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Profiling: The onboarding step that transforms your growth efforts

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by ELENA VERNA for Elena's Growth Scoop You’ve certainly heard it before:  “No! We can’t add more questions to the onboarding flow. It will drop our activation!” Skipping profiling questions in onboarding is a classic example of a good idea being applied in the wrong place. Frankly, I think this instinct mostly comes from B2B product teams borrowing from B2C best practices—yes, a few extra questions might prevent a teenager from playing your free iPhone game. No, a few extra questions will not prevent a highly qualified professional from using your platform. And yes, reducing friction in UX is crucial.…

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Virtual Training for Onboarding: Engaging, Effective, and Secure Employee Integration

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By Rob Porter for HR Daily Advisor Susan’s two friends, Meg and Alex, have embarked on new job journeys, but their experiences couldn’t be more contrasting. Meg is facing a challenging start, expressing her dissatisfaction with a rough onboarding process and a lack of connection to the company. On the other hand, Alex is thriving in her new role, enthusiastically describing a great experience. She attributes this positive start to the company’s innovative use of technology for onboarding, which has not only kept her engaged but also well-informed and connected from the very beginning. As the HR director, it’s crucial…

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10 Tips for Creating an Onboarding Checklist for New Hires

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By Ally Goodwin for HR Daily Advisor Your company just made a new hire? Congratulations to you and your new employee(s). Whether you’ve made one or two hires, or are conducting a mass-hiring campaign, there are a lot of moving pieces involved with onboarding new hires. As many human resources (HR) personnel will tell you, the hiring process isn’t over when the acceptance call or email goes to the candidate. Onboarding isn’t as simple as it sounds, and depending on the job, position, or industry, there can be many qualifications and credentials that can complicate the process. After spending over 17 years…

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