MODULE 3 · TALENT TALK — ENGLISH FOR HR
Onboarding International Hires
One new hire in three leaves within ninety days. Often, the signs were there in week one.
In this module you will learn to welcome someone into your company in English: the email before they arrive, the first day, the explanations that a person from another country genuinely needs, and the check-ins that catch a problem while it is still small. You will practise with a new colleague who is too polite to tell you that he is lost.
🎯 By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- write a welcome email that answers the questions people are afraid to ask;
- explain the first day, the first week and the first month clearly;
- talk about policies, tools and benefits without drowning someone in detail;
- run a check-in that gets an honest answer;
- notice when a new hire is struggling and say something useful.
🔤 Grammar in this module. Future forms for arrangements and plans (you’ll meet, you’re going to spend, we’re starting) and articles & determiners — the small words that make instructions clear. Each has a short explanation and G1–G4 practice.
📦 What’s inside this module
- Reading — They Decide in the First Week: why new hires decide in the first week whether to stay, with key vocabulary.
- Vocabulary — eight flip-cards with pronunciation.
- Useful Language — phrases for welcoming a new colleague and checking in, with a dialogue to listen to.
- Writing Practice — The Welcome Email: a short task with instant feedback from an AI coach.
- Podcast — a trainer lists what has to be ready before a new person walks in, with transcript and a short quiz.
- Roleplay — The Two-Week Check-In, with the AI Tutor, out loud or in writing.
- Unit Review & Final Quiz — revision notes, then everything from the module (you need 70% to pass).
🤖 Stuck on a phrase? Ask the AI Tutor at any point in this module — a word, a phrase, “is this too direct?”
Nobody remembers a perfect induction pack. Everybody remembers who made them feel welcome. Let’s begin. 🚀