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Exit Interviews Are Band Aids On Broken Legs

by Lance Haun on May 26, 2009

So let’s say you’re working for a company with turnover problems (i.e. losing your best people to competitors) and management comes to Human Resources to figure out why people are leaving. What far too many HR people will suggest is that the organization should use an exit interview to get the information and report on [...]

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Exit interviews do nothing

by Lance Haun on August 30, 2006

Inspired by this article on The Onion (a satire newspaper and website), I wanted to share with you my thoughts on exit interviews.
The purpose of the exit interview is two fold (one obvious, one not so obvious):
1. To gather data from departing employees on working conditions to improve retention
2. To attempt to protect from litigation.
The [...]

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