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Mentoring use case

New hire onboarding

“Our new hires take too long to become autonomous.”

What we hear from HR teams

Give every new hire a buddy from day 1, automatically. RandomCoffee handles the matching, reminders, and tracking so your new hires reach autonomy faster.

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What is a buddy program?

A buddy program pairs every new hire with an experienced employee outside their reporting line. The buddy doesn't evaluate or train: they answer the questions no one dares ask their manager, decode the culture and unwritten rules, and jump-start the new hire's first circle of relationships.

It's one of the most effective onboarding levers, and one of the most fragile when run by hand: HR forgets to assign buddies, pairs never actually meet, and nobody tracks what's happening. The program quietly dies within three months.

How RandomCoffee automates your buddy program

Set it up once. Every new hire gets their buddy from then on, with zero manual work on your side.

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Connect your HRIS

Every new hire enters the program automatically on their start date. No manual imports, no spreadsheets.

2

Define your matching rules

A buddy outside the direct team, same office, enough tenure: your criteria, applied to every pair.

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Let meetings organize themselves

Invitations, reminders, and scheduling happen automatically, right inside Slack, Teams, or email.

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Track time to autonomy

Meeting rates, feedback from new hires and buddies, early warning signals: everything lands in your dashboard.

What it changes, concretely

→ A buddy from day 1, cutting the time to full autonomy.

-28%
junior employee turnover
measured after 6 months of structured programs across our customers.
91%
program completion rate
vs. 30–40% on average for manually run programs.
0
manual follow-ups
the program triggers itself from your HRIS, for every single arrival.

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Let's talk about your program

Tell us about your context and our experts will show you how to launch your “New hire onboarding” program with RandomCoffee, and what comparable organizations achieved.

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