Grow with quality using these systems to track applicants and onboard new hires
These two systems are built on the same foundation in Notion. They centralize all the important info for applicants and new employees, saving you — and everyone on your team — valuable time in the hiring and onboarding processes.
- In this piece, you'll learn
- What are your current systems for hiring and onboarding?
- How to set up your hiring and onboarding systems
- 1. A database that tracks everything
- 2. Organize your systems
- 3. Every page can be customized
- 4. Standardize your process with templates
- 5. Best practices from the Notion hiring team
Setting up systems for tracking applicants and onboarding new employees is the most high-leverage thing HR professionals can do for their company. You're on the front lines of growth and setting up new employees for success — challenges that pay longterm dividends once you're able to juggle all the balls associated with these processes.
Here, we'll show you step-by-step how to build the foundation for two systems in Notion that are tailored specifically to human resources and people ops teams: one for tracking applicants, one for onboarding. We've seen them have incredible impact for teams who are able to find the right talent and give them the tools they need to flourish.
In this piece, you'll learn
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To create two databases — one for applicant tracking and one for onboarding that systemize your processes for scale.
- 2
To organize and customize these databases to meet your team's needs.
- 3
Best practices from the Notion People Ops team for more effective hiring and onboarding.
Pretty soon, you'll have two systems that look like this: