New hires take a lot of time to be fully productive because most organizations lack a comprehensive on-boarding or induction training program. Surveys show that inductees lose between 40 and 80 percent of their productivity in their first month due to lack of sufficient training. Those companies that do train their new hires tend to train them all at one go, most likely by taking them to the head office, which can get very expensive very fast. Many employees quit soon after being trained (we call them “train-drains”) and work for another company, making your expensive training program a sunk cost. Additional research shows that 9 out of 10 new hires fail within the first 18 months because of poor engagement.

With Courseplay, training is a one-time expense, allowing employers to streamline the on-boarding process and train inductees around the year with the same content. Employers can create personalized induction portals to welcome, train and engage new hires even before their first day of work, and track their progress with live metrics. Training can now be conducted online around the clock and around the year, which means that all the new hires still get to communicate and interact with each other, and exchange their questions, comments and concerns. Around-the-year hiring becomes a breeze. With a lower cost of training, the sunk cost of training “train-drains” is much lower. You can also conduct psychometric and aptitude tests through Courseplay to judge which position your new hire may be best suited to work in.