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    The new-hire onboarding checklist

    A printable, ready-to-use checklist that takes a new hire from offer letter to a productive day 90 — pre-boarding, day 1, week 1, and the 30/60/90-day milestones. Free to copy, then build it into a tracked course.

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    Onboarding checklist

    New hire · first week

    Marketing Coordinator · starts Monday

    0%
    • Offer signed & paperwork sent
    • Laptop + accounts ready for day 1
    • Buddy assigned, week 1 booked
    • Manager 1:1 + first-week goals
    • 30-day check-in scheduled
    What's inside

    A complete new-hire checklist, from pre-boarding to day 90.

    This onboarding checklist gives every new hire the same organized start — nothing forgotten, nothing left to memory. It walks a manager through pre-boarding, the first day, the first week, and the 30/60/90-day milestones, with concrete tasks and clear owners at each stage. Print it, copy it into your tools, or let AI turn it into a course new hires complete.

    Pre-boarding

    Before day one

    • Send a warm welcome email with start time, dress code, and first-day agenda
    • Order laptop, phone, and equipment; ship to remote hires early
    • Create accounts and access: email, SSO, Slack, HRIS, role tools
    • Assign a buddy and share the team handbook and org chart
    • Add first-week meetings and required training to their calendar
    Day 1

    A confident first day

    • Greet them, tour the workspace and tools, and confirm every login works
    • Complete I-9, payroll, benefits, and security/IT setup
    • Manager 1:1: role, expectations, and the first-week plan
    • Team standup intro and lunch with the buddy
    Week 1

    Learn the ropes

    • Cover company mission, product, and who the customer is
    • Complete required compliance and policy acknowledgements
    • Shadow a teammate on real work and tools
    • Ship one small, real task end-to-end
    Day 30

    Finding their feet

    • Ramp on role-specific skills and core processes
    • First feedback check-in: what's clear, what's not
    • Confirm they can complete key tasks without help
    Day 60

    Owning the work

    • Own core responsibilities independently
    • Meet the cross-functional partners they'll work with
    • Mid-point review against the 90-day goals
    Day 90

    Fully ramped

    • Operating at full productivity on the role's KPIs
    • 90-day review with clear, documented feedback
    • Set next-quarter goals and a growth path
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    • Printable new-hire checklist (pre-boarding to day 90)
    • 30/60/90-day milestone plan with owners
    • Manager and buddy quick-start guide
    • A ready onboarding course you can launch in ContentBuilder

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    Beyond a doc

    Turn the checklist into a course new hires actually complete.

    A checklist tells people what to do; a ContentBuilder course walks them through it — interactive lessons, AI video, and quizzes, with completion tracked per hire. Drop in this template and launch in minutes.

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    Why it matters

    A good template pays for itself.

    40%

    faster onboarding when every hire follows one standard path

    69%

    more likely to stay three years after structured onboarding

    50%

    greater new-hire productivity with a clear onboarding process

    100+

    languages, so every new hire onboards in their own

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    Onboarding Checklist Template FAQ

    An onboarding checklist is a step-by-step list of everything a new hire needs — from pre-boarding paperwork and equipment to first-week training and 30/60/90-day goals. It standardizes the experience so every new employee gets the same strong start, regardless of who their manager is. Ours covers pre-boarding, day 1, week 1, and the 30/60/90-day milestones.

    At minimum: pre-boarding tasks (welcome email, equipment, accounts, buddy), day-1 setup (I-9, payroll, IT, manager 1:1), first-week learning (product, compliance, shadowing), and 30/60/90-day milestones with clear goals and owners. The template above breaks each stage into concrete, checkable items.

    Both. HR usually owns compliance, payroll, and IT provisioning; the hiring manager owns the role ramp, goals, and day-to-day plan; the buddy handles informal questions. The template assigns an owner to each item so nothing falls between the two.

    Yes — it's free to download and use as an editable doc and a printable PDF, with no credit card required. You can also turn it into a trackable onboarding course in ContentBuilder for free.

    Upload the checklist (or your own onboarding docs) to ContentBuilder and AI structures it into an interactive course — lessons, AI video, and quizzes — that new hires complete on any device, in 100+ languages, with completion tracked per person.

    Give every new hire the same great start.

    Grab the free onboarding checklist — then build it into a trackable course with AI.

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