The Exit Interview

The professional relationship of employment, like any relationship that people initiate, goes through certain stages of life: from initiation to development and conclusion. In any relationship, including the professional one of employment, the way we separate from the other, the way we close the relationship, reflects the quality of the relationship itself.

"The Exit Interview" is the discussion that the employer has with the employee who leaves the organization. It's not an interview in itself, or it shouldn't be. It is the discussion, the dialogue between the company and the one who is about to leave the company.

The discussion of closing the employment relationship communicates the mature separation between the two professional partners and aims to obtain and provide feedback on the employment relationship. The exit discussion is under the responsibility of the human resources department, but the manager of the person who will leave the company can also lead such a discussion.

Following the exit discussion, the company learns what can be improved and what needs to be done more, and the employee receives feedback on his work in general, receives appreciation for the impact of his work on the organizational performance.

The professionalism of a company's exit process is one of those essential indicators of the company's respect for its employees, and the professionalism of this process, beyond any better or less well-constructed form, is communicated by the professionalism of the exit discussion.