Your Placement Onboarding Agent Carries the Offer Through to Day One
What it takes off your plate
The AgentWorks Placement Onboarding Agent takes the work between offer acceptance and day one off your recruiter, the person who should be calling the new hire and the client hiring manager, not chasing signatures and laptop orders. Here is how that stretch goes at many agencies. The offer is accepted and everyone moves on to the next req. The candidate gets cold feet because nobody from your office calls. Paperwork is still incomplete on day one. The client's HR team drops the ball on equipment and system access, and the new hire spends their first morning in a lobby.
That gap is where placements fall apart. A counteroffer from the current employer lands in a silent week. A start date slips because a background check was never ordered. And the client remembers the rough first day, not the good search.
What the Placement Onboarding Agent does, step by step
Onboarding is a run of messages to the candidate and the client, so the Placement Onboarding Agent starts with the messages.
- It sends the offer for signature. As soon as the offer is agreed, it sends the offer letter to the candidate for electronic signature, and follows up by text and email until it comes back signed.
- It starts the background check. Once the candidate has signed and authorized it, it initiates the background check with the provider your desk already uses and tells the candidate what to expect and when.
- It collects the paperwork. It sends the candidate the new-hire forms the placement requires, such as the W-4 and any client-specific documents, and chases what is missing before the start date rather than on it.
- It coordinates first-day logistics with the client. It confirms with the client's HR contact and hiring manager the start time, where to report, who will meet the new hire, and that equipment and system access are ordered, and follows up on anything not confirmed.
- It sends the candidate the details. The new hire gets one clear message with the address, time, parking, dress code and the name of the person meeting them.
- It sends a warm welcome. Before the start date, the candidate hears from your desk again with a welcome and a reminder that their recruiter is a call away.
- It tells the recruiter what is at risk. If the candidate goes quiet, the check stalls or the client has not confirmed access, the recruiter hears about it the same day.
Where the work is recorded
Every message, signature and confirmation is saved on the candidate's record and the client company's record in the CRM your desk already uses. In Bullhorn or whatever ATS holds your placements, the placement record shows the signed offer, the background check status, the documents received and the confirmed start details.
The next morning, the recruiter opens their placements and sees which offers are signed, which checks are complete, which documents are still out, and which clients have confirmed equipment and access for next week's starts. If a colleague covers, they pick up exactly where the Placement Onboarding Agent left off, without calling the candidate to ask what has already been sent.
What your people do instead
Your recruiters spend the time on the calls that keep a placement placed. They phone the new hire in the quiet week to ask how the resignation went and whether the current employer made a counteroffer. They talk through any nerves about the move honestly. They call the hiring manager to share what the new hire is excited about and what will help them settle in. On day one, they check in with both sides, and a week later they call again.
Candidates remember the recruiter who stayed with them after the offer. Clients remember the new hire who arrived with a badge and a laptop waiting. The Placement Onboarding Agent keeps the signatures, checks and logistics moving, and the recruiter keeps the relationships.
A placement that reaches day one started with interviews that moved quickly. Read how agencies schedule candidates faster for placements and how desks schedule candidate interviews for client companies.
One next step
Placement onboarding may be the right first workflow to hand to an agent, or screening, interview coordination or client development may be costing your desk more time with candidates. The free Recruiting Industry Assessment shows which workflow an AgentWorks agent should take first. To see every agent built for staffing agencies and recruiting firms, visit the recruiting industry page.
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