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Business Definition for: Exit Interview

a meeting between an employee and a management representative on the employee's departure from an organization. An exit interview is conducted in order to ascertain why an employee is leaving, either because of pull factors, such as better pay and conditions, or push factors, such as poor training or management. Another purpose of the exit interview is to capture information relating to the departing employee's knowledge and experience.

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What is an Exit Interview ?: In human resource terms, an exit interview is a survey that is conducted with an employee when he or she leaves the company. The information from each exit interview is used to provide feedback on why employees are leaving, what they liked about their employment and what areas of the...; Tags: Exit Interview, Nobscot; White papers 2002-01-01
Automate The Exit Interview Process With Word, Excel, Or Access: When you conduct an exit interview, what you really want to know is why the employee is leaving your company. Then you need to get that information to management so that the appropriate changes can be made before more good employees walk out the door. When the door closes after...; Tags: Exit Interview, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Tips For Conducting An Exit Interview: An exit interview is an opportunity to end things in the most positive and constructive manner and to tie off loose strings for both employee and employer. It is important to prepare before conducting any kind of interview. There are several choices that can be made prior to the exit...; Tags: Exit Interview, HELIUM; White papers 2008-01-01
Exit Interview Questions & Techniques: This paper is for people who are facing the prospect of answering exit interview questions through voluntary resignation, lay-off or firing. Employers to collect information that will help them enhance/correct their workplace practices, helping to improve working conditions and opportunities, use them. Ultimately, employers use this type of information to...; Tags: Technique, Exit Interview, Professional CV Writing Services; White papers 2009-01-01
Pharmalot's Ed Silverman: The Exit Interview: On Monday, Pharmalot's Ed Silverman shocked the pharmaceutical business by returning from vacation and announcing that his blog was no more. Over the past two years, Pharmalot grew into the premier supplier of aggregated drug news and a formidable producer of original content even BNET took the Pharmalot feed. In...; Tags: Exit Interview, Blog, Pharmalot, ES, Blogging, Internet, Jim Edwards; Blog posts 2009-01-06

The Importance of Exit Interviews: Exit interviews are a great resource for employers to find out what is going right and wrong with their company. However, employees will most likely feel intimidated in an exit interview, so it's important to give the reasons for it. The article gives few tips on what to do and...; Tags: Exit Interview; White papers 2001-11-30
Exit Interviews: The article discusses that an exit interview is a conversation between at least one company representative, often the HR manager, and the departing employee to discuss why the employee is leaving. A good exit interview provides the company with valuable information that can give it a competitive edge in recruiting...; Tags: Exit Interview; White papers 2000-01-07
An uphill struggle.(interview of Mervyn King governor of Bank of England)(Brief article): The decision by Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, to give an interview to the BBC's business editor Robert Peston, in Radio Four's File on Four special, may turn out, when the dust is settled, to be the longest exit interview in recen ...; Tags: Bank of England, Robert Peston; Research articles 2007-11-15
How To Conduct An Employee Exit Interview: Exit interviews can sometimes be ugly or uncomfortable affairs. Sometimes just getting the employee to participate can be a challenge. Given the difficult nature of these interviews, it is important to make them as profitable as possible for the employee and the company. You need to ask questions that will...; Tags: Exit Interview, Employee, Associated Content; White papers 2007-04-10
How To Ease Tension During The Employee Termination Interview: There are things you can do to prepare for terminating an employee such as having factual documentation to support your findings for the firing and having security available, if needed; but when it comes down to the exit interview you can only prepare so much, as you have no idea...; Tags: Employee, Termination, Associated Content, Workforce Management, Human Resources; White papers 2008-06-10
Say Goodbye to the Exit Interview | BTalk Australia: (12min 47) Can you really get useful information about your company from someone who has one foot out the door? Jason Blaik from OneTest says that you can, but believes an interview is not the way to do it. In todayâ€™s BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie asks...; Tags: Exit Interview, Podcasts, Internet, Phil Dobbie; Blog posts 2009-04-16
Handling Your Resignation with Style: No matter what your reasons for resigning, you want to leave on good terms; the relationships you have developed in your present job may be of value to you in the future. If your decision to leave is based on "pull" factors, you may decide to handle it differently from...; Tags: resignation, job, career; Articles 2007-05-08
ECB Urges Banks to Prepare For Slow Exit: By Sakari Suoninen and Boris GroendahlNICOSIA/VIENNA (Reuters UK) - The European Central Bank will not drop all of its extra liquidity support until it becomes concerned about risks on inflation, Governing Council member Athanasios Orphanides told Reuters.In an interview with Reuters, Orphanides said inflation expectations over the ECB's policy horizon...; Tags: Bank, Financial, Liquidity, ECB, Financial Services, Finance, Inflation, Oukbs; News items 2009-11-16
Keep Your People: One of the keys to long-term success, employee retention nevertheless remains a mystery to many companies. Stalwart retention tools like the exit interview donâ€™t seem to work so well for most companies. On their way out the door, employees have little incentive to provide constructive criticism that...; Tags: Management, Team Management, Employee Retention, Employee, Jeff Palfini; Blog posts 2007-11-22
Exit Interviews: Constructive Feedback, Smoother Transitions: HR professionals generally recognize that exit interviews-whether conducted in a voluntary or involuntary termination situation-can generate a wealth of useful information about an organization's working environment. The interviews also help tie up loose ends with departing employees. Information they obtain from employees during exit interviews can provide you with significant...; Tags: Exit Interview, Environment; White papers 2003-01-01
Exit Interviews: A Good Early Warning System: "Standard forms or interview checklists, when used by interviewers, will make it possible to establish a factual basis on which to evaluate institution-wide terminations, and a clear basis also for interpreting the employees' responses and attitudes. These forms should be filled out after the interview. There should be a...; Tags: Exit Interview, Employee, HR.com, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources; White papers 2000-09-06
Interview Feedback: Though it is ideal to be able to get an instant interview feedback on the way an interview was given, it seldom happens. Every candidate at the end has the same question in mind at the time of exit - 'Did I make it'? Though in reality, the gut feeling...; Tags: Feedback; White papers 2008-01-01
Best Way To Finish An Interview: There are many ways to finish an interview - many are good and are directly dependent on the nature of the person. However, the best ways to finish an interview has a few basic ingredients, which are discussed in this paper. The most important aspect of the exit line of...; Tags: Interview, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Don't talk of Iraq exit strategy: Rice: WASHINGTON AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice predicted that Iraq's successful elections would trigger a new spirit of international cooperation to help the country but refused to speak of an "exit strategy." In an interview with AFP and Reuters news agencies two days before heading off for...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Iraq, Strategy; Research articles 2005-02-01
BHP tipped to exit Angola.: May 23, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Merrill Lynch says Australia's BHP Billiton is about to exit its interests in Angola and Bolivia. Following an interview with BHP Petroleum president, Steve Bell, Merrill reported the move follows unsuccessful exploration efforts...; Tags: Australia, FINANCE, Investment, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.; Research articles 2002-05-24

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