Employee Onboarding Video: Turn Your New-Hire Guide into a Video
Give every new starter the same first-week walkthrough, made from the guide your team already wrote.
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About this use case
An onboarding video covers what a new hire needs in their first days: how work is handed out, who to ask and what good looks like. Upload the guide or handbook you already use, say who it's for, and VibeKnow writes the narration and builds the scenes. Review it, change anything that's off, and share it before day one.
Best for
- HR and People teams
- Team leads
- Customer support
- Retail and frontline
- Fast-growing startups
What's in “Your First Week: Tools, People and Habits”
- Day one: sign in, turn on two-factor sign-in and keep passwords in the company password manager.
- Three relationships for the week: a weekly one-to-one with your manager, an onboarding buddy and the team channel.
- How the team talks: chat inside, email outside, meetings with an agenda, and a reply within one working day.
- Before a first task, check who it is for, when it is due and what done looks like.
- Three habits: write things down, ask early, close the loop.
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The first week, from the new hire's side
Day one is a blur of logins, names and links. Someone sends the onboarding guide, and it sits in a tab next to twelve others. By Wednesday the new starter has questions they feel awkward asking twice: where the expense form lives, who signs off on leave, how the team prefers to be contacted.
A short onboarding video doesn't replace the people who welcome them. It gives everyone the same calm walkthrough, so the questions that reach the team are the ones that really need a person.
How to make an onboarding video
01Upload your guide
Drop in the onboarding guide, handbook or deck: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, TXT or Markdown.
02Choose the look
Pick Hand-drawn to have each scene drawn stroke by stroke, or Slide Video for a page-by-page walkthrough.
03Review and share
Check the narration and scenes, fix anything, then download the MP4 for your LMS or welcome email.
Start from what you have: PPT to video · Document to video · Hand-drawn video
Ways teams use onboarding videos
Before day one
Send it with the welcome email so the first morning starts with fewer surprises.
One per team
Make a short version for each department on top of a company-wide video.
Tools and accounts
Walk through what to set up first and why, in the order people actually need it.
Policies people skim
Turn leave, expenses and security rules into a few minutes worth watching.
Manager refreshers
Give new managers the same walkthrough their team gets, plus what they should check in week one.
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FAQ
Questions about onboarding videos.
How long should an onboarding video be?
Short enough to watch in one sitting. Tell VibeKnow the length you want in the prompt, such as “under 3 minutes”, and split long guides into several videos.
Can I make one for each team?
Yes. Upload each team's guide separately, or add a line about the audience in the prompt.
Will it follow my guide word for word?
No, VibeKnow writes its own narration from the guide, so review it before sharing. For exact wording, use Script to video.
Can new hires watch it before day one?
Yes. It's an MP4, so you can link it in the welcome email or put it on the intranet before they start.
Upload your onboarding guide
Watch the first version in minutes, then edit it before your next new hire starts.