"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 NotesWe're Only Human 14 - Reinventing Recruiting- An Interview with Terry Terhark
We're Only Human 13 - Calculating the ROI of Human Resources
We're Only Human 12 - The Value of HR Certification: Q&A with Kristina Minyard
We're Only Human 11: Using Talent Mobility Tech to Create Employee Engagement
We're Only Human 10 - Your Employees aren't Innovative Enough
We're Only Human 9 - Sourcing, Recruiting, and Organizational Priorities
We're Only Human 8 - Using Books to Create a Shared Culture of Learning
We're Only Human 7 - Eight Ways HR Can Drive Enterprise Innovation
We're Only Human 6 - Women Leaders Behind #HRTech Firms
We're Only Human 5 - HR and the Gig Economy
We're Only Human 4: What is Talent Mobility and Why Does it Matter?
We're Only Human Podcast 3: The Impact of CEO Approval Ratings on Recruiting
We're Only Human Podcast 2: Recruiting as a Service
We're Only Human 1: Intro Episode
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