Oracle new hire -- what process do you use to trigger the AD Account creation?

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We are finding a disconnect between when the employee signs the offer letter to the notification to our IT department to create the Active Directory Account. What are other organizations doing to ensure that the user account for the newly hired employee is created and timely? Currently we are performing these actions manually after an email notification.

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