Recruitment Team Lead Karyna Mykolenko cited statistics according to which 30% of new employees quit within the first 45 days due to a bad onboarding experience.
Recruitment Team Lead Karyna Mykolenko cited statistics according to which 30% of new employees quit within the first 45 days due to a bad onboarding experience.
According to the recruiter, which she expressed on her LinkedIn page, a bad onboarding can ruin the best offer.
«This is not only a lost employee, but also significant costs for re-hiring — up to 50-60% of the employee’s annual salary», — she notes.
Karyna Mykolenko gave examples of unsuccessful beginnings of cooperation:
In order for the onboarding to take place more successfully and efficiently, the Recruitment Team Lead advises the following:
According to Karyna Mykolenko, studies show that quality onboarding reduces staff turnover by 82%, and employees who had a positive experience are 18 times more loyal to the company.
This post caused different opinions among representatives of the IT community.
«One day, a developer who came to yell at me why I made a branch in Perforce without asking him for permission turned out to be my new lead. It just never occurred to anyone to introduce us. Given that the technical director allowed me to do the branch, the problem was not in onboarding. Onboarding is a direct consequence of how everything is organized in general,» — said Team Lead/Python developer Olena Kuznetsova about her experience.
Thus, she believes that it is necessary to proactively introduce not only a new employee, but also all employees as necessary. «It’s a matter of respect for those around you — they don’t have to guess that you have information for them,» she adds.
Project/Delivery Manager Anna Pshenychna agrees with her colleagues.
«Lack of high-quality onboarding causes a new employee to feel useless», — emphasizes Pshenychna.
Middle Quality Assurance Engineer Bohdan M. believes that onboarding should be for all levels of candidates, not just juniors.
«These are completely correct things. It’s a pity that I never had that. I have come across the following expressions: what are you, Jun??? Take and do! Like, if I’m not June, then I was born with knowledge about a new project», — he shares his experience.
Recruiter Tetyana Kozachenko, in turn, shared her negative experience.
«I had such an experience when access was given within two weeks after exit, the equipment was issued even later, and I had to use mine before that. About the partially remote format, which was agreed upon, it was necessary to repeatedly remind and write…», — she said.
