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Learn How to Pre-Board Your New Hires They’ll Love You Forever

Don’t panic, it’s easy most of it’s common sense

8 min readJul 21, 2025
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Most organizations have such horrendous onboarding processes that they should pay their new hires a stress bonus.

A new job, a new start, and a new dream shattered because someone couldn’t be bothered to create a simple onboarding process.

Think I’m exaggerating?

I’ve seen new hires arrive and no-one knows who they are. Their manager was missing, the team weren’t expecting a new colleague, and the newbie was left to introduce themselves and tell everyone their job title. Oh, and there wasn’t anywhere for them to sit.

A friend of mine started a senior role with a large company and discovered on her first day that she had to provide her own laptop and phone.

An ex-colleague was once sent on a residential induction course in a different city on their first day at a new job. Their manager sent them home to pack and travel to the training venue immediately.

Not an ideal start to a new job.

But why should you care about this? Why is this important to you?

Because poor onboarding not only gives new hires a bad impression of you and the organization, but it also…

Wendy Scott
Wendy Scott

Written by Wendy Scott

L&D professional writing practical, step-by-step leadership and training & development articles to help leaders, managers & trainers grow their careers.