Exit Interviews
November 28, 2005
Do you conduct exit interviews? For some reason Architel does not. No one knows why, it is in the handbook that exit interviews ’should’ be done, but for some reason no one wants to do them. (I am going to start doing them for Architel)
Rick Segal had an interesting post on exit interviews that prompted this idea. He had a few suggestions that I think will work for Architel. Here is what I am going to implement (after talking to Scott of course!):
- Do the interview myself (until I have done 100).
- Thank the outgoing employee for his service.
- Offer to rehire them if they change their mind (give them a free pass to get to the head of the line for another position - assuming they are a rehire)
- Keep a connection (offer them a name@ex-architel.com email address, offer to let them keep their personal website/blog/wiki hosted at the company for free, invite them back for company parties)
- Give them respect. Treat former employees like Veterans - honor them. Perhaps we will create a page of honor for the former employees who helped build the company.
Read Rick’s full post. I think it is interesting and worth the time. Check it out here.
