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Our 5 tips for onboarding summer employees

Onboarding new employees is a crucial step in ensuring their successful integration into the company. However, this task can become more complex during the summer months, when many employees are on vacation and activity can slow down. In this article, we’ll share our 5 tips for onboarding summer employees effectively and successfully.

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During the summer, it’s important to adapt your onboarding process to take into account the specificities of this period.

  1. Anticipate and plan

Before the new employee arrives, make sure you have planned and organized all the stages of his or her onboarding. This includes preparing the workspace, creating the necessary accounts and accesses, and setting up preliminary training sessions. By anticipating your new employee’s needs, you can guarantee a smooth integration from day one.

  1. Assign a mentor or sponsor

Assigning a mentor or sponsor to a new employee can greatly facilitate integration. He or she can guide the newcomer, answer questions and help him or her adapt to the company’s culture and processes. During the summer months, it’s particularly important to ensure the mentor’s availability despite vacations and absences.

  1. Use technology to your advantage

Human resources management tools and onboarding management platforms can be extremely useful during the summer months. They can be used to centralize information, monitor integration progress and facilitate communication between the various stakeholders, even when certain employees are temporarily absent.

  1. Plan flexible training sessions

During the summer, staff availability may vary due to vacations and absences. For this reason, we recommend offering flexible training sessions, adapted to individual schedules and constraints. This may involve online sessions, e-learning modules or individual training sessions, depending on the new employee’s needs.

  1. Promote social integration

Social integration is an essential aspect of onboarding, even during the summer months. Encourage informal interaction between the new employee and his or her colleagues, whether through team lunches, team-building activities or informal events. This will enable the newcomer to feel quickly integrated and at ease in his new professional environment.

Onboarding employees during the summer months can present unique challenges, but with proper planning and intelligent adaptation, it’s entirely possible to ensure a successful integration. By following our advice, you can optimize your onboarding process and offer your new employees a positive induction experience, even in the middle of summer.

The benefits of digital onboarding?

To adapt to teleworking employees, companies need to redefine their onboarding process and move towards digital onboarding. This can be done entirely remotely and online. This new way of working saves a considerable amount of time. New employees don’t have to travel to the company headquarters. This means they’re up and running faster.

Remote onboarding breaks down geographical barriers.

Why not organize a virtual integration session with all new arrivals?

It’s a great way to network with counterparts based in other areas. This type of integration enables the new employee to get to know the key contacts at different company sites.

Digital onboarding is an indispensable process for teleworkers. It is a necessary step towards their full integration into the company.

Good to know! quarksUp is an HRIS solution for managing the entire employee cycle.

Thanks to this HR tool, everything can be done online. As an HR manager, you’ll be in charge of all our employees’ digital activities. With its modular offer, quarksUp intervenes from recruitment to employee off-boarding.

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