Slides from the Aberdeen Group's Webinar on 9-26-12 "Why Merging Screening and Onboarding Will Improve Your Recruitment Process" sponsored by Verifications Inc

1. Why Merging
Screening and
Onboarding Will
Improve Your
Recruitment
Process
Madeline Laurano
Research Director,
Human Capital Management
September 26, 2012

3. Aberdeen Maturity Class Framework
P A C E
 What you need to do to
Best-in-Class
become Best-in-Class

What processes you
should have in place

What you need to
Industry measure
Average 
Organizational changes
you might want to make

Data / Knowledge
management
Laggard considerations

Technologies you should
evaluate

4. Our Agenda
 The Current State of Recruitment
 Linking Processes
 The Impact to the Business
 Best Practices
 Technology
 Case Studies

5. Four Trends Impacting Recruitment
Resume
Overload

6. Top Pressures Facing HR Leaders

7. What Happens When You Merge Talent
Processes?

8. Strategic Talent Acquisition
The process of identifying, attracting
and onboarding talent in order to
drive business performance

9. What About Recruitment?
Only 12% of organizations are connecting
screening with onboarding to drive business
results

10. Screening
Deeply probing into relevant information on
candidates and relying on more than single errors
to reject candidates
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11. What Does Screening Look Like?
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12. Onboarding
The strategic
process designed
to acclimate new
employees into the
organization and
preparing them to
contribute to a
desired level as
quickly as
possible
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13. Key Components of Strategic Onboarding
 Forms Management: Collecting, tracking and
managing all internal and external new hire
forms.
 Tasks Management: Ensuring that all the
activities around onboarding the new hire are
completed.
 Socialization: Engaging new hires into the
company culture.
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14. What Does Onboarding Look Like?
Source: Aberdeen Group Onboarding, May 2012
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15. Where Do Screening and Onboarding Overlap?
 Forms can be completed quickly and accurately before day one
 Recruiters and hiring managers can have access to forms at any
stage in the hiring process.
 New hires can focus on business-oriented projects on day one
 Recruiters and hiring managers have greater visibility
 The new hire experience and candidate experience are consistent
 Recruiters and hiring managers have new hire information readily
available to better assimilate in the company
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16. Best Practices
 Align with the Business
 Extend the Length of Program
 Consider the Full Picture
 Standardize/Customize
 Measure the Process
 Invest in Technology
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17. When Does Onboarding
Begin?
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18. Fast Facts
61% of Organizations Say that
Onboarding Starts Before Day 1
Source: Aberdeen Group Onboarding, May 2012
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19. What About Best-in-Class
77% of Organizations Say that
Onboarding Starts Before Day 1
Source: Aberdeen Group Onboarding, May 2012
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20. Flexible Workforce
Source: Aberdeen Group Onboarding, May 2012
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21. Fast Facts
Although 83% of Best-in-Class organizations have
a standardized process for onboarding, 49% of
those organizations are able to tweak that process
to meet the needs of different locations and
business units.
Source: Aberdeen Group Onboarding, May 2012
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22. Top HR Metrics…Engagement and
Productivity Matter
Metrics
Engagement 4.60
Time to Productivity 4.48
New hire retention 4.40
Quality of Hire 3.02
Source: Aberdeen Group Onboarding, May 2012
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23. Socialization Begins Early
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24. AUTOMATING
THE PROCESS
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25. Current State of Talent Management
Technology
Source: Aberdeen Group, The 2011 HR Executive’s Agenda, January 2011
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26. Barriers to Merging
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27. Purchasing Trends
24% Of respondents say their budget for Onboarding technology
solutions / services will increase
Source: Aberdeen Group Onboarding, May 2012
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28. Key Criteria for Investment
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29. Thanks for your interest in our research!
 Madeline Laurano
Research Director
madeline.laurano@aberdeen.co
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617-854-5304
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Ed Shenker
EVP
edward.shenker@verificationsinc.com
m. 646-385-2078
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