The exit interview is evolving, not very drastically, it is still, at its core, a structured conversation about why someone left, but the context around it has shifted enough in the last two years that organisations running the same process...
Exit interviews sit in an unusual position in the HR calendar. They are, on paper, a routine part of offboarding. In practice, they are one of the most consequential conversations an HR professional can have, one that determines whether a...
Culture is one of the most carefully managed narratives in any organisation. Values are articulated, behaviours are modelled from the top, and employer brand communications describe workplaces that are inclusive, growth-oriented, and psychologically safe. Exit interviews are where that narrative...
Exit interview data has a shelf life problem. It gets collected, summarised, and filed, and by the time someone looks at it again, three more people have left for the same reasons the last batch of departures flagged six months...
Why Exit Interviews Are the Most Underutilised Intelligence Asset in Indian Organisations There is a moment, usually a Friday afternoon, when an employee walks into an HR cabin, signs a few documents, returns a laptop, and answers three polite questions about...
When researchers ask employees whether they were fully honest in their exit interview, a consistent pattern emerges: most weren't. Not because they intended to mislead, but because the conditions of the conversation made full honesty feel unnecessary, risky, or simply...
Picture this: a product team is three sprints behind. The engineering lead flags it in the weekly standup; they've been a senior developer short for four months. HR is on it, has been on it, but the role keeps falling...
There is a persistent tendency in talent acquisition to treat executive search and permanent recruitment as points on the same spectrum, variations of the same activity, differing mainly in seniority level. This framing is understandable, but it obscures a more...
Did you know? Most hiring decisions are made in the first ten minutes of an interview. The next two rounds primarily serve to confirm what someone already believes. That's not cynicism, it's how human judgment works under time pressure. And...
When companies ask about recruitment agencies, they’re rarely asking out of curiosity. They’re asking because they’re weighing a cost decision. And unlike conversations about culture or long-term workforce planning, this one usually gets very specific and raises questions like what’s...