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How to Apply Dynamics 365 for Talent Onboarding

March 18, 2020 - by Synoptek

Despite all the efforts organizations put into the hiring process, a large percentage of employees quit within the first few months mainly due to a poor onboarding experience. If you want your new hires to remain engaged with the organization for long, a good onboarding experience plays a huge role. It prepares the new hires for their first day at work, get an overview of the tools they will be using, acquire a sense of the organizational culture, and more.

Dynamics 365 for Human Resources is a tool that can help organizations streamline and improve their talent onboarding process.

Dynamics 365 and the World of Talent

Dynamics 365 for Talent (now Dynamics 365 for Human Resources) is a stand-alone application that puts people at the center of the entire talent experience. Dynamics 365 allows organizations to quickly and efficiently attract new hires, successfully onboard them, and enjoy a host of other benefits, including self-service, analytics, and more.

Dynamics 365 for Talent Onboarding

Using Dynamics 365 for Talent, organizations can:

  • Attract and hire the right people faster and provide them with a great experience.
  • Make new hires feel welcome by adding structure and minimizing the anxiety that comes with starting a new job.
  • Simplify the recruitment process and fuel the right outcomes for candidates as well as for the business.
  • Familiarize new hires with the team, location, company mission and values, organizational chart, and more.
  • Introduce them to reporting workflows, tools, organizational processes, etc. and educate them about their roles and responsibilities – based on the department they join.
  • Efficiently integrate new employees into the organization and ensure they have all the tools and resources they need to do their jobs effectively.
  • Leverage out-of-the-box (or customized) onboarding templates, personalized checklists, and standardized processes to streamline the onboarding experience.
  • Reproduce successful onboarding experiences by saving guides as templates and use them for future hiring.

Using Dynamics 365 for Onboarding Talent

Whether you’re recruiting new hires or moving employees within departments, preparing candidates for their new roles can go a long way in ensuring employee satisfaction and workforce retention. Dynamics 365 allows you to provide your employees with personalized guides that are specifically designed to keep them engaged, informed, and productive.

It enables you to introduce new hires to your culture and help them drive value through their efforts quickly. Using Dynamics 365, you can:

Discover Ready-to-Use Onboarding Templates

Whether you’re hiring employees across marketing, sales, operations, finance, customer service, or HR, with Dynamics 365, you can choose from a pool of ready-to-use onboarding templates. These templates provide new hires a ton of information about the company, location, mission, vision, values, workflows, processes, and more. Depending on the role, you can choose a template and bring new hires up-to-speed with your organization.

Create and Edit Onboarding Guides

For those who want to modify onboarding templates based on their needs, Dynamics 365 allows creating customized onboarding guides – from templates that you created in the past, templates that are available in a gallery, or from scratch. Once you’ve created a guide, you can also edit it to include rich content such as videos, apps, presentations, and more.

Share Guides with New Hires as Well as New Contributors

Once you’ve finalized your onboarding guide, Dynamics 365 allows you to send it to a new hire or multiple new hires – based on the type and number of employees you’ve recruited. You can also assign onboarding guides to each team or share them with other contributors, who can then review documents and make changes.

View Status of Onboarding Employees

With Dynamics 365, you can also view the progress new hires are making in their onboarding activities as well as get insight into tasks that have been assigned to them from the onboarding guide.

Boost Engagement from Day One

In a world where employees have set the bar high, Dynamics 365 allows organizations to provide exceptional experiences across hiring, engagement, development, and retention. By creating a personalized onboarding experience for each hire, organizations set new employees up for success. Right from making them feel welcome to streamlining the onboarding experience, improving engagement to accelerating time-to-impact, Dynamics 365 is all an organization needs to improve employee engagement and experience from the day they join the company.

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