The onboarding process is crucial to helping new employees form a connection with your organization. Some employers, however, fail to pay sufficient attention to the onboarding process —making it more likely that new hires will leave. Troy Ashby, CPA, founder of Dallas-Fort Worth-area recruiting firm Benchmark Search Group, outlines steps you can take to improve onboarding and increase new employees’ sense of belonging.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why you should be paying more attention to onboarding (1:12)
• Simple steps you can take to improve your onboarding process (2:15)
• What to do at various stages in an employee’s first 90 days (5:45)
• Onboarding mistakes that can give new hires a poor impression (7:00)

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