The best way to create in-house induction & employee onboarding video

How to enhance your employee onboarding program with video

Having a stellar onboarding experience is critical to employee retention. Administration is the traditional core of onboarding, and while paperwork and other routine tasks must be completed, don’t forget that people love to join organisations that align with their values and beliefs. It’s important to keep reinforcing your culture, brand and unique style to new starters and video is an excellent way to communicate culture and style while reinforcing brand.

Video has the additional benefit of being mobile friendly, and compatible with multiple delivery formats across devices. In a world where remote work and distributed workforces are becoming more common, video has the added benefit of ensuring your people are the most memorable aspect of onboarding, regardless of your HR team’s physical location.

Companies using VideoMyJob are creating effective employee onboarding experiences with the following employee-created videos:

Pre-Start

Ensure your new starter is set up for success and already feels like a member of the team before they even set foot in the door.

Orientation

Create videos for repeatable processes so that you can spend one-to-one time getting to know your new starter, not explaining what OKR means or watching them try to create memorable 16 digit passwords for each software platform they need access to.

Learning & Development

An effective training program is vital for an enriched onboarding experience, and our research is clear, most employees prefer learning to be delivered on video.

Video can replace or enhance learning modules on essential software and one-on-one sessions with a line manager. How-to videos on everything from correct safety procedures to customer role-plays can be crowdsourced from your own employees.

Probation

It's important to have regular check-ins to make sure that your new employee is comfortable, happy and engaged. Reviewing and giving thoughtful feedback on your new hire's early contributions is an important part of onboarding, as is gathering feedback and documenting your new employees progress and contributions.

To create a memorable first impression (for the right reasons!) you need to up the level of warmth during onboarding. This can be easily achieved by enhancing every onboarding touchpoint with employee-created video.