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Companies struggle with onboarding talent

April 28, 2022

As the pandemic slowly subsides and many employers ramp up operations, recruiting top talent is a big priority — especially if they’re losing talent during the ‘great resignation.’

The problem? Onboarding, according to a survey from Eagle Hill Consulting.

Recent new hires indicate that their onboarding did not adequately cover many of the basics that employees need to be successful, including understanding relationship building (71 per cent), organizational culture (62 per cent), technology (54 per cent) and their benefits (46 per cent).

Employers are missing out on this important opportunity, says Melissa Jezior, president and CEO of Eagle Hill Consulting, in speaking with Canadian HR Reporter.

“Onboarding… it’s a way to integrate new hires into your organization not only procedurally or from a process perspective, not only from teaching them how to do their jobs, but also in terms of integrating them into your culture and into kind of the very fabric of your organization.

“If you don’t spend time upfront integrating them into your organization, it never seems to go as well for the employee and, quite frankly, for the employer.”

It’s critical that employers address the issue as only 50 per cent of workers expect to be at the same job three years from now, finds the survey of 782 employees in the U.S. in February.

But what’s causing the problem?

“Many companies don’t focus on onboarding,” says Jezior. “It’s simply because they are not spending the time to either comprehensively onboard people, or they’re treating onboarding much more like orientation.”

Source: HR Reporter
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