Employee onboarding video: what to put in it, three outlines, and how to make one

An employee onboarding video should answer what a new hire worries about on day one: where things are, who the people are, how things work here, and what the first week looks like. Keep it to two to four minutes, use your real place and your company's look, and make one per site or role rather than one for everyone.

Updated 28 October 2026

What to put in it

Part	What it answers	Seconds
The welcome	who we are, in one sentence, from someone they will meet	15
The place	the entrance, their desk or station, the staff room, the exits	40
The people	their manager, their buddy, who to ask for what	40
How things work	the two or three habits that matter here	40
The first week	what happens on Monday, Wednesday, Friday	30
The line	the one thing to remember, on screen	5

Three outlines

A bank or credit union branchThe front door at opening; the service counter and the back office; the branch manager and the senior teller who will shadow them; the two habits (verify identity, never leave the drawer open); the first week of shadowing, then the first shift alone.

A clinicReception, the consulting rooms, the staff room; the practice manager and the nurse who orients them; patient privacy at the desk and the booking system; the first week from shadowing to the first full day.

A plant floorThe gate, the locker room, the line they will work; the supervisor and the buddy; PPE and the lockout rule; the first week from induction to the first supervised shift.

Make it look like your place

New hires trust a video that looks like the building they are walking into. In Nima Learn, a few photos of the real place (the street front, the counter, the staff room) seed the places the film is drawn in, and the brand folder puts your logo and colours on every picture. The cast is built once, so the manager in the welcome is the same manager in every later video.

How to make it

Paste the brief. The policy, the procedure or the situation you want people to handle. Nima Learn's director, an AI assistant you talk to, drafts the plan: the scenes, the shots, who is in them, the places and the lines.
Fix the plan. Reorder or retime the scenes, cut one in two, ask for a reaction shot. The plan is the thing you edit, and a change to it redraws the storyboard.
Approve the cast and the places. Each character is built once and reused in every shot. Add your brand folder (logo, fonts, colours) and photos of the real place if you want the film to look like your branch, clinic or plant.
Walk the storyboard. Circle any part of a picture and say what to change; the rest of the picture stays put. Write the lines on the shot's timeline and drag them to their second.
Choose the motion per shot. Camera moves, highlights and on-screen text are drawn in seconds; full character movement is rendered by a video model only on the shots that need it.
Record, preview, export. Every line is voiced as a take, music is made for the film, and the export is one mp4.

Common questions

What should be included in an employee onboarding video?

A welcome, the place, the people they will work with, the two or three habits that matter, and what the first week looks like. Two to four minutes.

How long should an onboarding video be?

Two to four minutes for the welcome. Put procedures in their own short videos.

Can we use photos of our own building?

Yes. Reference photos of your premises seed the places, so the film looks like where the new hire will work.

Does it export to my LMS?

Nima Learn exports an mp4, which most learning platforms accept as a video item.

How do I get started with Nima Learn?

Through the form on the Nima Learn page: tell us what you want to make, and our team gets back to you.

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