Virtual Onboarding: Why Digital Onboarding will be the Future of Recruitment

By Euvouria LLC

The way that businesses take on, train, and ensure that staff are able to effectively function in a new work environment is known as onboarding. However, in recent years, onboarding has undergone tremendous changes. The most significant of these changes is the increased digitization of onboarding processes, which has taken form in a process known as virtual onboarding. This new form of onboarding presents many opportunities and challenges for business today, and in the future.

However, to properly understand what virtual onboarding is, and how it really impacts businesses today, there are many concepts which first must be understood. As such, the following research will provide a framework of understanding as to what onboarding is, the critical functions of onboarding, and how onboarding has changed throughout history and today—to provide a complete understanding of what this virtual onboarding is.

Following this, the research will provide a comprehensive analysis of virtual onboarding. The objectives and outcomes, the fundamentals, the approaches, best practices, and other critical areas of knowledge will be presented. Collectively, this research will provide information that can be used in business to gain a better understanding as to what virtual onboarding is, how it can be used, and what benefits it will create for business in the future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Euvouria
• Release date: Nov 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220863353

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Contents

Table of Figures

Overview

Part 1 Processes and functions of onboarding

What is onboarding?

History of onboarding

Evolution of onboarding

Socialization tactics

Fundamentals of onboarding

The four C’s

Common pitfalls and mistakes

Overcoming pitfalls and mistakes

Part 2 Remote onboarding

What is remote onboarding?

Stages of remote onboarding

Growth of remote onboarding

Part 3 Virtual & digital onboarding

Virtual and digital onboarding

What is it?

How does it work?

Steps in virtual onboarding

Preboarding

Ongoing onboarding

Training and induction

Differences: virtual, remote and traditional onboarding

Approaches to virtual onboarding

Objectives of virtual onboarding

Outcomes of virtual onboarding

Attitudes towards virtual onboarding

Acceptance of virtual onboarding

Expectations of virtual onboarding

Employee

Organizations

Feedback tools used in virtual onboarding

The four C’s in remote onboarding

Remote onboarding and HRM

Best practices

Future on virtual onboarding

Transitioning to full digitization

COVID restrictions and concerns

Advances in technology

Summary

References

Appendices

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Table of Figures

Figure 1: Traditional functions of organizational socialization, identification phase

Figure 2: Traditional functions of organizational socialization, adjustment and outcome phases

Figure 3: Evolution of socialization tactics, then and now

Figure 4: The 4 C’s of compliance

Figure 5: Differences in types of onboarding.

Figure 6: The 4 C’s applied in traditional and virtual onboarding

Overview

The way that businesses take on, train, and ensure that staff are able to effectively function in a new work environment is known as onboarding. However, in recent years, onboarding has undergone tremendous changes. The most significant of these changes is the increased digitization of onboarding processes, which has taken form in a process known as virtual onboarding. This new form of onboarding presents many opportunities and challenges for business today, and in the future.

However, to properly understand what virtual onboarding is, and how it really impacts businesses today, there are many concepts which first must be understood. As such, the following research will provide a framework of understanding as to what onboarding is, the critical functions of onboarding, and how onboarding has changed throughout history and today—to provide a complete understanding of what this virtual onboarding is.

Following this, the research will provide a comprehensive analysis of virtual onboarding. The objectives and outcomes, the fundamentals, the approaches, best practices, and other critical areas of knowledge will be presented. Collectively, this research will provide information that can be used in business to gain a better understanding as to what virtual onboarding is, how it can be used, and what benefits it will create for business in the future.

Part

1

Processes and functions

of onboarding

What is onboarding?

When hiring new employees, it’s important that they are trained so that they are able to excel in their role, and provide value to the company. However, there are several steps involved in training, that most people believe simply include the interview, orientation, and on-the-job (OTJ) training. The interview (albeit fairly self-explanatory) is just the process of interviewing potential new hires, and selecting on for the job. Orientation can be thought of as a one-time event that simply acquaints a new hire with the company, the people who work there, and their team. OTJ training is the day-to-day learning that a new hire will undergo in their specific role (typically overseen by their supervisor) that involves them learning the systems and technical responsibilities of their role.

However,