<aside> 🌊 OVRSEA is a French start-up founded in 2017, which has now grown to become a pioneer of digitalized freight forwarding.
To successfully simplify and optimize our clients’ international transport orchestration (Nuxe, Devialet, Overnia, Cowboy...), we have focused, early on, on developing our in-house technology and designing an ultra-complete onboarding for new employees.
Our goal is simple: ensure talents from all backgrounds understand the challenges of international transport, through our tailored internal training program!
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<aside> 💼 Onboarding is key in any company. Ignition Program recently shared striking figures: 60% ****of young executives believe that companies do not manage their integration well, 17% of recent hires leave within the first three months, and 33% are looking for a new job by the end of their first semester.
At OVRSEA, we are strongly committed to welcoming and training newcomers as well as current employees, and the tailor-made onboarding we have designed has already paid off: out of the 100 employees that have joined a permanent position (CDI) over the last four years, 97% are still working at OVRSEA.
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<aside> 🌏 Improving our onboarding processes is a continuous focus: we are expecting 95 new hires by the end of the year - in France but also in the 3 countries we recently opened: the US, Spain and Italy!
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<aside> 💡 The onboarding journey at OVRSEA ensures that all newcomers familiarize themselves with both the missions they’ll handle and the different teams they’ll directly work with.
Taking it one step further, we strongly believe that enabling newcomers to meet with all teams, and understand both our global long-term strategy and our specific take on our industry is essential.
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<aside> 🐾 The first step of our onboarding process is to make sure all new hires feel eagerly expected. Communicating internally about new recruitment waves is essential as it enables all teams to be more involved in both training and integration of newcomers.
To this end, a few days prior to the start date, a new hire is contacted by both our office manager and a dedicated OVRSEA employee to set up his/her arrival.
Then, we welcome all newcomers ****around a team breakfast and ensure they are part of an onboarding cohort over their first three weeks.
Thanks to a personalized Notion page itemizing both the different ressources to browse independently and the workshops to follow on a daily or weekly basis, each newcomer will have a clear view of the first steps to take upon arrival :
<aside> 🚢 discover our international transport industry - thanks to our Transport Academy and workshops led by our COO - ****N.B - Expertise is never required before joining : only 10% of employees come from our industry and training can last up to 2 months for the teams that handle our core business activity ;
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<aside> 🎯 explore the challenges faced by all different teams (marketing, sales, ops, tech...) in an interactive way - thanks to workshops led by the Heads of each team ;
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<aside> 👀 shadow other teams’ members to understand more practically their role at OVRSEA and daily tasks - thanks to shadowing workshops focusing on our platform and our internal tools (especially Notion, real gold mine for all newcomers) ;
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<aside> 📣 ask questions & give feedback to challenge OVRSEA’s traditions and contribute to continuously improve our methods - thanks both to a real feedback process (including, for each newcomer, an amazement report led by HRs and followed by all founders) and informal discussions (random coffees and lunches) with other teams’ members and with Arthur, our CEO.
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understand the founders’ vision since inception, the international expansion ambitions and the current supply chain challenges - thanks to workshops led by our CEO ;
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In a nutshell, we’ve built a tailored onboarding process structured around care, pedagogy and questioning. Stressing these values from the very beginning ensures OVRSEA fosters a sane work environment where people can thrive while offering clear career paths and daily learnings for all.
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“I was struck by the quality of the Transport Academy and the onboarding process, both built and available for all new joiners on Notion!” Baudouin, Sales Team
“I appreciated having the opportunity to meet everyone in 121, having moments to learn the basics of the sector and the challenges of each team” Julie, Operations Team
“The caring on the day of arrival and throughout the process is incredible, you immediately feel at ease with everyone! Everything is well thought out, very clear and complete” Maria, Sales Team
“I was amazed by the availability of everyone, willing to help at any time! Enjoyed having a completely filled agenda for the first weeks, a hyper-structured onboarding!” Antoine, US Launch Team
“The most successful onboarding I have ever experienced!” Vianney, Pricing Team
“Need to maintain this quality of tailor-made onboarding even if the company grows a lot! Feeling so welcomed is really appreciated” Nicolas, Sales Team