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Exit Interview, Stage Right
By Nick Corcodilos |
Exit interviews fascinate me like cockroaches do. An exit interview is the meeting a company's human resources department has with an employee who has
been terminated or who has resigned. Like the Top Ten Stupid Interview
Questions,
exit interviews are the cockroaches of the human resources world: no one
knows why they exist, no one can justify or eliminate them, and they will
likely survive into the third millennium.
While most companies still conduct exit interviews, many human resources
managers tell me they don't bother with them any more. For reasons I'll
outline
in this article, I think employers should be embarrassed to conduct exit
interviews and employees should be smart enough to decline them.
The ostensible objective of the exit interview is to help the company
"improve
the way it does things" so fifty more employees won't quit in the coming
weeks. In other words, If you'll just tell us why you are resigning,
we'll
see to it that no one else ever has to resign for those same reasons. Why,
we'll change our company for the better, and thank you for your candor.
The credibility gap
According to a white paper titled "Exit Interviews" by Nina Drake and Ian Robb from the Society
for Human Resource Management (SHRM), "exit interviews represent a prime
opportunity to gain candid information on employment conditions" within a
company. This is purely wishful thinking, and very naïve at best. Exit interviews invade an employee's privacy and
insult his intelligence. Employers can't possibly believe they're going to
get credible information in such a meeting.
Invading privacy
The decision to quit a job (or the reaction to being fired) is personal and often complex. I believe it is utterly presumptuous of a company to
require an employee to explain it. Unless the employee wants to talk about
it, it's not the company's business. If the company had any right to this
information, it was only while the employee was a committed member of
the team, not after he has decided to leave...
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