Nail the First 90 Days with Smarter Onboarding

Employee onboarding is your chance to set expectations, build culture, and retain talent from day one.


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Why this checklist matters

A new hire’s first few weeks shape their experience, and your results. But when you’re juggling everything else, it’s easy to miss key steps that make onboarding impactful.

This employee onboarding checklist gives you a practical, people-first framework to follow. It’s built to help you:

  • Build connection and clarity from day one

  • Cover compliance and legal essentials

  • Set performance expectations early

  • Avoid common employee onboarding challenges that cause confusion or disengagement

It’s a self-assessment guide to creating the kind of good onboarding process that sets your people up for success and supports retention long-term.

If you want to deliver the best employee onboarding experiences without starting from scratch, this tool is a time-saving shortcut. Download it now!

 

FAQs About the Checklist

  • Employee onboarding is the process of integrating a new hire into your business. It includes everything from legal paperwork and tech setup to culture-building and role clarity. A good onboarding process reduces early turnover, increases productivity, and helps employees feel confident in their role from the start.

  • This checklist covers the key stages of a successful onboarding journey. You’ll find tasks and reminders around documentation, compliance, communication, performance expectations, and culture-building. It’s more than a staff onboarding checklist, it’s a simple tool to guide a meaningful experience that sets new hires up for long-term success.

  • It’s designed specifically for SME owners and managers in New Zealand. If you’re wearing multiple hats and need a clear, practical employee onboarding checklist, this tool will help you deliver a structured, stress-free experience without reinventing the wheel.

  • Yes! it’s more than just a scorecard. Once you complete it, you’ll see clear suggestions based on your results. Whether your score shows strong foundations or some gaps, you’ll know what areas to focus on next.

  • The checklist helps you avoid delays, confusion, and compliance gaps, some of the most common employee onboarding challenges. It also ensures key touchpoints like welcome messages, clear job expectations, and feedback loops aren’t overlooked in the rush of day-to-day operations.

  • Nope. We’ll send you the checklist, and you may get the occasional helpful resource or update from the team at Core HR, but no spam, no clutter. Just useful, practical HR support for your business.