What is onboarding for new employees?

Onboarding new employees is the process of getting a new hire familiar with their role, the organization, and the company culture. The goal is to help them become effective, contributing, and happy members of the team.

Why is onboarding for new employees so important?

HR onboarding plays a crucial role as a game-changer for your company’s success and your employees’ experience. Here are the key benefits of effective onboarding: fast-tracked productivity, stronger engagement, higher retention, lower costs, and time savings.

How can onboarding enhance the efficiency of our HR team's workflow?

An effective onboarding program ensures new hires become productive faster and reduces turnover. Appical helps streamline the process, making all steps clear, from introductions to training.

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Help new employees settle in quickly with effective onboarding

Ensure every new hire gets off to a great start with our HR onboarding solution. Automate tasks, centralize key information, and guide employees from day one. Save time, reduce errors, and create an engaging experience. 🚀

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Curious how our digital new employee onboarding platform can transform your process? Click the image below to explore our interactive demo and see it in action!

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The benefits of effective Employee Onboarding

‍Give a warm welcome and increase engagement.
An effective employee onboarding process ensures that new hires feel right at home in your organization and supported in their new role.

Help new hires be successful in their new role.
By providing the right information, tools, and training, new employees can become familiar with the company and their job swiftly.

Save time and costs on HR.
By automating repetitive HR tasks, our solutions free up time and resources, allowing your team to focus on what really matters—supporting your people.

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This is how we do it

How our platform supports Onboarding

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Automated Onboarding: Save Time & Personalize

Automated onboarding with Appical can save your HR team a lot of time and still offer personalization, based on location, department or role. It reminds new hires to complete tasks, sign documents and read content, while informing other stakeholders of their responsibilities. Plus, you can easily monitor progress and ask for feedback, to improve where needed.

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Easily connect with your new hires

A strong onboarding process can improve new hire retention by 82%! Appical enables you to quickly introduce new hires to their team, buddy, and manager via interactive content and the people finder, and welcome them with personalized messages. Share your company culture, mission and vision to ensure new hires are invested in your organization.

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Inform your new hires in a fun way

The first few weeks of a new job can be overwhelming. Our app helps new employees get comfortable in their role and in the organization with interactive content like stories, questions, quizzes and videos. It provides the right info at the right time, reducing Day 1 info 'bombardment.' Plus, it allows new hires to ease into their role at their own pace, via the app or browser.

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