People & retention

From hire to growth: use hiring evidence in year one

Carry what you learned while hiring into onboarding, skills check-ins, pulse surveys and succession plans, then check whether your hiring process predicts good hires.

7 min read · Updated · For hr leads, owners and managers responsible for new hires after day one

The short version

You learned a lot about each hire before day one. Start their growth plan from that evidence, check in on a rhythm, and feed what you learn back into hiring.

The handoff that loses everything

Hiring teams learn a lot about a person: how they answered scenario questions, where they scored strongest and what the panel worried about. On day one, most of that disappears into a folder nobody opens again.

Keeping it attached to the person gives managers a head start on coaching and gives you a way to check whether your hiring process works.

Days 0 to 30: onboarding that runs itself

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    A plan matched to the role

    Build plans once, and the right one starts for each hire.

    In Offers & onboarding
  2. 2

    Tasks and emails on a schedule

    Welcome emails, first-day details and reminders, timed to the start date.

    In Offers & onboarding
  3. 3

    One onboarding card for your team

    Confirm or waive tasks and set the start date from the candidate profile.

    In Offers & onboarding
  4. 4

    Onboarding analytics

    See how plans are progressing across your new hires.

    In Offers & onboarding

Day one: start from the hiring evidence

Grow is an add-on that picks up where hiring leaves off.

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    Everyone on one roster

    Add people one at a time, import a CSV, or sync them from your hires.

    In Grow
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    Hire evidence carried over

    Journey, assessment and scorecard results become skill evidence on the employee record.

    In Grow
  3. 3

    Role profiles

    AI drafts the skills and levels for a role, and an admin edits and approves them.

    In Grow
  4. 4

    Skill gaps

    Click a skill to see who has the gap. Managers see their own team.

    In Grow

Every quarter: check-ins and pulses

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    Self-rating plus manager check

    Each employee rates their own skills and their manager confirms. Disagreements are called out so you can talk about them.

    In Grow
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    Recurring pulses

    Short surveys from templates, once or on a schedule. Results only show for groups of five or more, so people can answer honestly.

    In Grow
  3. 3

    Capacity heatmap

    Workload and blockers by department or manager, so you can see who is stretched.

    In Grow

A simple year-one rhythm

  • Day one: the profile starts from hiring evidence.
  • Day 30: the first skills check-in.
  • Every quarter: a check-in and a short pulse.
  • Around day 90: ask the hiring manager to rate the hire.

Plan who is next

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    Succession plans

    Mark critical roles, add successors with how ready they are, and see how deep your bench is.

    In Grow

Close the loop with hiring

If people who scored well on the journey are rated well at 90 days, the journey is working. If not, revisit the questions and scoring criteria for that role, and check whether the knockouts screen out the right things.

Questions, answered

Is Grow included with InsightHire?

Grow is an add-on. Onboarding is part of the core product; Grow adds skills, check-ins, pulses and succession plans.

Are pulse answers shown by person?

No. Pulse results only show for groups of five or more, so individual answers are not singled out.

Can we use Grow for people we hired before InsightHire?

Yes. Add people one at a time or import a CSV. Hiring evidence carries over for people hired through InsightHire.

Put this playbook to work.

Bring one real role and we'll set it up with you in InsightHire.