Why Your Employee Turnover Is Higher Than It Should Be

You’ve set up an ideal recruiting process. Your careers page is state of the art, it even contains virtual tours of all of your offices, your ATS is robust, and the VR headsets you bring to events generate more interest than ever before. You’ve spent months making sure your recruiters and hiring managers are in regular communication with the candidate at each step. Finally, after reviewing multiple competitive offers, your top 2 candidates both accept their offers to join the company, you have just filled two major managerial positions! You sit back and relax.

Two weeks later you get an email from the first candidate, who was meant to start next month saying they have decided to go another direction. The second candidate starts as expected, but a month into the job they also pack up and leave. So what happened? Let’s discuss. Hint: it’s not because your salary offer and benefits packages weren’t good enough.

It’s because your onboarding is broken.

In the time between accepting the job offer and quitting, the candidate develops doubts that go unaddressed and fester. They wonder whether they can contribute to the company’s mission; they’re unsure whether their personality and background fits into company culture; they don’t know what other departments even do!

Instead of addressing any of these concerns, the following happens: prior to their first day, they are welcomed by… instructions on how to enroll in the company’s HRIS. During that first day when they are most impressionable, they sit through hour long powerpoint lectures to learn about how to set up and use IT resources. While they are trying to understand more about the company, their manager walks them through their day-to-day responsibilities and sends them away. Not too much time passes before they quit.

eevo can make sure this doesn’t happen to your company. With eevo’s interactive technology, new hires can clearly understand company culture and mission by meeting with execs, seeing how employees interact with each other by touring your offices, and learn about the company’s structure in an engaging way — all from their computer, in VR, or on their mobile device at their leisure.

These experiences let new hires start assimilating into the company culture and reduce employee turnover. With an immersive experience, 92% of new employees report high satisfaction with their onboarding. If you want to learn more about creating engaging onboarding content, reach out on eevo.com.