Congratulations, you’re hired! “Welcome on board!”
For your first task, you will now spend the next hour navigating your way through a heap of paperwork.
Are you ready?...get set...now go write your name and ID card number, again and again and again.
Does this sound familiar to your first day of work?
If your organization is like most organizations, your new hire onboarding process would be a tedious, cumbersome, and let’s admit it, not very environmentally friendly.
My company has about 10 corporate policies and forms that are required for the new hire to read, review and sign prior to their first day of work, with no less than 40 pages of paper that needs printing, which then the HR collects and perhaps do a copy of those – from each new hire!
I would have thought with all those IT advancements, we should be saving a lot of that hassles with a bit more automation. No?
2 comments:
Sometimes I find IT companies are the ones that's lagging behind in IT innovation within the company. Imagine not having an automated leave tracking system!
I had a more environmental-friendly experience previously. I was offered a job and asked to go to the office to collect and sign the letter of offer. The letter of office is the usual stuff that's probably 2-page long. I was led to a PC where all the benefits were listed for me to browse. It was mandatory that I have browsed through all the benefits before I sign the offer letter. The benefits pages were simple, comprehensive and straight forward. It's not one of those intranet sites with multiple links. It's user-friendly. Just like any consumer web site. Press next, next, next and you would cover all the pages eventually.
This is the best experience I have. Save paper. Very comprehensive. You read up all you want to know about benefits before you join, get to seek clarifications from HR if needed before you sign the letter. And needless to say, this is of course not an IT company. It's a mobile phone operator!! Local firm, not even MNC.
You are finally switching jobs, good for you!
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