The standard practices of your HR function have the capability to produce high-performing daily operations, or to bring them and the company to a screeching halt. Your established methods for all HR practices, from benefits and compensation allocation, vacation scheduling and employee orientation should be engineered to fit the needs of the current business environment. If you’re lacking in this area, the shortfalls are bound to trickle down into the rest of the company.

Do you have a strategized timeline that details what happens when a new hire joins your team? At what stage in the recruitment process must they have completed the onboarding program? If you are unable to answer these questions, or you believe your current method is falling short of success, implementing an optimized employee onboarding system can transform your new hire applications.

For HR experts presented with the task of turning a new recruit into a valuable member of the company team, tailored onboarding can benefit everything from their time management and performance to the new employee’s relationship with their role.

The employee is gifted with form filling software that means they only have to enter their basic information once, removing the need for them to sit and manually enter their own name or address several times over. You might not have considered how your current HR standard practice holds back new hires, and going completely paperless with a robust system custom designed for your company can have a huge impact on this process.

With a bank of accurate data relating to your new hire, the HR department can smoothly input them into all of your standard practice systems – payroll, benefits, and training and wellness programs.

When it comes to tracking metric data trends within your company, file storage and sharing systems built-in to your onboarding software mean determining the specifics of the best performing talent is easy. A correlation of the best companies and institutions that produce critical talent can be seen through files easily shared and reported across the entire human resources team. These files are backed-up with security software that means private data will remain private, and only those granted access to them will be able to view, edit or share them.

Any changes or updates to your standard practices have the potential to upset the daily equilibrium of your organization, so their introduction must be seamless to avoid causing delays and issues with common operations. A software system that can be tailor-made for your business, and implemented and designed alongside your existing processes reduces the threat of complications and hold-ups.

The modern definition of HR is very different to the traditional concept of people management. The human resource departments of today must be computer fluent, equipped with technology that enables them to perform a multitude of business functions. All organizations must now look to bring their tech up to speed, and in doing so will transform the capability of their standard practice applications.