Getting new employees on board and keeping them engaged is vital for any company, especially in early-career hiring. These new people joining your company could be the future of your business. How you welcome and support them can make the difference between them leaving or becoming a vital team member. But how do you choose the right platform to handle this critical task?

This article compares Abode with Workday, a popular human capital management (HCM) platform. We'll explore how each platform addresses the unique challenges of engaging and managing early-career hires.

From onboarding to ongoing engagement strategies, we'll explore Abode's unique capabilities and why they might suit your company's needs.

Abode Focuses on Early-Career Talent Management

At Abode, we understand the vital importance of early-career hiring. It's fundamental to growing human potential, engaging new hires, and laying a solid foundation for the future. Unlike Workday HCM, which covers various HR tasks, Abode focuses specifically on early-career hires.

Abode simplifies the hiring journey from offer acceptance to the first day on the job. It makes new hires feel welcome and ready with tasks, resources, community connections, and events. Plus, it builds a sense of community through networking and social interaction.

Consider some of Abode's features:

1. Smooth Onboarding

Getting new hires up to speed doesn't have to be a hassle. With Abode, early-career professionals get a proper introduction, ensuring a smooth start. The platform takes care of the basics so hiring teams can focus on making new team members feel supported and ready to make a strong start. Everything is centralized and automated to prevent slip-ups and save time.

2. Continuous Engagement

Early-career professionals thrive on consistent support. That's why Abode offers tools for regular check-ins, mentorship, and feedback. The platform keeps young talent engaged and growing by connecting them with mentors who guide them and help them develop their skills.

3. Data-Driven Insights

Clear insights to track engagement are essential for any talent acquisition team. This allows them to spot issues early, make informed decisions, and keep early-career hires engaged. Abode reveals how involved new hires are so teams can address problems early on.

4. Support for High-Volume Hiring

Abode is designed to manage high volumes of new hires while ensuring each gets a personalized and engaging experience. No matter how many new people you bring, we ensure everyone feels appreciated and ready to excel from day one.

The Limitations of Generalized HCM Solutions

When engaging Gen Z and early-career talent, general HCM systems often fail to deliver for the following reasons:

Broad Focus

Workday HCM covers various HR functions but lacks a particular focus on early-career hiring and engagement. This can lead to generic solutions that don't address the specific needs of onboarding and retaining young talent.

Complexity and Scalability

Workday HCM handles broad HR needs but can be overly complex for early-career recruitment. However, Abode provides a straightforward, specialized solution that's easier to use and manage.

Why Abode is Superior to Workday for Early-Career Hiring

When bringing on new, early-career talent, Abode stands out.

1. Efficiency and Automation

Abode automates many tasks after making an offer, reducing mistakes and saving time. This lets early-career teams focus on more critical tasks. Conversely, Workday has a broader range of features but can be overwhelming for these specific tasks.

Abode's focus on creating a seamless, engaging experience for early-career talent means that the platform is tailored to their unique needs, often overlooked by a generic human resources information system (HRIS) like Workday.

2. Smooth Experience

Abode ensures that every new hire has a smooth and engaging start. The system helps new employees settle in quickly and work effectively from their first day. Unlike Workday, which requires employees to be coded into the system just a few weeks before their start date, Abode engages early-career hires right from the offer stage, which could be 9-12 months before their start date.

This extended engagement ensures new hires feel connected and informed long before they officially join.

3. Keeping Talent Around

Abode mitigates the risk of new employees leaving by spotting potential risks before they become significant issues. The platform offers ongoing support to keep your team motivated and happy. Workday's general approach might not be able to identify these issues early enough.

Abode's value lies in creating an engaging experience for early-career talent, moving them out of their email inbox and into a social platform they want to use daily. As a result, they get transparent communication, clear expectations and to-dos, events, mentorship, and peer connections.

4. Custom Onboarding

With Abode, you can create personalized onboarding experiences, including special content and welcome messages. This makes new hires feel valued from day one. Workday's approach is more standardized and might not provide the same level of personalization.

Providing a great experience from the offer stage to the first day and beyond ensures that early-career hires feel valued and supported. This helps convert them into engaged full-time employees. This cost-effective approach builds loyalty, enhances the employer brand, and encourages referrals.

5. Building Strong Teams

Abode's focus on early-career professionals helps build a strong team foundation. We encourage teamwork and knowledge sharing so new hires can thrive and help your business succeed. Generic HCM platforms rarely emphasize this.

The goal of early-career programs is to build a strong talent pipeline. Abode makes this seamless, ensuring that every interaction is geared towards building commitment and loyalty.

6. Keep-Warm Strategy

Abode's keep-warm strategy engages candidates throughout the hiring process, reducing the chance of them backing out. Generic solutions might not handle this as well.

In short, Abode's specialized features make it a better choice for managing early-career hires than Workday's broader, more general approach. For smooth onboarding and ongoing support for new talent, Abode delivers unique and powerful features.

Success Stories

More importantly, these features translate into tangible benefits for early-career professionals who have used Abode to transform their processes and deliver delightful hiring experiences.

Rubén Colón Velázquez, Early-Career Program Lead at Mondelez International, highlights, ”Abode is extremely user-friendly for both the candidates and recruitment teams. It allows you to build personalized journeys for candidates, successfully reducing busy work. The implementation was seamless, and our candidates have loved having a one-stop shop to review resources and complete tasks."

Norman B. Jones, Director of Global University Recruitment, also shares how Abode has become an invaluable tool at Danaher. He notes, ”Abode provides us with an automated solution that not only facilitates communication but also allows us to track engagement. It has become an indispensable tool for maintaining a connection with our incoming hires and participants in our early identification program.”

These real-world experiences highlight how Abode simplifies early-career hiring and onboarding, making it easier for companies to engage and support new talent effectively.

‍Conclusion

With a clearly defined focus on early-career hiring, Abode offers solutions to support and engage young professionals. While Workday HCM handles a broad range of HR tasks, Abode focuses specifically on helping new hires make a strong start and stay engaged.

Gen Z, who make up a large portion of the modern workforce, has unique expectations and needs in the workplace. Abode understands this and provides tools to help you connect with and support these new team members, ensuring they feel welcomed and engaged from day one.

The question isn't Abode vs. Workday but whether a company wants to maximize the ROI of its early-career programs. If so, the answer is Abode.