Great tips to make onboarding a better experience for the employer and new employees! Did you know we developed onboarding videos in English and Spanish for tree fruit orchard and packinghouse workers? Let me know if you work for our industry and would like a copy.
Here are a few tips to make farmworker onboardings smoother and faster from witnessing countless Harvust grower hiring events. These are in no particular order and are so easy you could try them on your next hire: - Play low music in background?so it's not so awkwardly quiet. - Have adequate seating because people are going to be waiting around no matter how fast your process is. - Please have signs pointing out bathrooms for brand new people. - Separate candidates into those with a phone and without. Those without a phone shouldn't make those with a phone wait extra long. - Ask workers to fill out documents on their own, some documents are simple enough they can do this while you focus on complicated documents like the I-9. - Ask workers to take a selfie for their employee ID badge photos: saves you time and hassle. - Have multiple hiring stations but one line, so people don't feel the need to strategize lines like at the grocery store. - Good lighting is critical if you want to scan IDs and have the info pre-populate the employee's I-9. - Hold your hiring event in a location with good cell service and WiFi: this will enable your laptop to work better, and workers to use their phones. - Have employees do their training while they wait: saves them time. - Give each new hire your business card: start building that HR relationship now. - Have water for yourself: you're going to be doing a lot of talking I write a lot on agriculture HR and tips for ag employers, and at www.harvust (.) com
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7 个月FYI we have all of your videos included in Harvust’s training module and our growers love them!