# Employee onboarding

Coordinate an approved employee start from preboarding and minimum access through first-week readiness and follow-up.

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**Template ID:** employee-onboarding-checklist
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**Planning anchor:** Employee start date — The official first day; readiness tasks are scheduled before it and early support follows it.

## Prepare

Confirm authoritative records, ownership, role context, and first-day logistics.

- [ ] **Confirm the authorized start and HR record** — High priority · Due 10 days before the planning anchor
  Verify in the HR system that the hire, official start date, manager, role, work location, and onboarding owners are authorized.
  - [ ] Authoritative HR onboarding record is active
  - [ ] Manager and operational owners are recorded

- [ ] **Route required HR and payroll workflows** — High priority · Due 9 days before the planning anchor
  Assign approved source-system workflows for employment documents, payroll, tax, benefits, eligibility, and policy acknowledgements.
  - [ ] Required specialist workflows have owners
  - [ ] Sensitive details remain in approved systems

- [ ] **Prepare the role and first-week plan** — High priority · Due 7 days before the planning anchor
  Ask the manager to define role purpose, immediate priorities, key relationships, decision boundaries, and one useful first outcome.
  - [ ] Role context and current priorities are ready
  - [ ] A realistic first useful outcome is defined

- [ ] **Confirm first-day logistics and welcome owner** — Medium priority · Due 5 days before the planning anchor
  Confirm approved arrival or remote-login instructions, time zone, workspace readiness, and the person responsible for the welcome handoff.
  - [ ] Approved first-day instructions are delivered
  - [ ] Welcome and contingency owner is named

## Access & equipment

Fulfill approved device, account, security, and workplace readiness requests.

- [ ] **Prepare and record approved equipment** — High priority · Due 5 days before the planning anchor
  Fulfill the authorized device and workplace request, record assets in inventory, and verify delivery or collection arrangements.
  - [ ] Issued assets are recorded in inventory
  - [ ] Secure delivery or collection is confirmed

- [ ] **Provision the approved role-baseline access** — High priority · Due 3 days before the planning anchor
  Create required accounts from the approved role baseline and route every exception through the organization’s access-request process.
  - [ ] Access matches the approved role baseline
  - [ ] Every exception has an accountable approval

- [ ] **Verify security and recovery readiness** — High priority · Due 1 day before the planning anchor
  Confirm required device controls, authentication enrollment, approved recovery path, security contacts, and initial security learning.
  - [ ] Required authentication controls are enrolled
  - [ ] Employee knows the approved recovery and reporting path

## First week

Provide context, relationships, learning, and a useful first work milestone.

- [ ] **Deliver the manager welcome and role context** — High priority · Due on the planning anchor
  Review team purpose, role expectations, current priorities, communication norms, decision boundaries, and the first-week plan.
  - [ ] Role expectations and priorities are reviewed
  - [ ] Open questions have owners and follow-up dates

- [ ] **Complete critical team introductions** — Medium priority · Due 2 days after the planning anchor
  Introduce the people needed for immediate work and explain each relationship, responsibility, and preferred collaboration channel.
  - [ ] Introductions focus on immediate working relationships
  - [ ] Purpose and collaboration context are explained

- [ ] **Start required role and policy learning** — Medium priority · Due 3 days after the planning anchor
  Assign the authoritative learning modules and role-specific material with realistic due dates and a named question owner.
  - [ ] Required learning is assigned in its source system
  - [ ] Employee knows where to take policy questions

- [ ] **Start the first useful work outcome** — Medium priority · Due 4 days after the planning anchor
  Give the employee a bounded, supported piece of real work with clear success criteria, source context, and review timing.
  - [ ] Scope and success criteria are clear
  - [ ] Reviewer and help path are available

## Follow-up

Resolve gaps, review access, and confirm the next onboarding milestone.

- [ ] **Run the first-week check-in** — Medium priority · Due 5 days after the planning anchor
  Review readiness gaps, workload clarity, relationships, learning progress, access problems, and the next useful milestone.
  - [ ] Readiness gaps have accountable owners
  - [ ] Next milestone and support cadence are agreed

- [ ] **Review access and equipment against actual work** — High priority · Due 7 days after the planning anchor
  Confirm each material access grant and issued asset remains needed, resolve missing access, and remove inappropriate exceptions.
  - [ ] Material grants are reviewed against current duties
  - [ ] Missing or excessive exceptions are resolved

- [ ] **Confirm authoritative onboarding records are complete** — Medium priority · Due 10 days after the planning anchor
  Ask each specialist owner to close or escalate outstanding HR, payroll, security, training, equipment, and workplace records.
  - [ ] Authoritative onboarding records are current
  - [ ] Outstanding exceptions have owners and deadlines

## Done

Verified onboarding work moves here after its source-system outcome is complete.

_Move completed work here._

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Source: https://sealtask.com/templates/employee-onboarding-checklist/
License: https://sealtask.com/terms/#public-templates
Privacy notice: This public artifact is plaintext. After import, readable project content is encrypted on your device; operational metadata such as identifiers, relationships, priority, state, timing, and counts remains visible to the service.
Usage notice: This template is general operational guidance, not legal, medical, tax, security, employment, compliance, or other professional advice. It does not establish compliance, and its publication is not evidence of outside professional review or approval. Review and adapt it with the responsible organizational owners, and obtain appropriate professional advice before regulated use.
Template version: 1