With an optimized onboarding process backed by talent management software with Talent Intelligence, you can extend the power of your employment brand and dramatically improve your new hire experience when you:

• Use new hire portals to eliminate costly printings and mailings.
• Display up to the minute status for new hires and onboarding activities.
• Automatically send new hire information to HRIS, payroll, and other systems.
• Create, store, and manage all onboarding forms electronically.

You can also take it further with social onboarding. Social media onboarding connects new employees to colleagues, experts, and work buddies that help them get up to speed faster. This first phase of development and learning creates opportunities for discussions, informal learning, formal boot camps, and orientation sessions.

Giving new hires a happy welcome has been proven to boost engagement, increase productivity, and lower costs. Making that good first impression not only gets people up to speed, it also accelerates their company engagement. As a component of a social talent management strategy, social onboarding practices complement Social Recruiting, Social Performance, and Social Learning.

To learn more, read Onboarding: Speeding the Way to Productivity and register for the upcoming Taleo-sponsored webinar: First Impressions Count: How Technology Can Help Improve Your Onboarding Strategy.