Top 5 Free or Affordable HR On-boarding Software Tools for Small Business

Having done all the hard work of hiring top talent, many businesses make the huge mistake of neglecting that talent once it walks through the door. This is counter-productive and wasteful – given the time and money spent – as the long term success of your new hire is in part dependent on you offering a suitable on-boarding experience for your new hire. Research shows that a good on-boarding experience during the employee’s first 90 days significantly increases productivity and loyalty in the new hire.

To help you in this area, here my top 5 free or affordable HR on-boarding software tools for small business.

1.HR Onboard. This is a market-leading HR on-boarding software tool for small business. This system enables a paper-free on-boarding experience, and streamlines the new hire, on-boarding process. The system allows candidates to electronically accept offer via text or email. It can be fully branded to suit your business and you can add images, videos and personal messages. Candidates can contact hiring managers using the portal and can decline or negotiate offers using the system. Contracts and policies can be uploaded and disseminatedn via the system too. Prices start at $40 per new hire.

2.StaffTRAK Onboard New Hire Checklist. This is a downloadable, 35 point new hire checklist for use on your new hire’s first day. It also contains supporting documents including a probationary review form, new hire survey, job description template, and a quarterly appraisal form. Everything you need to ensure your new hire hits the ground running. Don’t invest thousands of pounds hiring only to to throw it all all way on a poor new hire on-boarding which sews the seeds of destruction for you new hire.

Improve your new hire: retention rates, time to productivity and overall customer satisfaction rates with this New Hire, On-boarding Checklist.

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3. Cornerstone – Onboarding. This is another market-leading HR on-boarding software tool that offers a personalized on-boarding experience for new hires. The system allows you to manage and process new hire forms and documents including employee handbook, policies, banking data, emergency contact info. You can manage, schedule and assign new hire tasks and training via the system. There is a great social element too in that new hires can interact with each other and employees through interactive media and messages and can view company videos.

4.Onboard by HR Cloud. This is a socially orientated and customizable new hire, on-boarding platform that can deliver a highly personalized experience to employees. New hires are greeted with an employee self-service portal containing: messaging, videos, content and documents specifically tailored to them. It’s very easy to customize the onboarding workflow and checklist in order to create a personalized on-boarding experience.

5.Talmundo. This is a market leading pre-boarding and on-boarding software tool. The system includes a workflow that enables you to set out and implement an experience roadmap to cover the entire pre-boarding and on-boarding process. It covers the period from a month before joining until 2 or 3 months after joining. You can overlay a social journey too, allowing colleagues to share stories and testimonials with the new hire. The system enables you to include educational content in a variety of forms such as video, quizzes, role plays etc…

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