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Onboarding & lifecycle · October People

A first day
worth looking forward to.

Turn the offer into a welcome plan. Coordinate documents, equipment, introductions and check-ins, with clear tasks and owners before a new starter walks through the door.

Follow Naledi from signed offer to settled in.
A new chapter at Northstar

Welcome aboard, Naledi.

Product Designer · Your first month, mapped out.

3 days to go
Try completing a task. Everyone has a part to play.

Interactive example · Illustrative people and data

How it works

Meet Naledi.
Here’s her first 90 days.

From a signed offer to a confident first review, October keeps every task, owner and conversation moving.

14 days before

Naledi says yes.

Moving her to Pre-Onboarding in the pipeline sends a branded form to her personal email. Address, emergency contact and ID, with no login and no licence until she starts.

Welcome to Northstar, NalediPre-onboarding · secure link
  • Home address
  • Emergency contact
  • ID document
  • Bank and tax detailsWhen hired
Phase 1 submittedReminders on days 3, 7 and 14
Inside onboarding & lifecycle

Made for the work
behind the moment.

Explore the workflows, tools and practical details that support onboarding throughout the working day.

01 / Structured onboarding

Support from day one.

Automated workflows guide new hires through every step: pre-boarding forms, contracts to sign, equipment, introductions and check-ins. Managers see each new starter's task progress on their dashboard, and HR sees every onboarding in flight.

  • Templates with owners and dependencies
  • Pre-boarding forms and contract e-signature
  • Welcome meetings, buddies and introductions
  • Progress tracked per new hire
02 / Internal mobility

Grow from within.

An internal opportunity board, career profiles and skill matching make it easy to promote from within before looking outside. Managers see who on their team is exploring a move and can support the conversation.

  • Internal opportunity board
  • Career profiles and skill matching
  • My applications and team mobility
  • Mobility analytics
03 / Offboarding & alumni

Every exit done right.

Exit plans cover asset recovery, IT access tasks, final pay, knowledge handover and exit interviews. Alumni management maintains the relationship afterwards, tracks career moves and enables boomerang hiring.

  • Asset recovery and IT access tasks
  • Final pay and leave settlement
  • Exit interviews and themes
  • Alumni network and rehire
Intelligence inside the workflow

Task nudges

Reminders before a task is due, on the day and when overdue, escalating to the owner's manager after three days.

Skill matching

Internal candidates matched to opportunities by skills, interests and goals.

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The full picture

There’s more
inside.

Explore the detail behind onboarding.

Lifecycle+
  • Onboarding
  • Offboarding
  • Alumni
Internal mobility+
  • Opportunities
  • My applications
  • Career profile
  • Team mobility
  • Post opportunity
  • Mobility analytics
Listening+
  • Exit interviews and questionnaires
  • Exit themes and risk flags
  • Onboarding and exit survey templates
Keep the story moving
Next, explore offboarding

A considered goodbye.
Nothing left to memory.

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Questions,
answered.

Can onboarding plans differ by role or location?

Yes. Build templates for each role, department or country and choose one when you start an onboarding. Tasks can belong to the new starter, their manager, a department such as IT, or a named colleague.

Does offboarding handle system access?

Offboarding plans include IT tasks for access revocation and asset recovery. Assigned assets are flagged automatically, and admins are alerted on the last working day if anything is still open.

Start with your organisation

See Onboarding in your working day.

We’ll walk through the real product with your team and show how it connects to the rest of October People.