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5 tips to improve employee onboarding

Labor-intensive firms are reinventing business models, deploying smart technologies and increasing people productivity. They should be doing the same for their onboarding process.

By Michele Nelson | Updated on March 08, 2018
Onboarding A thorough onboarding experience will give your people the contacts, experiences and perspectives to help them succeed, both in their current role and in the future. (Photo: Shutterstock)

As the war for talent wages on across the US and beyond, companies are desperate to find new and effective ways to attract the right people with the right skills. But the battle doesn’t end there. What comes next is the most critical, and sometimes most overlooked, part of the process.

New hires, full of limitless potential, are often defined by their beginnings. A thorough onboarding experience will give your people the contacts, experiences and perspectives to help them succeed, both in their current role and in the future.

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