Do you wish you knew why employees are choosing to leave your company or organization? Exit interviews are just the thing for that! They are good ways to discover what your organization was doing good and what it could improve at. When exit interviews are done correctly, they can help ending the employment on good terms for both parties.

A complimentary face-to-face or telephone approach after a written survey is also possible, it enables a deeper conversation and the possibility to ask more probing questions if not everything was clear in the survey. Also the employees will appreciate the gesture.

To use this sample Exit Interview, sign up for Survey Anyplace , and choose ‘Exit Interview’ as template when creating a new survey.

As can be seen in the above sample, the exit interview should at least contain the following elements:

• Clean, user-friendly design
• Question asking why employee chose to leave
• Question asking feedback you can use to improve your organization
• Question asking what the organization could have done better
• Formal goodbye

It is important that the exit interview answers can be collected efficiently and that they automatically transferred to a central database where supervisors and/or HR personnel can review the data. It can also be beneficial to both parties to do a follow up call with the respondent (leaving employee) to go into deeper detail on some questions.