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HR presents new-hire essentials checklist to standardize department onboarding
Summary
DeKalb County human resources presented a new ‘new-hire essentials’ checklist for departmental onboarding to ensure consistency across merit and non-merit employees; staff will distribute the checklist to departments and reinforce adoption at HR meetings.
Benita Ransom, director of Human Resources, briefed the IRPS committee on a countywide review of department-level onboarding and presented a proposed "new-hire essentials" checklist intended to standardize onboarding across departments.
Ransom said county HR runs a biweekly new-employee onboarding that covers county structure, policies and benefits and that roughly 99% of employees participate. A survey of departments found most have some onboarding, checklists and designated onboarding coordinators, though eight departments lacked a formal onboarding process. The proposed checklist would require departments to provide organizational charts, supervisory contacts, department mission/vision, absence-management procedures, payroll and safety coordinator contacts, instructions for accessing county systems (e.g., CV360), I-9 and tax form completion, standard operating procedures and access to department webpages. HR plans to distribute the checklist to all departments and to reinforce it via the New Employee Orientation (NEO) and HR policy council.
Commissioners praised the work and asked HR to return for more discussion if needed; no committee action was required.
