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Starting a new job is exciting, and nerve-wracking. A great induction helps new team members feel welcome, settle into the team and adjust to your organisation’s ways of working. It also makes sure they understand your goals, your culture and how they fit into the bigger picture.
Your New Employee Induction Plan will help new starters to perform well and start delivering results as soon as possible.
Bringing someone new into your team is a big investment, in time and money. A good induction and probation process helps make sure it’s the right fit for everyone, right from the start. If things don’t work out, you could end up facing costly recruitment fees, lost time, and disruption for the rest of your team.
For your new employee, a good induction, starting right from the point of offering them the job, reassures them they’ve made the right choice. It calms first-day nerves, boosts their confidence and makes it much more likely they’ll come back!
Having one consistent process across all teams within your organisation will ensure all new starters have the same positive experience, but with flexibility to adjust the content of the induction to suit each individual and each role.
With new legislation expected in 2026, which will give new joiners the right to claim unfair dismissal from day one of employment, employers need to prepare now to reduce the risk of a tribunal claim and the costs and hassle associated with having to re-recruit.
Having successful recruitment practices and an effective induction process will reduce the need to dismiss new starters at all – you’ll be sure that you have recruited the right person first time, and you’ll have a good process in place to settle them in to the team, train them for their role and ways of working, build relationships, and align their efforts with your goals.
It’s expected that these new unfair dismissal rights won’t apply during an agreed probation period, so it’s a good idea to put robust probation processes in place now. Regular check-ins, honest feedback, and clear expectations will help you spot and fix any issues early, or make a fair decision if they are not the right person for the job.
Our New Employee Induction Plan includes an Induction and Probation Toolkit which is designed to provide practical and comprehensive guidance as you plan and carry out these processes. It answers line manager questions and prompts you to think about the most suitable approach.
You’ll also benefit from one hour spent discussing your specific requirements with one of our experienced HR Consultants, before we recommend bespoke processes in line with your organisation’s structure, culture and ways of working. We will then draft your Toolkit to include full guidance on your new processes along with all the template documents, checklists, forms and letters you might need during induction and probation.
We also offer a CPD-certified training course to managers understand the legal and practical aspects of onboarding and probation.
If you’d like us to review your current recruitment, induction and probation processes we’re here to help. Just get in touch at info@realityhr.co.uk.
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