A magical new hire onboarding experience gives people clear expectations, manageable pacing, useful resources, human connection, and early feedback. The best onboarding practices remove uncertainty without overwhelming the person or automating away the relationships that help them belong.

In this episode of the Employee Onboarding Podcast, Process Street People leaders Ashley Chain and Erin Rice explain how they designed that experience for a remote company. Their examples cover the company-wide process, department handoffs, preboarding, personalization, buddy relationships, and feedback after the first week and again after ramp-up.

Learning how to make a podcast can feel like a huge technical leap, but it is really just a process you can run from start to end each time you want to write, record, and publish a new episode. This step-by-step guide works for first-time podcasters and veterans alike, and it walks beginners through the whole journey: planning and recording, formatting the audio, publishing to the major directories, and earning your first listeners. None of it requires a recording studio or a sound engineering degree, only a clear process you follow every time you hit record.

The approach here pairs a sound engineer and audio editor’s perspective on what actually matters in audio with four battle-tested checklists. The first, the Podcast Publishing Checklist, was built in-house at Process Street, and three more were written by the fantastic James Schramko from SuperFastBusiness, a man who truly knows his stuff about sound. We first saw those three checklists in the blog post The Formula for Creating a 1,000,000 Download Podcast on OkDork.

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Podcasts are like hacks for your everyday life. They allow you to passively improve your knowledge and gain valuable insight into almost any topic you could imagine, whilst doing pretty much anything.

All of that time spent walking to the store, commuting to work, preparing a meal, working out; it’s all time you could be utilizing to improve yourself and your business.

Business Systems Explored was Process Street’s podcast about the systems behind growing companies. Season one collected 29 small business podcast interviews with founders, operators, marketers, sales leaders, and process experts on how work becomes repeatable.

These interviews cover video marketing, startup marketing, growth strategy, outbound sales, customer success, hiring, delegation, PR, SEO, and systemizing a business from scratch. If you want a practical route through the season, start with the themes below, then browse the selected episode write-ups from the Process Street archive.

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Onboarding isn’t just about introductions and paperwork—it’s about ensuring new hires feel equipped and engaged from day one. In this episode of the Employee Onboarding Podcast, Erin Rice speaks with HR expert Caroline Yost about the one thing most onboarding processes get wrong: a lack of clear expectations.

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Onboarding should foster human connection

Most companies treat onboarding as a structured process of paperwork, policies, and productivity expectations. However, according to Jen Bergren, onboarding expert and knowledge management strategist, one essential element is often missing: human connection.

In this episode of the Employee Onboarding Podcast, Jen shares insights from her research and experience on why successful onboarding is about fostering relationships, confidence, and belonging from day one.

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Onboarding isn’t just an HR process. It’s the foundation for business growth. From creating white-glove candidate experiences to aligning stakeholders early, Megan Weizel, Managing Partner and Career Strategist at Salmela, shares actionable strategies that will change how you think about recruiting, onboarding, and keeping top talent.

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Victoria Cooke’s path to HR wasn’t typical—and that’s exactly why her insights stand out. A former large-scale event planner, Victoria now sees onboarding as an experience to be designed, not a box-ticking exercise. As Manager of People and Culture at Happy Money, she joined Erin Rice on the Employee Onboarding Podcast to share her secrets for creating authentic, high-impact onboarding processes.

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We’ll be joined by Erin ImHof, Human Resources Director at CertiK. She’s an HR expert with 17 years of experience across industries like technology, education, and manufacturing. 

Erin will share her insights on how to create a welcoming and efficient onboarding experience, especially in remote work environments.

Whether you’re part of a small startup or a large organization, this episode is packed with practical advice to help you improve your onboarding process and set your new hires up for success. 

Here’s what we’re going to cover in this episode:

• Meet our guest: Erin ImHof
• The importance of effective onboarding
• Challenges of onboarding in remote teams
• Proven strategies for successful onboarding
• Continuous improvement in the onboarding process
• Creating a Warm Welcome

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Welcome to the Employee Onboarding Podcast, where we explore the best practices and innovative ideas from the world’s top HR professionals and thought leaders. The topic for this podcast: What really makes a successful onboarding process.

Today, we’ll be joined by Maxine Dorkin, a dynamic professional in the youth employment sector and currently a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. 

Maxine’s impressive journey includes managing work readiness programs that have impacted over 5,000 unemployed youth, extensive experience in the nonprofit sector, and a pivot into the technology space where she now excels in designing and facilitating onboarding programs.

Join us as we uncover Maxine’s insights on how to align personal values with organizational missions, the importance of community in the workplace, and strategies to enhance employee engagement and retention. 

This conversation provides practical takeaways for any HR professional looking to elevate their onboarding process.

Here’s what we’re going to cover in this episode:

• Introducing Maxine Dorkin
• A little about employee onboarding
• The key pieces to a successful onboarding experience
• Creating a sense of belonging
• The role of culture in onboarding
• Advice for HR professionals
• Creating lasting impressions

Let’s get started!

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