If you are responsible for minimizing turnover, Exit Interviews provide the best information to help you implement effective retention strategies. If you are responsible for recruitment, Exit Interviews offer a valuable resource of information to help you hire people who will stay long term. The objective of Exit Interviews is to get honest feedback from departing employees on a variety of areas.
Employees often are afraid to tell the interviewer how they really feel.
It is difficult to track exit interview results over time. It provides an environment where employees are more comfortable to give honest feedback. It provides hard data that can be shared with department managers and senior executive staff. To get the most accurate results, All departing employees should be encouraged to take the exit interview. This will allow comparison between departments as well as benchmarks within the organization.