🔗 53:In this Basecamp Office Hours session (recorded live on June 14, 2023), Ashley and Kimberly from the Basecamp Customer Success team are joined by Basecamp People Operations team – Head of People Andrea LaRowe, and Recruiter Bethany Weidmeier. During this one-hour session, the team shows how Basecamp can be set up for company Human Resource functions, recruiting, and onboarding new employees. The Basecamp team also answer customer questions live during the webinar.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

04:30 - How the HR team used Basecamp to plan the company meet-up

09:15 - Andrea LaRowe's role at Basecamp

10:30 - Bethany Wiedmeier's role at Basecamp

11:15 - People Operations project in Basecamp

20:00 - How to manage employee performance ratings in Basecamp

23:00 - Q&A: KPIs and 360 reviews

24:24 - Using templates in Basecamp for Hiring & Onboarding

26:42 - Employee onboarding "welcome" project

30:48 - Using public links to give a future employee access to a Basecamp message

32:12 - Docs and Files in onboarding projects

33:20 - Campfire for new employees

33:45 - Schedule in an onboarding project

34:30 - Q&A: How to convince your peers to not just use email for onboarding and offboarding

38:25 - Assigning to-dos

39:27 - Using Basecamp for recruiting

40:12 - Message Board for a recruiting project

41:10 - Docs & Files for recruiting projects

42:50 - Team interview notes & job descriptions in Basecamp Docs & Files

44:40 - To-dos in recruiting projects

47:00 - Q&A: To-do list templates

48:40 - Q&A: When to use To-dos vs. Card table

50:35 - Q&A: Using Hill Charts

52:15 - Bulk date changes on To-Do lists

53:24 - Q&A: Subscribing to Schedules

56:02 - Viewing a change log in Docs & Files

57:10 - Q&A: Can you embed Basecamp into another website?

57:57 - Q&A: Favorite sources for recruiting resources?

58:49 - How to reach out to for more help – Email guides@basecamp.com

Helpful Links:
🔗 Video tutorials: https://basecamp.com/learn
🔗 REWORK podcast: https://37signals.com/podcast/
🔗 Using Card Table video tutorial: https://basecamp.com/learn/beyond-the-basics/card-table
🔗 Templates: https://3.basecamp-help.com/article/66-templates
🔗 Hill Charts: https://3.basecamp-help.com/article/412-hill-charts
🔗 Bulk Date Changes: https://3.basecamp-help.com/article/48-to-dos#bulk-assign-archive-edit-due-dates
🔗 Subscribing to Schedules: https://3.basecamp-help.com/article/49-schedule#sync-your-schedule-with-an-external-calendar
🔗 Viewing Change Logs: https://3.basecamp-help.com/article/51-docs-files#document-versioning

For follow up questions, reach out to guides@basecamp.com