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Make new or remote employees feel welcome and excited while sharing important information about a new role through memorable onboarding videos. With 69% of new employees who experience smooth onboarding likely to hold their position for over 3 years, it’s essential to create engaging and accessible onboarding videos.
Using Clipchamp video editor, people and culture teams can make effective onboarding videos in minutes. Start with a ready-to-use video template, customize text to read your HR best practices, add subtitles for accessibility, then export your onboarding videos straight to platforms like YouTube.
Read on to learn how employee onboarding videos can benefit your company and explore the best video onboarding examples for new and remote employees.
The best remote work and onboarding video ideas
1. Sony
Sony’s onboarding video exemplifies their creative and innovative culture. The video uses dynamic visuals and engaging narration to introduce new employees to the company’s vision. You can create a similar onboarding video using the AI voiceover feature to add clear, engaging narration, and the video trimmer to ensure your content remains concise and focused. Don’t forget to add autocaptions to make your video accessible to all viewers.
2. Microsoft
Microsoft’s onboarding video showcases a hybrid work model, highlighting the head office, remote workers, employee testimonials, and real conversations. Record your voice using the voice recorder, then overlay your voiceover onto a smooth video. Use spin transitions like Microsoft does, add subtitles, and adjust the volume of your audio for the perfect sound.
3. Adobe
Adobe’s onboarding video example is welcoming and informative, focusing on their people and culture. The video uses vibrant animations and personal experiences from current employees to create a relatable and engaging storyline. Recreate this welcome video using the webcam recorder to record directly on your device. You can also enable the speaker coach to receive real-time feedback on your presentation. Overlay your brand logos, text animations, and stickers to add a personal touch.
4. Cisco
Cisco’s onboarding video highlights its structured and supportive onboarding process, essential for new hires and remote workers. The onboarding video uses clear explanations and demonstrations to help guide employees no matter where they are. Create a similar video onboarding process using the screen recorder, or record yourself presenting a PowerPoint. Try out the split screen effect to simultaneously show the speaker and the content, and generate subtitles to make your onboarding videos more accessible.
5. LEGO
Lego’s onboarding video is playful and engaging, reflecting their brand’s fun and creative spirit. The behind-the-scenes style video showcases employee testimonials sharing their experiences working for the company. This is a less traditional video to share to new employees, but is beneficial for creating excitement around the new role and for remote employees who haven’t met the team yet. Combine animated text, video overlays, and webcam video footage to create your own onboarding video.
6. Ford Motor Company
Ford’s onboarding video emphasizes the company's commitment to quality customer experience, sharing senior leadership interviews and real-life examples of their values. This interview style onboarding video can be made using webcam recording or voiceover audio narration, text overlays, and combining clips with scene transitions. You can also use the green screen effect to replace your background online.
7. Ahrefs
Ahrefs’ onboarding video shares a unique guide explaining tools and processes to new employees and remote workers. Use the screen recorder to demonstrate software use and add text and titles to highlight important instructions. Edit your video with brand logos, use filters to keep a brand aesthetic, and add an audio visualizer overlay to create a video podcast effect.
8. KFC
KFC’s onboarding video is straightforward and informative, focusing on the essential aspects of working for KFC. The footage includes real-life scenarios and practical tips for new hires. Use the screen recorder to share your screen while recording your voice, trimming clips together, and adding royalty-free background music found in the content library.
9. Salesforce
Salesforce’s onboarding video example highlights its flexible work environment and innovative culture. The footage includes employee testimonials and showcases their remote work model. Use AI voiceovers to create engaging narration and the screen recorder to help you demonstrate remote work applications. Enhance your video with color correction, video overlays, and accessibility stickers.
10. Burger King
Burger King’s onboarding video showcases a welcome orientation to new employees through a helpful slideshow presentation. All you have to do is record your slideshow video, add royalty-free background music, and make sure your video suits YouTube’s size requirements using the 16:9 aspect ratio preset.
How onboarding videos can help your business
Improve employee retention
Onboarding videos help new employees understand their roles and integrate seamlessly into the company culture, reducing turnover rates. A well-structured onboarding process is essential for retaining talent and ensuring long-term employee satisfaction.
Enhance remote work integration
For businesses embracing remote work, video onboarding provides a consistent and engaging way to welcome and train new hires. Onboarding videos ensure remote employees feel connected and part of the team, regardless of their location.
Consistent employee training
Onboarding videos deliver employee training in the most effective way possible while ensuring all new employees receive the same information and instructions. Onboarding video consistency is essential for maintaining high standards and reinforcing company policies or procedures.
Increase engagement
Videos are more engaging than traditional text-based materials, making capturing and holding new employees' attention easier. Engaged employees are more likely to absorb and retain information, leading to better performance and productivity.
Showcase company culture
Onboarding videos can showcase the people and culture within a company, helping new hires understand and align with core values and missions. Gaining this insight can motivate employees to contribute positively to the workplace environment.
Save time and resources
Video onboarding reduces the need for training sessions, online chats, and repetitive questions, saving time for HR teams and managers. New hires can refer back to videos as many times as they like.
Tips for creating engaging onboarding videos
Keep videos concise and engaging: ensure onboarding videos are easy to understand to maintain viewer attention and engagement. Use the video trimmer to cut out unnecessary video footage and keep your message impactful.
Include clear and relevant information: make sure to only share beneficial information so new employees can start new roles with confidence. Overlay text and titles to highlight key points and important instructions to your viewers.
Showcase your company culture: highlight your company’s people and culture to help new hires understand your values and workplace environment. Try out the brand kit to add your business logos, colors, and fonts to create consistent and professional videos.
Incorporate employee testimonials: include testimonials from current employees to add a personal touch and build trust with your new hires. Use the webcam to record these testimonials online and edit them seamlessly into your onboarding video.
Use subtitles to increase accessibility: add subtitles to videos to ensure accessibility to all employees, including those with hearing impairments or who prefer to watch videos without sound. Our subtitle generator automatically creates subtitles for you using smart AI technology.
Create effective onboarding videos that support HR best practices while helping remote workers and new employees integrate smoothly into your company. For more ways to integrate video into your business, check out explainer video examples and how to make training videos.
Inform new hires and remote employees with onboarding videos today using Clipchamp or download the Microsoft Clipchamp Windows app.
