for longer than three years.

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JUNE 12, 2018

While the concept of onboarding isn’t new and many organizations have some form of onboarding process in place, its meaning and application have changed. Onboarding doesn’t just consist of a new hire’s first 30, 60, or 90 days. To download the When, Why, & How of Onboarding for Results, click here.

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JULY 12, 2018

As an organization with a high hiring velocity, Accenture faced challenges with their mostly manual onboarding process which consisted of emails and spreadsheets and ultimately became unworkable at scale. Accenture partnered with SilkRoad to build a more cohesive, streamlined, and strategic new hire experience.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

In years past, many organizations viewed onboarding as a transactional process comprised of new hire paperwork and time spent orienting to company policies. Other highlights include: Applying onboarding to employee transitions. Impact of onboarding maturity on key business indicators and new hire attrition.

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Silkroad

DECEMBER 12, 2018

When an onboarding process at a company is strategic, flexible and user-driven employees are more engaged and thus stay longer, allowing a business to save money. Whether that’s modernizing long-standing businesses or catapulting start-ups, automating your onboarding will protect the very thing you can’t survive without … your employees.

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Silkroad

AUGUST 21, 2018

For many organizations, retaining new hires is becoming more important than ever. The productivity, morale, and monetary losses of new hire attrition have always been a concern, but finding the right caliber of talent in today’s talent economy is becoming harder and harder. Retention starts with onboarding.

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Brandon Hall

MAY 7, 2018

According to Brandon Hall Group’s 2018 Talent Acquisition Technology Survey, onboarding is one of the top three talent acquisition-technology priorities for organizations over the next 12 to 24 months. This enthusiasm for onboarding was evident at the SilkRoad Connections 2018 Conference.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to SilkRoad’s 2018 Global Strategic Onboarding Trends Survey , the key to attracting and keeping talent in a tough market is to engage them from the point of offer acceptance. Strategic onboarding goes beyond compliance to create and deliver an intentional experience that aligns with distinct organizational objectives.

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Silkroad

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

NCSOFT , a leading online gaming publisher, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Silver Award for excellence in the Best New Hire Onboarding Program category. NCSOFT leveraged feedback from their employee engagement survey which identified opportunities for improvement in their onboarding experience.

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Silkroad

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Within the onboarding technology space, there are generally two types of solutions: data-first and people-first strategies. A people-first solution manages forms and workflows to maintain compliance and the completion of necessary tasks, but it goes beyond to engage new hires, connecting them to the organization, its culture, and its mission.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

{Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Lilith Christiansen, VP, Onboarding Solutions at SilkRoad and author of Successful Onboarding.}. To get started, consider SilkRoad’s top three must-know onboarding trends for 2018: Personalizing. Interpersonal network development.

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Silkroad

AUGUST 14, 2018

According to a recent study from Brandon Hall Group , “One of the big trends in onboarding is that high-performance organizations are acquiring a dedicated onboarding system at a faster pace than other organizations.” The post How to Choose the Right Onboarding System for Your Organization appeared first on SilkRoad.

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Silkroad

APRIL 16, 2019

An “always on” onboarding approach to workforce readiness can support your talent at every stage of change. So you think you know onboarding? Traditional onboarding really was about a checklist – orientation, done; forms, done. Today’s onboarding has expanded to do so much more. Here’s something most people don’t know.

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Silkroad

OCTOBER 23, 2018

When people think about onboarding, the first picture that comes to mind is often filling out forms. That’s not strategic onboarding … that’s data management. It’s incredibly important, but it’s not strategic onboarding. An integrated approach should include: Collecting the new hire information you need.

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Silkroad

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Talent Activation starts with strategic onboarding. An employee-first, continuous onboarding experience that activates employees to business goals – from source to new hire through every transition along the journey. For more information about SilkRoad Onboarding, click here.

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JUNE 19, 2017

At the annual SilkRoad Connections conference in Orlando, (Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Alexandra Levit of Inspiration at Work).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Gallup research shows that “those who have one or more strong partnerships at work generate better customer scores, safety, retention, creativity, productivity, and profitability for their companies” Exemplary onboarding programs view relationship building as a strategic and intentional sustained investment in the new hire experience.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Much of the “buzz” about strategic onboarding talks about benefits to employers: faster new hire productivity, tight connections between business goals and roles and high engagement that helps retain new employees. But what about the benefits to new hires? Onboarding strategies offer big wins for new hires.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

’s onboarding experience consisted of 83 pieces of paper per new hire. They wanted a more streamlined approach that put downward pressure on the amount of time and paper it took for new hires to become productive, whether new hires began their day at an office or in the field. Previously, Wood.’s

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Essential to the success of United is hiring and developing talented employees so they can deliver for our customers,” said Kate Gebo, executive vice president, Human Resources and Labor Relations. Strategic onboarding plays a critical role in preparing new hires to provide outstanding service.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the financial world, failing to effectively onboard new employees can be catastrophic. Today’s Onboarding Is So Much More Than a One-Day Orientation. We refer to onboarding as the period of time that organizations enculturate, engage, and train their new hires.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

So that new hires could have an equally “sweet” experience, International Dairy Queen recently transformed to a strategic onboarding program. The post International Dairy Queen Creates a “Sweet” Experience through Strategic Onboarding appeared first on SilkRoad. Read the full case study.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Strategic onboarding offers all sorts of benefits: speeding new hire productivity, creating deeper new hire engagement and improving retention. These 4 “pillars” can help you get started in building a plan, communicating it to your management team and defining your enterprise onboarding system. It’s all over the media.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Traditionally, onboarding has been defined as new hire paperwork and tasks required to maintain compliance and ensure day one readiness. In the current talent market, new hires decide if they are going to stay with a company within the first six months of employment. Successful onboarding experiences should: Improve engagement.

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Silkroad

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Regardless of the reason that employees are leaving, one thing is certain: the key to keeping employees is formal strategic onboarding programs. In a survey from Korn Ferry Futurstep, ninety-eight percent (98) of senior executives feel that onboarding has a positive connection when it comes to employee retention. Include video.

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Silkroad

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

According to the 2017 Brandon Hall Onboarding Survey, 53% of organizations have formal onboarding processes for promotions. Each of these experiences should be as designed and intentional as the new hire experience so as to create a continuum of engagement and investment in achieving the organization’s goals.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

But, the number of applicants per position has been declining over the last three years, and healthcare organizations face ongoing challenges in hiring velocity, or how long the hiring process takes from posting a new job through a candidate’s offer acceptance. How You Hire Matters, and How You Onboard Matters Even More.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

As you put the final touches on your 2018 plan, be sure to check out SilkRoad’s most popular blog posts from 2017. Onboarding Success in Today’s Talent Economy. 7 Ways to Measure the Effectiveness of an Onboarding Program. Onboarding Success in Today’s Talent Economy. 2017 Sources of Hire Report.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

The Talent Activation Awards celebrate outstanding employer branding and design, innovative candidate-to-new hire experiences, and strategic excellence in leveraging the onboarding process to activate talent to drive business outcomes. Showcase your organization’s excellence in onboarding.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Trendmaker Homes, a premier new home builder, was challenged to create a ‘welcome home’ experience for new hires. We wanted the emotion that home buyers feel when walking up to their new house to be communicated to new hires. Our goal was to align product, brand and employee experience through the company portal.

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Recruiting.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Join us for a webinar to learn more about how to improve your hiring in 2018 with a better candidate experience. Did you know that up to 1 in 4 new hires leave in their first 90 days? Discover how you can provide an authentic and compelling candidate experience from recruitment through onboarding to help reduce your new hire turnover.

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Silkroad

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Streamlining the offer letter process enables organizations to deploy time, resource, and cost savings to create a candidate-to-new hire experience that’s personalized and accessible for each individual candidate. Onboarding begins at offer letter acceptance and is a crucial part in preventing quick quits.

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Silkroad

JUNE 13, 2017

Traditionally, onboarding has been defined as new hire paperwork and tasks required to maintain compliance and ensure day one readiness.

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Brandon Hall

MAY 27, 2015

The topics ranged from social’s impact on talent acquisition and learning to talent management and leadership, but the area that received some of the most interest was onboarding. After the session one attendee pulled me aside to ask if onboarding was solely a recruiting function or if it fell into the learning realm.

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MARCH 27, 2018

Hiring and retaining new employees are daunting tasks for most healthcare organizations for a variety of reasons. And then, the hiring process in healthcare organizations often takes so long that new employees either take another job instead or leave within the first few months. Let’s look at each of these three components.

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APRIL 3, 2019

In a follow-up study last year, we asked 500 hiring managers about the skills human employees need in a world with greater machine participation. Please join us for the interactive How to Reskill and Upskill Your Workforce webinar , sponsored by SilkRoad, this coming Tuesday at 2PM EST. The post Is Reskilling On Your Radar?

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