How Digital Treasure Hunts Enhance Onboarding for New Hires

For many graduates and international hires, starting a new role in Ireland also means starting a new life in an unfamiliar town or city. Traditional onboarding programmes often focus on policies and procedures, but few address how daunting it can feel to navigate a new environment while trying to connect with colleagues.

That’s where onboarding team building activities like a** Digital Treasure Hunt** come in. This fun, interactive experience helps new hires settle into their team and their new city from day one.

What is a Digital Treasure Hunt?

When choosing onboarding activities for new hires in Ireland, companies often look for experiences that build connection, ease first-day nerves and introduce company culture in a natural way. A Digital Treasure Hunt does exactly that.

We offer two flexible formats:

• Fully managed: Our event managers are on site to run everything from start to finish.
• Remote host: We deliver the briefing and results virtually, while supporting your group in person from our control centre.

Why choose a Digital Treasure Hunt for onboarding?

Onboarding should help new hires feel confident, connected and ready to contribute. A Digital Treasure Hunt achieves this by combining team building with orientation in a fun, purposeful way.

1. Build stronger teams

New hires collaborate in small groups, strengthening communication, problem-solving and teamwork skills from the start.

2. Help them feel welcome

Exploring the city with colleagues helps international and relocated hires feel included and valued.

3. Ease first-day nerves

A relaxed, social activity takes the pressure off and creates a positive first impression of your culture.

4. Reinforce your company values

We can include your branding and custom questions in the game to reinforce key messages from onboarding presentations.

What do participants actually do?

As part of their onboarding team building experience, participants work in small groups to complete creative challenges around their new city. Tasks include trivia questions, photo challenges and creative video challenges. Rounds cover a wide variety of themes like sport, music, movies, TV, brainteasers and more, ensuring something for everyone.

Examples include:

• Recording a short magic trick video
• Creating an optical illusion photograph
• Answering company-related trivia based on earlier presentations
• Solving riddles and uncovering cultural facts about the city

We tailor every event to suit your objectives and group dynamics.

Practical details

We recommend booking four to seven weeks in advance to secure your preferred date. For clients who run regular onboarding sessions throughout the year, many choose to schedule them all in one go. We can also accommodate shorter lead times and last-minute requests whenever possible.

Sessions typically run from 90 minutes to 2.5 hours and can take place anywhere in Ireland, including Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway. We are flexible to your time needs.

If the weather is poor on the day, we can switch to an engaging indoor alternative at your venue. For participants with mobility needs, we can adjust the route or release additional venue-based tasks to ensure everyone can take part comfortably.

One HR client recently told us:

“Dynamic Events lived up to their name. They were agile, professional and delivered a really enjoyable experience for our new hires. Highly recommend.”

Make onboarding more effective

A Digital Treasure Hunt helps your new hires feel at home in their role, their team and their city from the very first day. Talk to us today to plan your next onboarding session and see how this engaging activity can make all the difference. You can also learn more about our full range of onboarding team building activities here.