Onboarding
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Onboarding
Build the plan once. Every new hire gets it automatically.
Onboarding plans belong to the role, not to whoever last ran one. A new hire’s schedule is generated from their start date, assigned to the right owners, and tracked to completion — without anyone rebuilding a checklist.
The problem it removes
Onboarding is usually a checklist in someone’s inbox, copied from the last person who did this job.
Which means it decays. Steps get dropped, the IT request is forwarded to someone who left, and the handbook acknowledgement is signed on paper and filed in a drawer. Two hires into the same role get two different experiences, and neither is documented.
Then an auditor asks whether a specific employee signed a specific policy before their first shift — and somebody spends a day proving it.
What happens when someone is hired
No trigger to remember. The plan exists because the role does.
Marking a candidate hired creates their onboarding plan from the role template, with every task dated relative to the start date on the offer.
Equipment, system access, and workspace tasks route to the people responsible, with due dates. Not a forwarded email that may or may not be actioned.
The handbook, policy acknowledgements, and role-specific agreements are signed inside ODS. The signature, the version signed, and the timestamp are stored on the employee record.
Courses attached to the role are assigned automatically as part of the plan. Compliance training happens before it is needed, not after someone notices.
Manager check-ins are scheduled tasks with owners, not a good intention. Incomplete steps are visible while there is still time to fix them.
Why it stays consistent
Templates per role
A field technician and a financial analyst need different onboarding. Each role carries its own plan, so consistency does not mean uniformity.
Improve it once
Update the template and every future hire in that role inherits the change. The program improves instead of drifting.
Visible while it matters
Managers and HR see progress across every active onboarding. A stalled hire is caught in week one, not at the 90-day review.
Your plan, your owners, your day one
Onboarding templates are built with you during implementation. What a new hire does in their first week is your process, configured — not a default checklist you edit down to something workable.
As many role plans as you run
A field technician, a lab analyst, and a controller need different first weeks. Build a template for each role you actually hire into, with its own tasks, owners, and timing.
Task types that fit the work
Checklists, documents to sign, videos to watch, forms to submit, equipment to issue. Each task routes to whoever genuinely owns it, whether that is IT, HR, or the hiring manager.
Your compliance steps built in
A badge request, a background check, a safety orientation before anyone reaches the floor. If your regulator or your customer requires it, it becomes a dated task rather than a reminder.
Where it hands off
← Applicant Tracking
The plan starts because a candidate was hired, dated from the start date already agreed in the offer. The candidate record becomes the employee record — same record, no re-entry.
→ Training
Required courses are assigned as onboarding tasks. Completion writes to the employee’s training history and their skill profile — so the record an auditor asks for is created as a by-product of the work, not assembled afterwards.
Continue through the lifecycle
See onboarding generate itself
On the demo call we mark a candidate hired and let the plan build in front of you — dates, owners, documents, and training, in twenty minutes, using real data rather than slides. We answer your pricing questions on the same call.
