Confluence Onboarding Page Template
Your onboarding page should help new hires understand your business. Our template for Confluence gets you started, with two variants to pick from to suit your brand.
Want to use our onboarding page template? Simply install Content Formatting Macros and choose it from the Confluence templates library.
Once you've installed Content Formatting Macros, follow these steps:
- In Confluence, click Templates in the top menu bar.
- Click on the templates search bar and type ‘Content Formatting Macros’.
- Select either ‘Onboarding Page’ template (Serenity or Modern themes), then click Use template to get started.
You can also view and use all the templates from the Content Formatting Macros app homepage. Just click Apps > Content Formatting Macros, scroll down to the templates section, and choose a template.
What is an onboarding page?
An onboarding page directs new hires to find the most important information and documents about your business. It typically includes a comprehensive checklist of tasks.
From an organisational chart to company news and essential documentation on policies and processes, it has everything to help get employees working efficiently.
Why does your company need an onboarding page?
Improve onboarding speed
It can take 3 months or more to onboard employees. There’s a lot of information for a new hire to take in, and that’s before we even account for institutional memory! An Onboarding age is a resource they can turn to any time during their first year to ensure they have all they need to thrive.
A constant source of fresh information
It’s been suggested that a new employee can take 1-2 years to become fully productive. An onboarding page can be constantly updated with fresh insights from other new hires, building a really useful guide for everyone.
Enhance engagement
A dry manual for a new employee doesn’t convey that you are a forward-thinking, dynamic, or exciting business! In contrast, an onboarding page can be customised to your brand.
We love the Modern and Serenity templates; beautiful examples that look and feel a million miles away from a plain document new starters will begrudge reading.
What elements should an onboarding page include?
On-brand styling
Choosing the right template ensures that your onboarding page aligns with your brand’s visual identity. Consider the Modern onboarding page template with its bright and attention-grabbing colours, or the Serenity onboarding page template with its calming aesthetic.
The vibrant Modern onboarding page (left), and the calming Serenity onboarding page (right)
Checklists
A well-structured landing page outlining the onboarding process's introduction, instructions, and contents. Why not consider:
- Security Checklist: Ensure all security measures are understood and followed.
- Education Checklist: Employees can review essential learning materials and policies.
- Access Checklist: Verify that all access permissions are granted and understood.
Goals
- New team members should have an area of goals and objectives that align the brown KPIs with the company's objectives
Links to Resources:
- Job or process descriptions
- Best practices
- FAQs
- Employee benefit details
- HR contact info
Interactive Courses
- Use apps like Guided Pathways for Confluence to create structured onboarding courses from your pages for a seamless learning experience.
What macros does the template use?
Our Confluence onboarding templates are designed to make sense to new users. Macros include:
- Background macros - We've added a large header image with a title to add style to the page. Each section has a distinct background colour to make it even easier to navigate.
- Button macros - Confluence buttons link to important content and pages in a visually engaging way.
How to use our onboarding page template
Now that you know what an onboarding page is and why you need one, you can download and use our template using Content Formatting Macros for Confluence.
