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Kansas State University aims to be an employer of choice for recruiting and retaining top talent. The university strives to create a positive and inclusive working culture where everyone is informed, engaged, and has a strong employment relationship with one’s manager / supervisor and colleagues. The foundation for this environment can be created through onboarding. Well engaged employees become champions of K-State 2025 through K-State’s mission, goals and initiatives.

What is Onboarding? Onboarding is more than completing new hire paperwork or attending orientation. Onboarding is a collaborative, strategic approach that provides new employees with the needed information, tools, and resources to effectively meet organizational goals. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, nine out of 10 employees decide whether they will stay or leave an organization within the first six months and the Human Capital Institute suggests engaging new hires in an effective onboarding program can maximize retention, engagement, and productivity.

Onboarding aims to:

  • Increase new employee productivity by training the new employee about the department, college/unit, and university.
  • Improve retention rates of new employees within all employee groups by providing a wide array of information that employees need in order to feel engaged, successful, and connected.
  • Provide audience-specific, in-depth, timely information over an extended period of time, so that information is useful and memorable for the new employee.
  • Streamline processes and provide best practice information to enable managers/supervisors to deliver high-quality, consistent, and accurate information systemically to all new employees.
  • Foster an environment of employee engagement, where employees feel that Kansas State University is a great place to work.

Why is effective onboarding beneficial?

  • Builds K-State’s and your college/department’s reputation for being a thoughtful employer with excellent training, clear leadership, and a strong organization.
  • Helps retain your senior staff members.
  • Reduces high turnover costs.
  • Supports new colleagues and quickly moves them to efficient productivity levels.
  • Builds better team relationships across the department/college.

More information and tools are available in the Hiring Toolkit: Onboarding Guide.

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