Onboarding Software: Square Pegs & Round Holes

First and foremost, I'd like to welcome aboard our newest raving fan customer, Kelly Services.  Kelly is a global workforce solutions leader with a broad industry offering, from accounting to education, from engineering to IT.  Kelly is a true industry leader, the recipient of numerous awards.  Learn more about Kelly here. There is no shortage …

Succession Planning and Onboarding

Succession Planning and Onboarding Workforce Management’s series of featured articles this week touch on several aspects of succession planning including the potential uses of new technology to improve this process. The current methods used by many companies to identify at-risk positions and prepare to shift competent employees into those jobs as they are vacated are …

Human Capital Management and Onboarding

Human Capital Management (HCM) And Onboarding At Emerald Software, we always like to keep abreast of the latest studies and white papers published in the HR technology field. Workday consistently publishes articles with interesting content, so be sure to head over to their resources page to download a couple. The one I’d like to comment …

Controlling Access to New Hire Data

Controlling Access To New Hire Data Workforce.com has a very interesting series of articles available about data breaches in HR. When employees’ personal information is compromised and ID theft occurs as a result, it is not unusual for employers to be held accountable in several very unpleasant ways. The affected workers may sue, the FTC …

Should Automated Onboarding be Optional or Mandatory?

Should Automated Onboarding be Optional or Mandatory? For companies that have multiple locations, one decision that has to be made during implementation is whether an automated onboarding system will be used at all work sites. This question may be especially pertinent for franchise operations where some decisions are made at corporate headquarters and some by individual franchisees. …

Virtual Job Fairs and Onboarding

Virtual Job Fairs and Automated Onboarding According to Workforce.com’s contributing author Bridget Mintz Testa, employers are starting to go virtual earlier in the onboarding process than ever before. With budgets stretched to the limit but hiring starting to pick up, companies are recruiting using virtual job fairs. According to sources interviewed by Ms. Testa, webinars …

Are You Ready to Disrupt Your Onboarding Process?

Are You Ready to Disrupt Your Onboarding Process? Blogger Kris Dunn (author of the hrcapitalist site) has a recent article published on Workforce.com that asks an interesting question about introducing change in HR. Is it better to be the person who sets up the initial HR strategy/processes or the one who innovates and improves on …

Will Screening Restrictions Affect Your Onboarding Practices?

How Might Screening Restrictions Affect Your Onboarding Practices? Not surprisingly given the economy for the past couple of years, Illinois has joined the ranks of states that will no longer permit employers to perform a credit check for most types of job candidates. In addition, the EEOC is ramping up investigation into the way that …

Onboarding & I9 Administration

Onboarding & I-9 Administration – What Price Freedom? I blog and write and speak a lot about the cost savings that come with implementing transactional onboarding software. For many clients, the ROI is immediate – they start saving money compared to their current, inefficient paper based system from day one. However, it’s not just cash …

Best in Class Onboarding Stats

Best In Class Onboarding Stats The folks over at Aberdeen have a very informative slideshow up on the web (courtesy of our friends at iCIMS) regarding the benefits of implementing best-in-class onboarding. It offers a decent template for the types of improvements you should be measuring in developing your own new hire program. The percentages displayed …