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Onboarding New Hires

Onboard new hires by distributing new joiner form and review their submission

Written by StaffAny
Updated today

Contents of this article are applicable to the following users

Product: HRAny

Platform: Web

Access Level: Manager/Owner

When you're preparing a new hire to join your company, you may want to collect their details before adding them as an official headcount in StaffAny. The Onboarding flow lets you send a new joiner form, track submission progress, review the submitted details, and then complete the process by adding the person into your organization.

This guide will cover how to:

Onboard New Hires

  1. Go to HR > Onboarding > Start Onboarding

  2. Under Onboarding Setup, select a New Joiner Form

  1. You can add up to 50 new hires during this process. Under New Hire Details, enter the new hire's:

  • First Name

  • Phone Number (new hire will receive SMS to this number containing the URL to their new joiner form)

  1. Repeat the step above for each new hire you want to add.

  2. Click Start Onboarding. The new hires will receive an SMS containing the new joiner form URL. At this point, the new hires are not counted towards the headcount in StaffAny.

Review Submitted Onboarding Details

  1. Go to HR.

  2. Click Onboarding.

  3. Review the onboarding list.

To add new hire as staff as official headcount in StaffAny:

  1. Open the relevant onboarding entry.

  2. Review the submitted information by tab.

  3. Click Add Staff if you are ready to continue adding the employee into StaffAny.

Fill out the mandatory parts if it’s not been filled yet. The rest of the fields can be filled at a later time. The mandatory fields are:

  1. First Name

  2. Phone Number

  3. Contract Type

  4. Access Level

  5. Sections

  6. Effective Date

  7. Citizenship (and the fields related to each type of citizenship)

  8. Identity Type

  9. Identity Number

  10. Payment Method

  11. Fields in custom employee fields section

FAQ

Q: Do I need a new joiner form before I can start onboarding?

Yes. Onboarding requires you to have (and select) an active New Joiner Form.

Q: Can I start onboarding for multiple new hires at once?

Yes. You can add multiple new hire rows in one onboarding setup, up to 50 rows.

Q: Can I select different forms for different new hires in the same onboarding setup?

No. The onboarding currently setup supports selecting one new joiner form for the new hires being added in that setup. If you need to use different forms,then you need to start multiple onboardings.

Q: Can new hires open the form without logging in?

Yes. The form is served through a public web link. Anyone with the link can fill out the form. Forms created during the onboarding process are linked to new hires’ name and phone number.

Q: When does a new hire become an official headcount?

The new hire is not counted as an official headcount yet until they are added as staff.

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