New Hire Survey Benefits

In the employee satisfaction world, most of the attention is placed on the opinions/thoughts of the long time workforce – the people that work for the company that management hopes is going to stick around for a while. Employees satisfaction is gauged to provide employers with an idea of how positively employees currently view the company and, presumably, how likely they are to remain productive and commit to the company. But there are other types of surveys, and one of them – the New Hire Survey – may provide similar, if not identical benefits.

New hire surveys are surveys completed to help employers understand the effectiveness of the hiring process. In general, employee satisfaction surveys are designed to affect three things: Retention/Commitment Productivity Satisfaction These same benefits can come from new hire surveys, provided you know how to use the data. Some examples include: Retention/Commitment – The better the hiring process in terms of getting someone excited for the workplace, integrating them well into their department, and so on, all help improve retention and commitment.

The more prepared and comfortable someone is when they start a job, the more likely they won’t be leaving right away. Productivity – Productivity may be affected by a number of different attributes, but above all, training will help improve productivity early on (which is often a part of new hire surveys), and an effective hiring strategy will also be more likely to find the best employees. Satisfaction – It’s also easy to see how satisfaction may improve – at least when it comes to future satisfaction.

An effective hiring process is going to attract the best possible employees, and potentially improve long term outlook. All of the goals listed above are the goals of employee satisfaction surveys, and all of these can also be accomplished with new hire surveys.

Employee satisfaction surveys are still very important. It’s always useful to make sure that your long term employees are not suffering from poor satisfaction, otherwise your best employees may leave you. Similarly, there are many things that affect long term employees that have not yet affected new hires. But new hire surveys also help address many of the goals of employee satisfaction surveys, implying that, in general, they may be nearly as useful and just as easy to complete.