MENTESSA FOR ONBOARDING
Onboard new talent
remotely
Remote onboarding doesn’t need to include isolation and disconnection from one’s colleagues. Mentessa helps create a social onboarding experience, especially for distributed teams. It welcomes new hires to the team, introduces them to the company culture, and helps them learn faster with a carefully crafted framework. Our unique approach combines the power of peer learning to build skills and peer bonds at the same time.
The approach
A social onboarding experience, built for distributed teams
- Implement a social onboarding experience - remotely
- Connect your new hires with experienced mentors
- Give people personalized guidance
The employee onboarding process with Mentessa is a carefully crafted framework designed to make the most out of technology while creating a human-centered experience. Our platform allows you to manage the new hire onboarding process – efficiently and effectively, while staying flexible in an ever-changing world. Virtual onboarding with Mentessa gives new hires and experienced professionals the gift of mentoring, creating connection, and makes people feel like they belong. It’s a simple solution to ensure everyone is connected to your culture and their roles – even in a distributed workplace.
In Action
How it works for you and your organization
Mentessa gives new hires an onboarding buddy, a dedicated onboarding diary, workplace rituals, and gamification — so they’re up to speed fast, even in a distributed team.
Step 1
Set up introductions
Welcome new hires with targeted introductions to team members, and match them with onboarding buddies, mentors, or culture ambassadors through an automated process.
- Set frequency
- View type of contacts
- Set duration of match
Mentessa scales to 100% of our employees, makes them happy every day, with no additional effort on our side.
Step 2
Match with an onboarding mentor
Match new hires with their onboarding mentor and quickly establish a line of connection to help set transparent goals and expectations, provide timely feedback, and most importantly, create a human connection for your remote team members.
- Transparent goals
- Timely feedback
- Human connection
Step 3
Empower your employees from day 1
Empower your employees from their first day by providing them easy access to the entire community for help on anything they need, and enable them to get to know other new hires at the same time. And rather than tell your employees what the culture is about, let them learn and experience it through peer connections.
- Access entire community for help
- Get to know other new hires
- Learn about the culture from peers
Why Mentessa
Why teams choose Mentessa for onboarding
Onboard faster and better with human mentors
Scale without the admin work. Onboarding buddies connect new hires with colleagues best suited to advise or mentor them, so everyone gets the same level of orientation without extra effort from HR.
Built to fit your talent stack
No content required and no moderation needed. Organizations onboard remote employees 4x faster and increase engagement by up to 90%.
- GDPR-compliant
- For growing & established organizations
- Launch in days
Onboarding case study
How OTP Bank improved employee experience and connection with social onboarding
“Mentessa scales to 100% of our employees, makes them happy every day, with no additional effort on our side.”
FAQ
Questions?
What is social onboarding and how is it different from a standard onboarding checklist?
A standard checklist gets someone through paperwork and system access. Social onboarding connects new hires to actual people — an onboarding buddy, mentors, and culture ambassadors — through automated matching, a dedicated onboarding diary, workplace rituals, and gamification, so new hires build peer bonds and skills at the same time instead of just ticking boxes.
What's the best software for onboarding remote or distributed employees?
Look for one built around connection, not just process tracking, since distributed teams lose the hallway conversations that used to onboard people informally. Mentessa matches new hires with onboarding buddies and mentors automatically, and organizations using it onboard remote employees 4x faster with engagement up by as much as 90%.
How does an onboarding buddy program actually work?
New hires are automatically matched with onboarding buddies, mentors, or culture ambassadors — you set the frequency, contact type, and match duration. The buddy gives new hires someone to ask questions to and learn the culture from directly, rather than a handbook or a generic FAQ.
How much faster is onboarding with a dedicated platform versus a manual process?
Organizations using Mentessa onboard remote employees 4x faster and increase engagement by up to 90%. In OTP Bank's case, 58% of new hires exceeded their engagement target, managers and mentors saw 50% productivity gains, and on-time goal completion doubled.
Does an onboarding platform replace HR, or work alongside them?
It works alongside HR, not instead of it. Onboarding buddies connect new hires with the colleagues best suited to advise or mentor them, so everyone gets the same level of orientation without HR having to manually coordinate every introduction — no content library or moderation required.
How quickly can an organization launch a new onboarding program?
Most organizations can launch in days. The platform is GDPR-compliant and built for both growing and established organizations, so there's no lengthy content build-out before new hires can start connecting with buddies and mentors.
Next Step
Your new hires are already trying
to find their people.
Thirty minutes with someone from our team. A look at your specific onboarding goals, how social onboarding would fit your organization, and what a pilot realistically costs.
Prefer to look around first? Start the tour (2 min)- GDPR-compliant
- EU hosting
- German & English-speaking team
- Works council documentation available
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