Reboarding in practice: How to reboard your employees successfully

A few weeks ago, you hired Isabelle at your team and today is her first day at work. Moments before she arrives at the office, you check your onboarding calendar one last time to make sure you’ve covered everything.

The usual office tour? Check.

A quick presentation of the history and the mission of the company? Check.

Lunch break to introduce her to the team? Ch… Wait, what? Suddenly, you get a weird déjà vu.

All this seems too familiar. Oh yes! How could you have forgotten? Isabelle used to work here about a year ago on a fixed-term contract. And now she’s back for a full-time job.

So, what do you do? Do you pretend it has never happened before and give her the regular “first-day onboarding plan” or do you skip all that and ask her to roll her sleeves up as soon as she enters the office? How do you welcome a new employee, if they’re not exactly… “new”?