BobbinQuick answer
Keep it to 2–3 min: welcome them by name, show where things live, explain the first week, and say who to ask. Record your screen with your face in a bubble so it feels personal. Script below.
The script: Day-one welcome for a new teammate (2–3 min)
Use when: Before or on a new hire's first day, so they have context before the first meeting.
Set up:
- Open the team page, the week-one checklist and the main tool
- Write their name on screen somewhere (a doc title works)
- Look at the camera for the first 10 seconds
| Time | Show / beat | Say (fill the [blanks]) |
|---|---|---|
| 0–20 s | Personal welcome | Hi [NAME], welcome to [TEAM]. I am [YOUR NAME], your [ROLE]. Watch this whenever suits you this week. |
| 20–60 s | Why your role exists | You are joining because [REAL REASON THE ROLE WAS OPENED]. In three months, success looks like [CONCRETE OUTCOME]. |
| 60–110 s | Week one | This week you will: [THING 1], [THING 2], [THING 3]. Here is the checklist; tick things off as you go. |
| 110–150 s | Who to ask | For [TOPIC] ask [PERSON]. For anything else, ask me in [CHANNEL]. No question is too small in week one. |
| 150–180 s | One unwritten rule | One thing nobody writes down: [UNWRITTEN RULE, e.g. "we reply to client email the same day, even if just to say we are on it"]. |
Why it works: The "unwritten rule" beat is the most-rewatched part of welcome videos. It is the context new people cannot get from the handbook.
Close: Tell them exactly where to ask their first question.
Plain-text version to copy
Day-one welcome for a new teammate (2–3 min)
Use when: Before or on a new hire's first day, so they have context before the first meeting.
Set up:
- Open the team page, the week-one checklist and the main tool
- Write their name on screen somewhere (a doc title works)
- Look at the camera for the first 10 seconds
[0–20 s] Personal welcome
"Hi [NAME], welcome to [TEAM]. I am [YOUR NAME], your [ROLE]. Watch this whenever suits you this week."
[20–60 s] Why your role exists
"You are joining because [REAL REASON THE ROLE WAS OPENED]. In three months, success looks like [CONCRETE OUTCOME]."
[60–110 s] Week one
"This week you will: [THING 1], [THING 2], [THING 3]. Here is the checklist; tick things off as you go."
[110–150 s] Who to ask
"For [TOPIC] ask [PERSON]. For anything else, ask me in [CHANNEL]. No question is too small in week one."
[150–180 s] One unwritten rule
"One thing nobody writes down: [UNWRITTEN RULE, e.g. "we reply to client email the same day, even if just to say we are on it"]."
Close: Tell them exactly where to ask their first question.Client onboarding? The playbook also has a client onboarding kickoff script for agencies and freelancers (O6), a tool tour (O2) and a handover script (O4).
Record the video part
Keep the script open on a second screen or a printed page, and record in one take; pause between sections instead of stopping. Bobbin is a free Chrome extension that records your screen, a window or a tab with your microphone and an optional webcam bubble. No account, no watermark, no time limit, and nothing is uploaded: the file stays on your computer.
- Click the Bobbin icon in Chrome's toolbar and choose Record screen, window or tab.
- Pick your microphone and turn on the camera if you want the webcam bubble.
- Press Start recording, choose what to share in Chrome's picker, and wait for the 3-second countdown.
- Pause with Alt+Shift+P, stop with Alt+Shift+S, then press Download to save the file.
Share a window or the entire screen so your webcam bubble is in the video (it doesn't appear in single-tab recordings). Bobbin saves MP4 where your browser supports it (Chrome 126 or newer), WebM otherwise, and tells you which it used.
File size: our 60-minute 1080p test came to about 246 MB (roughly 4 MB a minute) on a simple synthetic screen; busy real screens can be larger, so a 1–2 minute clip is usually small enough to attach.
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