Zavvy

Though the global HR firmament has adopted a myriad of technologies, the employee onboarding domain still lags behind its counterparts. Today, where professionals expect companies to be more responsive, empathetic, and connected, outdated onboarding processes and overwhelming amounts of email cannot ensure a positive experience for new joiners. Complicated spreadsheets and unappealing online meetings exhaust not only the talent acquisition executives but also the candidates. “Career development is essential for why people join and stay at a company, especially for Gen Y and Z. If you are not enabling your team to develop, it is just a matter of time until they leave,” say Mehmet Yilmaz and Joshua Cornelius, co-founders of Zavvy. The München-based company empowers organisations to transform their employee onboarding processes and foster a culture that promotes collaboration and efficiency. The company’s namesake employee enablement platform empowers HR teams to successfully onboard recruits and ensure their engagement in the long run.

Founded in 2021, Zavvy utilises existing individuals’ information to enable employees in the flow of work. This results in a new experience layer between HRIS and other communication platforms such as Slack or Microsoft Teams. Zavvy’s no-code characteristics eliminate manual work for HR managers, allowing them to tailor onboarding experiences and seamlessly integrate with the existing SaaS tool stack. Once the employee onboarding is designed, the whole process can be automated, significantly enhancing the process and employeeengagement.

“Professional development requires solutions that are easy-to-use, social, and embedded into the workflow. An engaging experience is a must,” say Yilmaz and Cornelius.

Using Zavvy, companies can deliver unique onboarding experiences at the click of a button. HR managers can create a welcoming experience that boosts employee engagement and morale, and helps recruits become more productive. Users can set up automated assignments and tasks, giving talent acquisition executives peace of mind, and enabling them to focus on more critical processes. Zavvy provides valuable insights through an employee’s journey, enabling team leads to monitor progress and identify their strengths and weaknesses. Owing to such an employee-centric approach, Zavvy has garnered the attention of several industry leaders in Europe’s business community. One of its clients, Storybook, saved over fifteen hours every week while executing its remote onboarding processes.

As a fully-remote growing company, Storybook aspired not to compromise on culture while achieving its hypergrowth objectives. Interestingly, Storybook did not have any ‘HR’ department. Storybook created an onboarding experience that focused on making human connections and addressed the anxieties new recruits have at the beginning of their terms. By executing a diversified, personalised, and empathetic onboarding process, Storybook hired over a hundred employees within a year, raising its headcount from 33 to 139. This story is an archetype of the several success stories that Zavvy has scripted with its clients. With the goal to adorn innovative companies with all the tools required to grow swiftly, Zavvy renders its platform to mid-sized modern organisations and has onboarded several clients since its soft launch. Looking ahead, the company will invest more in its products and expand its customer base.