In a recent study by The Aberdeen Group*, 86 percent of all respondents agreed that new hires make their decision about whether or not to stay at the company within the first six months on the job. Companies spend a significant amount of time and money to hire new employees, so it is essential for companies to hire people whose skills fit the requirements of the open positions, streamline the onboarding process, and accelerate the time new employees take to become productive.

Software and services from SAP and SAP partners can help you to improve collaboration and efficiency across your organisation in planning for, recruiting, orienting, and training new hires in a way that improves the employee experience, accelerates time-to-productivity, and protects the new-hire investment.

With SAP software and services, we can help you:

• Increase the number of applicants viewed, speed up the recruitment process, and attract better employees by linking job requisitions directly with Internet job exchanges
• Enhance the benefits enrollment experience through employee self-services

Participation and Reach

By using the familiar, friendly Microsoft Office tools in Duet and Adobe tools in SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe as an interface to the SAP Human Capital Management application, employees and managers can perform required activities and even access personnel data without having to learn how to use an entirely new system – thereby increasing employee satisfaction and user adoption.

Organisational Transparency

Operational and human resources managers often lack accurate and timely information to make informed personnel decisions. Through the use of portals, dashboards and visualisation tools, organisations can aggregate and view employee data in one location – regardless of the system where the data resides. This can enable managers and employees to better monitor progress, distribute information to targeted audiences, and make better and faster decisions regarding recruiting and onboarding initiatives.

By integrating the processes of recruiting, onboarding, and training, your company can provide a positive experience for new employees – one that increases employee retention and improves time-to-productivity while protecting your recruiting, onboarding, and training investment.

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*Study entitled All Aboard: Effective Onboarding Techniques and Strategies, by Kevin Martin, January 2008.