How to Initiate Hire?

This article will explain how to Initiate Hire which will automatically change an employee's status from Prehire to Active on the effective date.

If you are using Prehire employment status, you will have to manually initiate hire when the employee's Start Date comes.  You can do that by:

1. Accessing the Employee's profile in People, 
2. Clicking on Actions, 
3. Choosing Initiate Hire. Once you click, you will get a chance to double-check the information such as Position, Department, Division, Location, Start Date, etc.
4. Click Save, which will automatically change employee's employment status to Active.

This will trigger Onboard checklists in case you have them and your newly hired employee will get all of their onboarding tasks automatically.

Here is a video with the steps mentioned above:

"Initiate Hire" action is also used for rehiring terminated employees.