Avoid Early Exits: Candidate Onboarding Strategies That Stick
About this episode
Keeping your best talent is often harder than hiring them in the first place.
A recent study found that over 20% of HR leaders reported that up to half of their new hires leave within the first 90 days, and 61% of HR leaders say early turnover has increased over the past year.
So what’s going wrong in those vital first few months?
In this episode of the Searching Smarter podcast, we speak with Christine Corson, Managing Director at DSJ Global.
With over a decade of experience helping some of the world’s biggest organisations build and scale teams, Christine shares practical strategies for setting new hires up for long-term success - for both the candidate and the organization.
If you want to uncover the real reasons why onboarding often fails and how to retain talent, this is for you.
Covered in this episode:
- 0:00 - Intro
- 1:53 - Why so many new hires are leaving within the first 90 days.
- 3:42 - Are more candidates leaving on their own or being asked to leave?
- 5:09 - The onboarding mistakes hiring managers make before day one.
- 7:09 - Early signals that a new hire might be thinking of leaving.
- 9:50 - How often managers should be checking in with new hires.
- 11:22 - How to handle dissatisfaction from new starters.
- 13:25 - 3 onboarding actions to take before a new hire starts.
- 15:44 - 3 onboarding actions to take within the first 90 days of a candidate starting.
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