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The Onboarding Journey: Empowering New Hires for Long-Term Success

Web Editorial Team Editor

2024-09-17 3 min

In today's competitive job market, attracting and retaining top talent is crucial for the success of an organization. As a leading company in the industry, we understand the significance of effective onboarding in ensuring the long-term commitment and engagement of new employees. Therefore, our priority lies in creating a warm and welcoming culture when integrating new hires into the Bosch Rexroth team.

Creating a positive onboarding experience:

Your first days at a new company are crucial. Getting off to a good start means you’re more likely to want to stay at the company in the long term. This is why effective onboarding goes beyond simply introducing new employees to their job responsibilities and tasks. It encompasses a holistic approach that helps familiarizing them with the company's values, culture and goals.

Furthermore, new employees need to be equipped with the necessary tools and knowledge to succeed in their positions. Our onboarding experience offers opportunities for growth and skill development, enabling them to quickly adapt to their new environment, reach their full potential and contribute to the organization's success.

At Bosch Rexroth, we strive to make new hires feel supported and valued from day one. This is why our onboarding process doesn’t just include a structured onboarding plan and virtual e-learnings. We take the time to introduce employees to their team and cross-departmental colleagues and assign buddies in their team – all of which helps them to make more personal connections.

Therefore, our approach includes regular touchpoints with various departments during the span of their first year, with the first contact starting even before the first day of work. Besides get-to-know meetings with their team, functional interfaces and HR, employees get invited to different onboarding events that focus on cross-location and cross-departmental networking during which existing colleagues mentor the new ones with tips and tricks for their start.

By investing in their success and well-being from the beginning, we foster a positive work environment and set the stage for long-term employee engagement and organizational success.

What do our associates think?

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Graeme Baird – Controlling Manager in Glenrothes, Scotland

I have been with Bosch Rexroth for 23 years, covering a variety of different roles, from Assembly Associate, through to Purchasing, Service, Sales and now my current role in Controlling.

Although my onboarding experiences have always been positive, it is clear that there is a far greater emphasis and structure applied to the onboarding process now than there has been in the past.

A detailed onboarding plan is developed and a “welcome pack” is provided in order to help with familiarization in the role. My most recent move was even supported with an opportunity to spend time at the Bosch Rexroth headquarters, which was an excellent way to help my integration into the Bosch Rexroth Controlling community.

Alina Wagner – Trainer Digital Supply Chain in Wuerzburg, Germany

It is especially important for new employees to really get to know and understand a large company like Bosch Rexroth. At the beginning of my new role, this meant I didn’t just learn facts and information, I learned about the company culture and the way of collaboration.

Therefore, I’ve been part of the team responsible for building a new digital onboarding learning path. The project was started based on the feedback we received from new employees about what they need for a successful start. The digital learning path helps to integrate new employees into the company, by including both cultural and professional information. The path’s onboarding journey then accompanies them throughout their entire first year at their own pace, supporting them as they settle into their role. We continue to develop our onboarding learning path by regularly collecting feedback from new employees.

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Carlos Andres Cerda Robledo – Supply Chain Manager in Queretaro, Mexico

I joined the company in 2017, initially as trainee rotating in different areas and locations for one and a half years. This can be challenging, however, I was lucky because in every new location the team brought me up to speed and helped me build solid friendships. This is not a coincidence – thanks to having a robust and standardized onboarding process in place, you feel prepared to quickly start collaborating towards the team objectives.

I left the company in 2020 due to a personal decision, and of all the things I missed, the biggest was being made to feel like I was really part of my team. I’ve since rejoined the Bosch Rexroth division and it feels like I’m with family again.

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