This research will look at the best practices in employee onboarding that are adopted by the leading

companies in the world. It will then look to compare these best practices with those practices
employed in Financial Services Industry in Ireland today. It will also look into the various tools
that make up best practice. The aim of which is to engage the employee quicker and make the
employee productive earlier. The feeling of belonging to the organizational citizenship of the
company at an early stage, leads employees to attaining this engagement and productivity.
This process is designed to reduce the need to re-hire and therefore reduce the costs of the
company, while at the same time increasing the employee’s satisfaction with their work life
balance. The employee forms a bond of loyalty with the company and thus will engage more
effectively and efficiently resulting in a more productive employee.