EXIT INTERVIEW IS ESSENTIALLY AN ORCHESTRATED JOKE. Both the HR Head & The Departing Employee know that they have to go thru the process / charade on a no choice basis.
A smart employee quits gracefully without making any noise. A smart employee makes polite conversation during exit interview. Neither excessive praise of the last employer or any bad mouthing. I have not heard of any organization which bothers about any data gathered from an exit interview.
Do you know in EXIT interview the HR asks us will you stay back if you increase your pay and luring us into their trap. My sincere advise is once you said QUIT be super strong on it adn QUIT the organisation. but be polite but firm.
Don't rave, rant. Don't provide any feedback so that the organization does not find problem areas and improve. Just exit quietly. That's the best strategy.
Re: Exit interview strategy : Attack is the best form of defence.
by vignesh lal on Mar 29, 2010 10:20 AM
You are right VS : but we need to be good for our self a it will make us not bad to ourself.
This has become a problematic part of an organisation.These people never bothered about the talent rather tries to remain safest part of polarised corporates.All sounds good byt in actual they become the reason of speaking bad about good employee
I feel sorry for the author for the bookish tips being doled.
Ever notice how the behaviour of your company changes towards you once you put your papers?
The so called exit interviews get cancelled again and again on last day,may be a way for the glorious HR folks to stall the employee or make his final hour in the company long.
Or you need to follow up over and over again to get your dues cleared/get the no objection/work experience certificate.
I salute all of you who seem to have realized that we are all taken on a roller coaster ride by these notorious companies and their HR's. It is very true that all the things are procedures and nothing concrete really takes place after the exit. We only hear a whole lot of crap from HR. That is all.
I totally agree with Shruti, jitendra. The author is trying to mislead everyone here. I think it is about time the employers treat all employees with some respect. I have seen notorious companies, even some reputed ones give talks / presentations about values etc which is all on paper and in my experience whole load of bull-shit. My colleagues & I (8 senior IT heads) working under a CIO in an Insurance company in Mumbai have been victims of unwarranted harassment at work on a day-to-day basis. Guess the reason? - CIO being insecure of his job (highly paid in US dollars and having ZERO knowledge of the 8 subjects). None of the entire IT group of 60 permanent employees (leave alone all the vendors) were happy at all. What action did the HR heads take? Negative. In spite of the several complaints that were lodged. What does my author friend have to say here? Please open up. Let’s face the reality. Several guys quit resulting in disruption of their careers, lives & families and most importantly health etc. Then what? Give sweet talks to the HR in exit interviews? What for? Cover whom? Company? HR? or the Monster? If the companies don’t care about employees, what for do we care in return? Let me warn the HR – the scenario in India is now changing. Employer’s regime of running a background check on employees is over. Now the employees have begun to run background checks on the employers and turn down/r
Unless u r very important in the company and they are reluctantly relieving you, then only u should suggest some system changes if necessary and useful suggestions. Otherwise u should just say O.K. since it is just a formality. However in one of my friend's exit interview the management has taken serious view and forced his boss to act immediately or resign. My friend got the necessary facilities but he was a cool target of his boss. Hence once u decide to quit just quit.
