When any employ decides to resign from his job. Employee gave a notice period according to the requirements of the company contract. In your last days with the company, corporation would probably arrange an exit interview with you. Exit interview is a part of company’s evaluation plan to assess the reason of employee’s departure. Such interview are conducted by Human Resource department of the organization. Major purpose to arrange such interview is to the sole purpose of an exit interview is to get the departing employee to disclose why she is leaving and divulge her experience with the company.
It takes a tremendous amount of money, resources and efforts in training and hiring of the employees. If it turned out in an unexpected way then it is the right of the company to know what went wrong. Data collected through exit interviews would help the management to resolve the issues faced by the human resource and to move the organization a further step towards improvement.
An employer can utilize this opportunity in fulfilling several purposes. For example if an employer is dissatisfied by his company and had enough of it then he can be honest about it. They can dish out their positive criticism, or bash any specific department or college for giving him a tough time, they can air their grievances. Similarly they can praise the working of the organization and colleagues if you have enjoyed good terms with them.
Generally what happens is that the data collected by Human Resource department is not properly processed and hence leaves no effect on the working of the organization as nothing matters as you leave. Moreover being honest in an interview could end up burning bridges, which is not a great career move. Moreover if you any legal issues are unresolved to be settled by the company than strategy of being honest can hamper the smooth transaction.
Honesty in an exit interview can deteriorate your entire image in front of your colleagues. Don’t take exit interview as a platform to enlist all your grumbles regarding the working of the company. Whining over slight issues in an exit interview wouldn't let you move any further. Instead it will spoil your image.although you don’t work there anymore but your repute can follow you everywhere you go particularly when you are working in a same industry. Moreover, if the reason of your resignation announced officially is different from what you spit out in an exit interview than it would create an image of a fabricator.for example if you said that you are quitting the job because you are changing the career path and lately it is revealed that you are still working as marketer and pursuing marketing job than it will spoil your entire image because your reputation follows you everywhere.
At the end it hardly matters what your opinion is about the company because you are no more a part of it.in addition most of the time HR department is not too active to process the acquired data to convey the true spirit of employee’s opinion and wouldn't change anything in the company’s environment.