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If you are conducting employee exit interviews, the toolkit brings together practical HR templates covering preparation, questions, feedback, recording and follow-up.
Employee's details
| Name: | |
| Job title: | |
| Department: | |
| Manager: | |
| Start date: | |
| End date: | |
| Exit interviewer: |
Job description and duties
1. What did you like most about your job and why?
2. What did you like least about your job and why?
3. Do you feel that the job description given to you when you took the job on accurately describes the role?
4. Were your duties clearly described to you when you took on the role?
5. Have your duties changed since you took on the role? If so, how?
6. Does the current job description accurately describe the job?
7. Do you have any suggestions as to how the job could be improved?
If so, have you raised them in the past with [your manager]?
8. Did you feel valued in your role?
9. Did you feel that you had an acceptable workload or were you under- or overworked?
10. How would you describe the prospects for advancement/promotion?
Working conditions
11. How would you describe the physical working conditions in your department?
12. Do you have any suggestions as to how the department working conditions could be improved?
If so, have you
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If an employee is leaving, use this model form template in an exit interview to ask questions about their experience, and their reasons for leaving the organisation.
There is no legal requirement to conduct an exit interview, but they can provide you with some useful information about underlying issues within your organisation.
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Yes. This template has been designed for organisations of all sizes, including small businesses, charities and growing employers. It follows UK employment law best practice and can be adapted to suit your organisation.
Our templates are developed with UK employment legislation, Acas guidance and HR best practice in mind and are reviewed and updated as relevant requirements change. However, every employment situation is different, so the template should be adapted to the circumstances and checked against the employee's contract and your organisation's procedures before use.
Yes, we highlight the areas of the document that you need to update with your own details, and where you need to make decisions to suit your situation. This saves you time and ensures that you meet best practice.
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If you're looking for broader support, we also offer toolkits and library bundles that include the Exit interview questions form template, along with other HR templates and policies for fully managing your situation. These may be more cost-effective if you need deeper advice.
AI can produce a document quickly, but effective HR documentation needs to be more than well-written words. It needs to reflect relevant UK employment law, HR best practice, practical considerations and the circumstances in which it will be used. These resources have been professionally developed around that wider HR context, drawing on extensive practical experience, rather than simply generating a generic document from a prompt.
We liked being able to work through the sections in a logical order. The form was practical enough to use during the process rather than fill in afterwards from memory. It was easy to tailor without turning into a completely different document.
The prompts were specific enough to be useful without telling the user what answer to give. The completed record was much clearer than the notes we had been keeping previously.
How this content is developed and reviewed
The Exit interview questions form template is developed using a practical HR methodology that considers current UK employment legislation, ACAS guidance, CIPD good practice and the real-world HR process it supports. Templates and supporting information are regularly reviewed and updated, with additional reviews triggered by significant changes to legislation, guidance or established HR practice, helping ensure each document remains practical, relevant and suitable for UK employers.
Darryl Horn, Chartered HR Director
Darryl is a Chartered HR professional with over 25 years' experience in senior HR and employee relations roles.
He has extensive practical experience of managing exit interview HR processes and founded hrdocbox to provide businesses with practical, professionally developed HR resources grounded in UK employment law and best practice.
HRDocBox has been creating practical UK HR documents since 2009.
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