HR Welcome Pack
The induction of a new employee has a significant impact on the performance of a new comer. The induction process is one of key areas for the improvement, and has a strong positive impact on business results. The HR Welcome Pack is an excellent start for the induction program and builds the initial emotional relationship with the company. The HR Welcome Pack is not the standard information about the key processes in the company, but it explains the company vision, values and other essential stuff for the successful induction in the company. The welcome pack is a part of the HR Marketing.
Goals of HR Welcome Pack
The welcome pack informs the new hire about the company. The new hire does not have sufficient information about the company he or she is going to join. The welcome pack offers the basic overview of the company, its financial results in brief and its leading products and services.
The HR Welcome Pack has a description of the corporate values and the corporate culture. It describes the values in a detail as the new hire can adapt to the new environment quickly. The corporate values should be demonstrated using the real-life examples. The new hire can translate the corporate words into the real behavior examples. The adaptation of the new employee has to begin before the start date.
The pack should provoke the new hire in thinking about his or her personal contribution to the excellent results of the organization. The successful adoption of the new hire is in aligning expectations and opportunities from both parties – organization and the employee.
On the other hand, the HR Welcome Pack is not the HR Marketing document used for hiring. It has to offer a wider range of information, and they have to be focused specifically on few months after the hire. The information has to be accurate, appealing and has to provide guidance to the new employee.
HR Welcome Pack Content
The HR Welcome Pack should consist of several chapters to provide useful information to the new hire:
- Corporate values
- Corporate culture
- Career Success Stories
- Organizational Structure
- Departments
- Start Day (including documentation)
- First Days at Work
The corporate values and corporate culture drive the organization. The new hire should clearly understand, what values drive the organization forward. The new employee does not understand the internal processes. The adapted employee does not ask questions like “Who can approve this? How does it work?”. The adapted employee understands how is the company organized and who can provide help. The corporate values usually drive the internal processes.
The success stories are always helping to build the emotional relationship. The new hire can explain the success stories to friends. They can be amazed and inspired. The new hire needs to see the advantages of the new employer. The success stories help a lot. Several cases of the successful career at different levels of the organization should be described in the HR Welcome Pack.
The company should open its structure and the role of departments to the new hire. The new employee usually understands the role of the hiring department, but he or she misses the general overview of the organization. The welcome pack should briefly describe the role of units and their successes from the past.
The start day is always critical. The new hire comes and does not know, what is the content of the first day on the new job. The welcome pack should describe the tasks during the first day; the documents needed and the content of the Induction Training. The pack should explain the documents necessary to brought.
The welcome pack should focus on first days on the new job. The new hire will not ask so many questions to colleagues and will handle many initial issues on his or her own. The first days are about goals for the induction period, detailed description of the job content and accesses to the information systems.