"I was deleting 24 Google Calendar placeholders one day and manually copy/pasting new hire email addresses into the 17 ones we were going to keep. It was at least 30 minutes of hundreds of just mindless clicks. And I said, wait a minute. I'm gonna figure out how to do this [better]. So I looked at our Google Calendar integration, saw that I could both delete calendar events and add participants to calendar events. It worked so well. I took hundreds of clicks down to two clicks to complete those two actions, which is huge for me. And then I said, what else can I automate? So I just kept going from there."
Ashley Priebe Brown, Onboarding Manager, Zapier
We're Only Human -- Episode 160
Onboarding is one of the most critical moments in the employee experience. The latest data from Lighthouse Research & Advisory shows that two out of three new hires know if they will stay at a company within the first week on the job. But that's not all. There are so many transactional, repetitive tasks that it's easy to get bogged down as an HR leader. In this episode of We're Only Human, Ashley Priebe Brown from Zapier talks about how she automated hundreds of hours of onboarding tasks, minimizing busy work and maximizing impact on their new hire cohorts. If you are looking for ideas on how to streamline your onboarding and make it more relevant and useful, this episode is for you.
Show NotesWOH 74: Using Internal Podcasts to Communicate with Deskless Workers
WOH 73: What it Takes to Mentor Women (and Men)
WOH 72: How Intel Designs Intentional Candidate Experiences
WOH 71: How to Scale HR with a Growing Business
WOH 70: Hint: There's No Perfect HR Tech System for Everyone
WOH 69: Pricing Skills Versus Jobs with Labor Market Intelligence
WOH 68: How to Approach HR Like a CFO
WOH 67: Filling Critical Skills Gaps for Today's College Graduates
WOH 66: Trends Driving 4x Growth in HR Analytics Teams
WOH 65: Delivering HR Technology for 75,000 Global Employees at Emerson Electric
WOH 64: How to Engage Remote Teams and Virtual Workers
WOH 63: 5 Lessons from the Best Midsize Employer in the US
62: How to Repond to Negative Glassdoor Reviews with Chad Roudebush
61: Why You Shouldn't Pick Low-Hanging Fruit as a New Leader
Episode 60: 69% of Job Seekers Would Not Reapply After a Negative Experience
We're Only Human 59: Stomping out Stereotypes with AARP's Heather Tinsley-Fix
We're Only Human 58: Open Sourcing the Recruiting Playbook from Northwestern Mutual
We're Only Human 57: Prioritizing D&I at Online Gaming Firm NCSOFT
We're Only Human 56: How Delta Airlines Designs its Candidate Experience
We're Only Human 55:The HR Leader's First Year on the Job
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