--- title: "Employee onboarding survey software | Sparkbay" description: "Hear from new hires in their first three months without an extra survey: Sparkbay adds the onboarding questions, once, to a survey they already receive." url: "https://sparkbay.com/en/onboarding-survey-software" language: "en" --- Onboarding # Know how your new hires are settling in ## Sparkbay asks new hires the onboarding questions once, inside a survey they already receive in their first 3 months. You see how their start is going while there is still time to act. [Schedule a demo](https://sparkbay.com/en/request-demo) ![Engagement by tenure](https://sparkbay.com/content/images/feature-lifecycle-overview.png) Organizations that survey their teams with Sparkbay The first months ## Too often, you learn how a start went when the new hire resigns A new hire who feels lost seldom tells their manager, and in an overall score their answers disappear among everyone else's. How it works ## Onboarding feedback without a separate survey ### Nothing to schedule or target: the questions find new hires on their own. Onboarding questions ### Hear from new hires without an extra survey During their first 3 months, new hires find the onboarding questions at the start of a survey they were getting anyway. Answered or skipped, the questions do not come back. Onboarding questions appear on this same screen. ![A Sparkbay survey question as employees see it, with a five-point answer scale](https://sparkbay.com/content/images/feature-survey-bg.png) Lifecycle ### See what to fix before habits set The Onboarding stage of the lifecycle report gathers the answers people gave during their first 3 months: their strengths, the drivers that need work and up to three improvement opportunities. Read it for one department or location to see where new hires settle in best. [See the employee lifecycle report](https://sparkbay.com/en/employee-lifecycle-survey) ![Drivers of engagement](https://sparkbay.com/content/images/feature-lifecycle-drivers.png) Turnover risk ### Connect onboarding to retention Add the onboarding and integration driver, and the heatmap compares it by tenure, beside each group's turnover risk. In this example, people in their first two years rate onboarding well, but their turnover risk reads Very high. ![Heatmap by tenure, with the turnover risk of each group](https://sparkbay.com/content/images/feature-heatmap-tenure.png) Before and after ## No onboarding survey to schedule ### Onboarding feedback with a separate survey, and with Sparkbay. ### A separate onboarding survey - One more survey to schedule for every new hire - One more email in a busy first month - Results kept apart from the rest of your survey ### Onboarding questions in Sparkbay - Nothing to schedule: the questions find new hires - Asked once, inside a survey they already receive - Read beside every other stage of the lifecycle [Schedule a demo](https://sparkbay.com/en/request-demo) Good to know ## Ready from your first survey ### On by default The onboarding questions are on unless your organization turns them off. ### Your own questions Add your own questions to the onboarding set and new hires answer them too. ### Hire dates from your HR system Sparkbay knows who is new from the hire dates in your HRIS integration or employee import. Before Sparkbay, we were convinced that our onboarding program needed a lot of improvement. We were going to put effort into redesigning the onboarding program because management believed it was an issue. With the data on the platform, we realized that it was actually a strength. ![Dominic Proulx](https://sparkbay.com/content/images/logos/dominic-proulx.jpg) Dominic Proulx Vice President, Human Resources ![Cogir](https://sparkbay.com/content/images/logos/cogir-logo.svg) [Read the case study](https://sparkbay.com/en/culture-blog/case-study-cogir-1013) ## Frequently asked questions ### What is an onboarding survey? An onboarding survey collects feedback from new employees during their first weeks and months to measure and improve the new-hire experience. ### When should onboarding surveys be sent? Early, while the experience is fresh. When someone in their first 3 months receives one of your surveys, Sparkbay adds the onboarding questions at the start of it. Once they answer or skip them, the questions do not come back. ### Which questions do new hires answer? The questions of the onboarding and integration driver, as your organization sets them: those Sparkbay provides and any you add. ### How does Sparkbay improve new-hire retention? By surfacing onboarding issues early, so you can act before new hires disengage. Your HR team reads the results in the lifecycle report, where the onboarding stage sits beside later stages and the people who left. ### Who sees the onboarding results? Your HR administrators, and power users with organization-wide access unless you say otherwise. A group with fewer respondents than your anonymity minimum, 5 by default, shows no number. ### Is Sparkbay compliant with employee data privacy laws? Yes. Sparkbay complies with Quebec's Law 25.Yes. Sparkbay complies with PIPEDA, Canada's federal privacy law.Yes. Sparkbay complies with the GDPR.Yes. Sparkbay helps you meet the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and never sells your employees' personal information.Yes. Sparkbay complies with the GDPR and processes your employees' data under a data processing agreement. Sparkbay also complies with the GDPR. Employee personal data is pseudonymized, encrypted in transit and at rest, and access is role-based. [Learn more about our security](https://sparkbay.com/en/security) Results appear only for groups of 5 respondents or more, and your organization can set a higher minimum. ISO 27001 certified. [Security and privacy](https://sparkbay.com/en/security) #### How are your newest people settling in? [Schedule a demo](https://sparkbay.com/en/request-demo)