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SilkRoad Onboarding

Overview

What is SilkRoad Onboarding?

SilkRoad Onboarding is a component of the SilkRoad Life Suite platform. It includes functionality for onboarding, including electronic offer support, retention during Mergers & Acquisitions, and offboarding personnel. It is optimized for enterprise organizations.

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RedCarpet has been utilized by several organizations, including Polk State, VendorPass, LPR, and American Dental Partners, to streamline …
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Onboarding Made Easy

9 out of 10
March 17, 2017
Incentivized
RedCarpet is used across our organization - in the stores across Canada, home office, and distribution centres. We leverage the system to …
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What is SilkRoad Onboarding?

SilkRoad Onboarding is a component of the SilkRoad Life Suite platform. It includes functionality for onboarding, including electronic offer support, retention during Mergers & Acquisitions, and offboarding personnel. It is optimized for enterprise organizations.

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Product Details

What is SilkRoad Onboarding?

SilkRoad Onboarding is a component of the SilkRoad Life Suite platform designed for enterprise-level organizations. Onboarding features 3 core component areas-

  • Offers- these features automate the offer workflow for streamlining the signing process. It also digitizes the signing process, and intends to be integratable with third-party applicant tracking systems and onboarding solutions.

  • Mergers & Acquisitions- Onboarding emphasizes capabilities to manage mergers and acquisitions process. In particular, SilkRoad advertising retention during transition and maintaining compliance paperwork.

  • Offboarding- SilkRoad Onboarding also includes functionality to offboard personnel, including automating paperwork and the broader offboarding workflow. The module is intended to help maintain morale while retaining assets and limiting liability. The module also triggers succession plans to replace offboarding personnel.

SilkRoad Onboarding Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

SilkRoad Onboarding is a component of the SilkRoad Life Suite platform. It includes functionality for onboarding, including electronic offer support, retention during Mergers & Acquisitions, and offboarding personnel. It is optimized for enterprise organizations.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.1.

The most common users of SilkRoad Onboarding are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

RedCarpet has been utilized by several organizations, including Polk State, VendorPass, LPR, and American Dental Partners, to streamline their employee onboarding processes and enhance efficiency while ensuring consistency. SilkRoad Onboarding, also known as RedCarpet, simplifies the onboarding experience for new hires by eliminating the need for paper forms and enabling the tracking and reviewing of completed forms. This not only saves time but also allows for a more organized and seamless onboarding process.

Moreover, RedCarpet serves as a helpful reminder system for new employees, assisting them in preparing for their first day by completing necessary paperwork in advance. By automating pre-boarding and onboarding procedures and eliminating the reliance on manual paper-based forms, RedCarpet empowers organizations to effectively manage their payroll processing ahead of time.

In addition to its benefits for new employees, RedCarpet plays a vital role in supporting managers and HR teams. By automating tasks, it enhances their efficiency and ensures compliance with established procedures. Its versatility is evident as it is used across various organizational settings such as stores, home offices, and distribution centers in Canada.

Overall, RedCarpet streamlines processes, reduces manual workloads, promotes compliance, and ultimately contributes to a positive onboarding experience for both employees and employers alike.

Customized welcome portal and task management system: Some users have praised Red Carpet for providing a customized welcome portal and task management system. This feature allows for a personalized experience for each employee based on their location, role, and department.

Improved onboarding process: According to reviewers, the development process of Red Carpet has led to a reevaluation of their organization's onboarding process. This has resulted in the creation of electronic forms and an overall improved onboarding experience.

Efficient workflow monitoring: Many users have found value in Red Carpet's ability to effectively monitor the workflow. The visible tasks and colors on the back end allow HR administrators and managers to easily track the progress of each employee's new hire process, as well as identify any delays caused by individuals or teams.

Cumbersome eForm Creation Process: Several users have reported that the process of creating and making changes to eForms is complicated and time-consuming. They mentioned that it requires completion of a detailed spreadsheet, which they find cumbersome. Some users suggested that an ideal solution would be to create the form in Word and forward it to the team for creation or change.

Confusing Task Workflow and Hierarchy Tree: Many users found the task workflow and dependency/hierarchy tree in RedCarpet confusing and visually unappealing. This caused them to spend more time during the development phase trying to understand and navigate through these features.

Unfriendly Notifications and Features: Users expressed dissatisfaction with the user-friendliness of notifications, document library, and other features in RedCarpet. They mentioned that it was hard to remember how to access the correct notification or form/document and then edit or create it. Additionally, some users found adding a task tricky as it was difficult to locate the proper task in the list, suggesting that it needs improvement in terms of user-friendliness.

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February 22, 2020

SilkRoad Red Carpet

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If using an existing third-party ERP System, don't expect the information inbound from SilkRoad to integrate without many hours of work and research. There are some systems it will work with out of the box, but others will require a third-party consultant. Also, reporting requirements will not be met unless requests are sent directly to the software company.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SilkRoad Onboarding (RedCarpet) is excellent for new hires! A well-defined plan is needed to execute the onboarding experience, but these can be customized to be as extensive or as simplified as desired. There is a learning curve to learning to administer the software. Task management for departmental teams is relatively easy.
March 17, 2017

Onboarding Made Easy

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well suited to larger; more complex organizations that require multiple workflows or have multiple brands. This system would be overkill to a small business that really doesn't have a large volume of hiring or a complex hiring process.
September 27, 2016

Onboarding in the USA!

Dana Hohn, SPHR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RedCarpet is great for keeping onboarding organized and your work flow the way you need it to be so all internal paperwork requirements are done to your satisfaction. The biggest flaw and it's not really a RedCarpet flaw, is that some people are just not computer literate and we spend time walking them through completing their onboarding. This may be more common in our industry but it is the biggest challenge we have with using RedCarpet.
September 06, 2016

Great tool for automating!

Luke Hedden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RedCarpet is great for automating onboarding tasks and ensuring that all of your new hires have a consistent experience. If you manage lots of moving parts in your onboarding (assigning a phone, computer, key card, collecting I-9s, W4s, direct deposit forms, etc...), RedCarpet may be a great tool to help you get organized.
Kristen Sykes, PHR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As of mid year 2016, RedCarpet (now called Onboarding) has a new "look" which is wonderful and more user-friendly! We are not live on this yet, but hope to begin using it very soon. Clients are migrating over in the near future. Basic eForms are now able to be created with eSignatures by administrators; however, anything requiring routing or coding will still need to be done by their engineering team.

This product is ideal where customization based on type of employee, department, location, etc. is key. There is a high level of customization available in this product and is very good for larger organizations that need that level of detailed service and configuration. There is some significant up-front implementation costs, along with the annual maintenance fee, so it may not be suitable for smaller or some mid-sized businesses. Depending upon the required process improvement and customization involved, implementation can be lengthy. This is not a quick-start and inexpensive product, but will provide great results and very satisfied new hires from their perspective. We have had wonderful feedback!
Katherine Wiggans | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Like any computer application, RedCarpet is better suited for populations that are comfortable using a computer. If your population is not computer literate, I would definitely think about whether a computer solution is right for you. Also, if you need the application available in another language, know that your team will be doing all of the translations.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I like the idea of RedCarpet. If it was fully functional for us, I really think it would be a great tool to use. However, the lack of response and the response time itself in tech support is definitely a downfall for our company.
Trevor Cherr | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If your main goal is to develop consistency in your processes, RedCarpet is a huge help. However, if you have employees who are less honest, it could pose a problem. For example, it would be very easy for an employee to indicate he/she completed tasks in the system without actually doing them. You have to ensure that tasks are actually getting done, not just being marked complete in the system to remove them from people's to-do list.
Cassandra L. Arnold | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RedCarpet is a good system for standardization and timeliness for onboarding new employees. It provides dashboards for each person involved to see the status of events. I like how the system lists the dated tasks with the links to the other systems needed to complete the tasks. You get emails when tasks are due. If you need data for onboarding metrics or just simply dates and whom, you can get this from RedCarpet.
February 04, 2015

Frustrated User

Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would potentially recommend RedCarpet for a larger organization that has staff that can solely focus on building out the system and trouble shooting when problems arise. As someone who was the sole recruiter in addition to handling the RedCarpet implementation it was very difficult to move at the speed suggested by the RedCarpet Project Manager. It could potentially be easier for someone with more of a technical and marketing background.
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