{"id":17175,"date":"2019-03-13T05:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/?p=17175"},"modified":"2025-05-08T06:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T06:50:32","slug":"seasonal-employee-onboarding-much-easier-elearning-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proprofstraining.com\/blog\/seasonal-employee-onboarding-much-easier-elearning-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use eLearning for Employee Onboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Training your seasonal employees this year doesn\u2019t have to be so labor-intensive. With the summer fast approaching, camps are filling up, terraces will be buzzing, and hundreds of thousands of seasonal employees will be going back to work.<\/span><\/p>\n

This means that employers are staring down the hours and hours required to get these seasonal employees up to speed and ready for the influx of customers during the busy summer months.<\/p>\n

Training new employees can be a time-consuming process. Managers in retail typically report spending <\/span>6-10 hours training<\/span><\/a> new employees, including time spent developing training materials. What if there was a way to cut down both training time and training material development?<\/span><\/p>\n

Training new employees is much easier with automated eLearning tools<\/a>. There are many ways to implement a new employee training system. We believe the following five tips can help streamline training processes, save time, and reduce employee onboarding costs.<\/p>\n

<\/span>1. Guarantee Each New Employee Follows the Same Learning Track<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

If you train a lot of new employees every season, it can be difficult to know exactly what each learner is learning. You don\u2019t want employees to start their new jobs having undergone different training regimes. To make things worse, monitoring exactly what each individual trainer is teaching is nearly impossible.<\/p>\n

As business managers and owners, you need to centralize your learning programs or they will be disjointed, unclear, and confusing. A <\/span>centralized learning management system<\/span> allows you to develop specific courses for each department and control the learning track of every new employee. These powerful eLearning tools ensure that each new trainee is getting the specific training they need to be successful as they enter their role for the busy season ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>2. Monitor Retention with Quizzes, Automated Grading, and Instant Feedback<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Any teacher knows that once the exams come back, there is a lot of work to do. Grading tests, measuring results, and giving feedback are an extremely time-consuming process. The reality is that testing is a must-have for any training process. To build trust with new employees, it\u2019s necessary for them to demonstrate comprehension of key concepts before entering the workplace.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, eLearning tools are capable of making the grading process quicker and easier than ever before. Since they are hosted in the cloud, it is possible to <\/span>automate the process of quizzing, grading, and giving feedback<\/span> from anywhere that has an Internet connection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, there is nothing better than personal 1-on-1 feedback from the trainer to the student. But removing the process of grading multiple choice questions and inputting data to generate progress reports lets trainers focus on the important things such as mentoring, monitoring progress, giving personalized feedback, and teaching.<\/p>\n

<\/span>3. Simple Deployment of New Lesson Plans<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

If your business takes on a variety of employees with different roles every season, they each need a specialized learning track. Not to mention that your seasonal employee training courses most likely require changes from season to season.<\/p>\n

Updating learning courses and ensuring that each role is getting the right information can be tedious and difficult to manage. eLearning platforms <\/span>make this process much simpler<\/span> by ensuring that lesson plans are always up to date with current employee training needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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