Employee Insights Volume 8: What can I do to help during the onboarding process?
Congratulations! If you are getting ready to onboard, you were clearly the best choice compared to the other candidates, it's time to get to work! But not so fast… we have one final process to go through to make sure all things pertaining to your employee profile are good to go before your first day.
Onboarding is the most detail sensitive part of the hiring process and failure to take this part seriously can delay your start date, create issues with your pay, and other sorts of avoidable issues.
Pro Tip: While you may have already gotten an offer, don’t forget, you haven’t actually started work yet. Part of the impression you create with your new team will be stemmed from how well you work with the onboarding team prior to your start date.
This Masterclass Monday, learn how to come prepared to the table and breeze past this simple, yet highly important part of the hiring process.
Expediency:
Once an offer has been extended, take the time to go over the details and ask any questions you might have as early on as possible. The longer in the process you wait, the tougher it becomes to make changes or accommodations. The backend of the onboarding process can be tedious and time consuming to your future HR colleagues, be mindful of their workload and the fact that they are facilitating your employment.
Start Date:
Be transparent and decisive when providing your start date availability and take this time to button up any last-minute items before committing to onboarding and training. This includes your resignation notice, bank visits, doctor/dentist appointments, etc. Once you start, your employer invests large sums of time and money to make sure you are well equipped to do your job as expected. In your best interest, be sure you are ready for that day!
Pre-Employment Check Availability:
Most employers will have you undergo a series of certain pre-employment checks, most commonly, background checks and drug tests. Depending on the nature of the job, you may also be asked to undergo additional physical exams to test your work readiness and health baseline. These steps require you to make the trip to a clinic which also includes, testing time, and the wait time for the results. Many times, the difference between starting from one week to another depends on how quickly you can prioritize and complete your exams.
Documentation:
I9: For employment verification in the U.S. you are required to present documentation that verifies identity, as well as work eligibility. This may be a combination of documents, like various ID’s along with SSN’s or birth certificates, or one document total such as a passport.
Be sure your documents are not expired and still viable! Expired documents are not acceptable!
Direct Deposit: To avoid any discrepancies or delays in pay be sure to provide a direct deposit form from your banking institution as well as double and triple check your data input if required to add it manually.
All in all, this part of the hiring process is the most important part in ensuring your personal details are correct and there are no errors for your payment, internal coding, mailing, tax documents, etc.
Support your team with your full attention and be sure to speak up if you have any questions.
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