Using a Personalized Onboarding Checklist To Wow Your New Hires (+ Template)

Cat DiStasio has created an onboarding checklist template you can download and use to wow your new hires – and it's free!

Great onboarding programs set the tone for an employee’s experience, and can in many cases make the difference between a productive, engaged new hire and one who may quit well before their first year service anniversary. You and your team have likely already spent tons of time and energy developing an effective, inclusive onboarding program, and that’s a solid start. However, to ensure your onboarding program creates the impact you seek, it helps to have other tools in place that make it easier for your team – and the managers of new employees – to carry out your plan.

We’ve saved you the trouble of having to create an onboarding checklist from scratch. Our editable template allows you to customize an onboarding checklist to reflect the unique details of your onboarding program and each new employee you hire. Using this resource, you can track all the important steps of your onboarding process and ensure they happen when and how you want them to, setting your new hires up for success within your organization.

We realize companies have lots of different types of employees these days, from 100% onsite to hybrid to fully remote. Assuming your onboarding program was created with remote engagement in mind, this onboarding checklist can be used with all of your new hires, regardless of their work arrangements.

About the onboarding checklist template 

• To make the checklist easy to use and share, we’ve designed it as a Google Sheet. Simply make a copy of the sheet, name it whatever you want, and edit as needed to reflect your onboarding program.
• Make a copy and personalize the checklist for each new hire so that it’s specific to their role and experience.  
• Because most onboarding programs are outlined on a set timeline, we’ve organized our onboarding checklist template the same way. This makes it easy to see what needs to happen next, and to ensure that all steps within the current time period have been completed before moving on to the next section.

Leveraging this (free!) tool will help you and your team deliver a thorough, consistent onboarding experience for all your new employees, and help support them as they integrate with your culture and organization.

Click here to download our free onboarding checklist template and start using it with your next hire!