What is Onboarding?
Onboarding is the period between someone accepting your offer and becoming genuinely effective in the role. In most companies it is a checklist one person carries in their head, starting on day one and ending when the file is complete.
QHRM Onboarding treats it as a designed journey instead. It starts the moment the candidate accepts, runs across every team that has a part to play, and continues past day one into the months where the person actually becomes productive.
Because it sits inside the HR system, the accepted candidate arrives from Hiring already known — no retyping, no lost promises — and becomes an employee record in People without a second data-entry project.
Key Features & Benefits
Pre-Boarding
The most dangerous weeks in a new hire's life are after they accept and before they arrive. Scheduled communications and early tasks keep the relationship alive instead of spending that period in silence.
Journey Builder
Build journeys with phases, task dependencies and rule-based routing. A warehouse hire and a regional director should not get the same first week.
Task Routing
The right work reaches the right team automatically. HR stops acting as a switchboard between IT, facilities, finance and the manager.
Manager Preparation
The difference between a good first week and a bad one is almost entirely the manager's preparation — so hand them a view of exactly what to do and when.
Buddies and Cohorts
Buddy nomination and pairing with accept and decline, plus cohort management so group intakes are run as a group.
Bottleneck Reporting
Completion rates, flags, bottlenecks and cost reporting. Most companies have opinions about their onboarding; very few have evidence.
Who Needs Onboarding?
HR teams running frequent intakes
Anyone onboarding in cohorts, across locations, or at a volume where a checklist in one person's head has stopped scaling.
Managers receiving new hires
The highest-leverage person in the process and usually the least supported. Manager Hub is built for them.
Multi-site and multi-entity organisations
Where a first week has to differ by location and role but still meet the same standard everywhere.
Companies with attrition in the first 90 days
If people are leaving before they become productive, the cause is almost always in this window.
Related Products & Resources
Engagement
Surveys at defined moments in the journey, and the announcements that welcome them.
Read moreFrequently Asked Questions
When does onboarding start in QHRM?
The moment a candidate accepts. Pre-boarding runs across the weeks before day one, which is the period most companies spend in silence and the period where accepted offers are most often lost.
Can different roles get different onboarding?
Yes. The journey builder supports phases, task dependencies and rule-based routing, so journeys differ by role, location and cohort while keeping the parts that protect you consistent.
Does QHRM create IT accounts automatically?
No. Provisioning is coordinated as tasks routed to your IT team, with visible status and completion — QHRM does not execute account creation in third-party systems.
Does equipment get ordered automatically?
No. Equipment provisioning appears as a task assigned to the responsible team, so nothing is missed, but a person completes it.
How do we know whether our onboarding is working?
Surveys at defined moments plus completion, flag and bottleneck reporting, so you can see which stage stalls and for which cohort.
What happens when onboarding finishes?
The hire is already an employee record in People, with documents, reporting lines and history in place — there is no handover step to lose.
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