Trends and best practices in onboarding: A People Matters and Simplilearn study

The talent landscape is unceasingly being challenged by technological disruption, demographic change, shifting business models and the evolving nature of work. There is an immediate need to address the skill gap and boost reskilling and upskilling efforts in the current workforce and the new hires.

Owing to the changing business dynamics and long training periods, organizations need to start the skilling processes right from the time the new hires receive their joining offers. Onboarding and Pre-boarding programs can act as effective mediums to help new hires from campuses and lateral hires become job-ready by upskilling in new-age technologies or skills of the future. 

Continuing with our endeavor to provide actionable research to our community, People Matters in partnership with Simplilearn studied how Indian companies are approaching employee onboarding. This involved understanding the current state of the onboarding process in the organizations, the role of onboarding technology in accelerating skill development among new hires and how pre-boarding can fast-track the skill readiness of a new hire.