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Exit Interview

An Exit Interview is sometimes conducted with employees after they've announced that they are resigning from a company.  The interview is usually held with a member of the human resources department in the hopes that the dialog will be open and honest.

Exit interviews are can be part of the normal process of leaving a company or they can be used to gather specific information when a problem might exist within a department.  For example, if a large proportion of employees begin to leave a department it may indicate a widespread problem at that location.  The exit interview would attempt to figure out why employees are leaving.

Unlike other job interviews that are used to select candidates for an opening within a company, the exit interview is a form of marketing research and the results are used to make corrections process corrections within a department.  The ultimate objective of the exit interview is to retain valuable employees in the future.

Other forms of this term include - exit interviews, exit interviewing

 
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