Onboarding in education is hard enough when everything’s joined up. So imagine trying to onboard around 300 new hires a year, across more than 130 hiring managers, using email chains, Word doc contracts and a lot of manual chasing.
That’s where Windsor Forest Colleges Group found themselves. Their small recruitment team was working incredibly hard, but onboarding had become slow, manual and error-prone. It often took up to eight weeks, which is far too long in a competitive education labour market. It was costing them great people and driving up recruitment costs.
Despite their best efforts, Windsor Forest were battling a heap of challenges:
- Disconnected systems and paper-based processes
- Endless email chains and manual chasing
- Little to no visibility of onboarding progress
- Frustrated, overloaded hiring managers
- Candidates left in limbo, unsure what was happening
- Onboarding drop-outs and costly readvertising
- Compliance that was hard to track and evidence
That’s where Tribepad Onboarding came in…
Tribepad Onboarding just works. The process just runs. There’s practically zero intervention needed from us. We can easily make changes ourselves if we need to. But it just does what it’s meant to do. So we can get on with everything else.
With Tribepad Onboarding, Windsor Forest Colleges Group now enjoy:
- Time-in-onboarding cut by up to 50%, getting new hires in four weeks faster
- Noticeably fewer onboarding drop-outs, and lower readvertising costs
- Near-zero manual intervention: no more lost documents or chasing referees
- Real-time traffic light visibility for recruiters and managers
- Cast-iron compliance confidence, with audit-ready records in one place
- Happier hiring managers and more engaged, productive new hires
- A recruitment team with the headspace to grow: building skills, recruiting proactively and improving their careers site 💪🏻
