WCN, a leading UK and Global e-Recruitment software supplier, has formed a strategic partnership with intermezzoHR, specialists in the application of innovative and easy-to-use, people-centric, digital solutions to provide an OnBoarding solution to their clients.
The deal means that clients using WCN’s recruitment system can improve the immediate work-readiness of new starters through an intermezzoHR OnBoarding HUB. The HUB – a digital platform created to meet the specific requirements of new starters – is made available before their first day and provides access to tailored content and resources. Access to essential, need-to-know information and all necessary paperwork (policy documents, payroll details, health and safety information, tax and benefit forms, training manuals and company contracts) can be combined with engaging content introducing a new starter to the business and its people. This combination improves individuals’ time-to-capability and promotes high levels of initial engagement before they arrive for their first day. Clients are also provided with a HUB Management System wh! ich offers unlimited content editing and updating functionality as well as bespoke and comprehensive tracking and reporting of new starter progress.
Preparing employees in this way makes huge commercial sense. A 2008 study by Aberdeen Group found that companies with an effective on-boarding process got new staff to full productivity three times as quickly as those without.
“If new employees are in roles that can immediately impact on the bottom line, such as sales, that’s a huge gain,” says Sarah Callery, Channel & Alliances Manager at WCN. “Productivity aside, the likelihood of a new recruit staying with a company is also significantly affected by their experience during the first few months of employment – so a smooth and professional induction is massively important.”
The Human Resources Corporate Leadership Council bears this out. It found that increasing an employee's sense of engagement potentially improved performance by 20% and reduced the probability of departure by 87%. Since it can cost 150% of a departing employee's salary to replace them, this is a major benefit.
Sarah adds: "All the figures show that the more effectively you introduce new people into a business, the happier and more productive they are. Yet in busy companies, managing the induction process can be time consuming and stressful for already busy staff.
That’s why we wanted to offer our clients a brilliant on boarding service that works in tandem with our current recruitment platform. With us, clients can now not only recruit great talent more easily but, thanks to our partnership with intermezzoHR, they can also now induct those new recruits into their businesses much more effectively."
Neil Jones, Managing Partner at intermezzoHR said: “We have agreed to partner with WCN because we believe we have a very similar ethos on client management. Just like WCN, we strive to apply the very best technology in ways that genuinely help our clients achieve more where their people are concerned. The fact that we have complementary capabilities and have developed some applications that add to WCN’s offering made the partnership a logical and exciting step. We’re very much looking forward to working with them.”
