Numerous studies have proven the importance of onboarding for the successful induction and integration of new hires in any company/organisation. Since the COVID pandemic, organisations unable to provide onboarding in less traditional people-led, face-to-face ways were faced with challenges.

The aim of the project Digital Onboarding is to create a methodology and provide tools for this very important process (to both employers and employees), as well as training for those implementing digital onboarding in their organisations (e.g. HR), in order to maximize efficiencies and effectiveness of onboarding, especially in cases of frequent or large-scale recruitment. Successful onboarding results in higher employee satisfaction and retention rates and this project aims to help this.

The project DIGITAL ONBOARDING objectives are:

• Develop Digital Onboarding Methodology for setting new hires for success and decrease time for them to become proficient in their new roles.
• Identification of a set of open source tools suitable for digital onboarding purposes like e-Learning, VR, Automatic translation, multilingual Text-to-Voice Synthesizers.
• Develop a training course on the Digital Onboarding Methodology and tools.