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Employee Onboarding Bingo for New Starters

Turn part of the onboarding process into something new starters can actively take part in.

Instead of asking someone to absorb everything from an induction pack at once, a card turns a selection of social and practical discoveries into small tasks they can complete naturally.

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What is Employee Onboarding Bingo?

Employee Onboarding Bingo is a card of prompts that give a new starter useful reasons to meet colleagues, find important resources and learn how everyday work gets done. It works best as one part of onboarding, alongside the conversations, training and information a new employee genuinely needs.

It can be used by HR and people teams, line managers, team leaders, trainers and anyone coordinating a new-starter programme, for a single new hire or a full intake.

Use it as a first-day icebreaker

A first-day version can help with introductions and basic workplace orientation: meeting the team, finding the people who will help most in week one and learning where things are.

For a graduate or cohort induction, include more prompts that encourage participants to meet one another rather than only established colleagues.

Turn onboarding activities into a game

A first-week version can include tasks that take longer, such as meeting somebody from another department, learning how a routine process works or finding out who owns a particular area of work.

  • Meet someone from a different department.
  • Find out who to contact for IT help.
  • Learn how to book a meeting room.
  • Find the main staff information or intranet area.
  • Ask a colleague for a useful first-week tip.
  • Meet someone who joined within the last year.
  • Find out how holiday requests are submitted.
  • Learn where your team normally shares updates.
  • Introduce yourself to somebody you will work with regularly.
  • Find one benefit, resource or facility you did not know about.
  • Ask your manager which recurring meeting matters most to your role.
  • Learn one thing about how the organisation started.

Keep mandatory training and essential employment information outside the game. Bingo is useful for the parts of onboarding that benefit from exploration and conversation; it should not make important policies or safety instructions optional.

Make prompts specific to your organisation

  • Use real team names, tools and locations where doing so helps the new starter.
  • Avoid personal prompts that could put somebody under pressure to disclose information.
  • Do not make the card so long that it becomes another onboarding burden.
  • Give managers or buddies context so they can help rather than wait for the new starter to ask.
  • Review the prompts periodically; onboarding processes change.

In-person and remote onboarding

A live game is useful when several new starters are taking part together or when the activity is introduced in a group induction. Participants join on their phones without needing their own accounts.

Printable cards work well when the activity runs across several days, when phones would be distracting, or when the card belongs in a physical induction pack.

For remote starters, replace physical-location tasks with things such as meeting colleagues on calls, finding shared resources, learning communication norms or identifying who to contact for support.

How to run it

  1. Choose whether the activity should last an hour, a day or the first week.
  2. Pick prompts that are genuinely useful for a new starter to complete.
  3. Use RoomZing to customise the card and remove anything irrelevant.
  4. Share the game live using a join code or QR code, or print randomised cards.
  5. Explain whether the goal is one line, a full card or simply completing as many useful prompts as possible.
  6. Check in afterwards. The value is in what the new starter learned and who they met.

Onboarding Bingo or a ready-made template?

Start with the New Employee Onboarding Bingo Template if you want a complete first-week activity you can customise rather than build from scratch.

Use Workplace Safety Bingo when the goal is specifically observation and familiarisation around a workplace, and keep it separate from formal safety training.

A Training Session Bingo activity suits structured learning, while Team Building Bingo focuses on colleagues getting to know one another.

Frequently asked questions

There is no single right length. A social welcome version can take 15-20 minutes, while a practical onboarding card can run across the first few days or the first week. Match the timescale to the tasks on the card.

Yes. The activity can work as a guided first-week checklist for one person. The new starter completes prompts by meeting colleagues, locating resources and learning routine processes.

Yes, but the prompts need to reflect remote work. Replace physical-location tasks with things such as meeting colleagues on calls, finding shared resources, learning communication norms or identifying who to contact for support.

No. Treat it as a supporting activity. Policies, safety information, role expectations and required training should still be delivered clearly and directly.

RoomZing supports custom branding subject to the organiser's plan, so the game can be adapted to fit an organisation's colours and identity.

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Create an onboarding game for your team

Choose your prompts, make them relevant to your workplace and give new starters an onboarding activity they can actually take part in.

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