Orientation Training
Integrating a new hire into a company can be expensive. REALLY expensive, especially if your recruiter found someone out-of-state. So many companies will pay to:
- transport that new driver to a training facility
- bring in a trainer and pay the driver to be trained
- feed and host the new driver
- send the driver home
In-Person Training is Awfully Expensive
You’re looking at investing a few thousand dollars before that driver has contributed one cent to the company. Yet new driver orientation is critically important: it saves money in the long run to have a new driver understand:
- Company policies and procedures
- Company culture
- Operational standards
- Health and other employee benefits.
A Smarter Way to Do Orientation Training: Online
By utilizing a computer based orientation approach, the cost to introduce the driver to the company can be greatly reduced. How? Consider this scenario:
- The new driver gets their new-hire packet via FedEx, then finds a computer to log in and take the new-hire orientation training.
- They spend anywhere from an hour to two days learning about safety, company policies, and procedures. Along the way, they’re tested about what they’re learning.
- The driver fills out their forms online, and is instantly enrolled in whatever programs are needed.
- The driver is paid for their time — the easiest two days of pay they ever earned.
- They hit the road, and can visit a distribution center, training facility or headquarters on their first run — so they’re contributing to the company quickly and with less investment.
How Much Does Online New Hire Training Save You?
Think about how much you save if you didn’t have to bring a new hire all the way in.
- Flight: $600
- Hotel: $300
- Ground Transportation: $100
- Per Diem: $200
- Trainer costs: $500
- Driver pay: $250
“Isn’t Custom Training Expensive?”
No, and especially not compared to the table above. You might even consider doing custom training whenever you’re want to do training for new equipment or new procedures into your fleet. Instructional Technologies will work with you to make great training that reflects your Company’s policies, procedures and values.
“Why Online Orientation Training?”
Only Pro-TREAD is “Mastery Based.” Mastery based training means the driver must correctly answer a question before going on to the next section. Get it wrong and they must watch the lesson again. This guarantees your company has a driver who KNOWS the right thing to do. By providing a multitude of graphics and animations options, by integrating your own video or presentation content, by branding your company within the lesson itself, your company feels professional and efficient to new hires, which sets expectations for their behavior.
“Can We Use or Modify Our Existing Library of Safety Training?”
Yes! And we can modify any of our existing 70+ driver safety and OSHA lessons to address your internal practices, or provide access to the whole library as-is. Or, we can build a lesson for you from the ground up! Plus we provide records that all of your new hires have taken the orientation required. It’s fast, inexpensive, and easy-to-update.