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Exit Interview Tactics in the Education Industry
Trouble retaining promising educational professionals can be detrimental to your entire organization. Here are some strategies for solving your employee retention problems. Having a learning environment that is founded on teacher stability is critical when forming...
5 Ways to Evaluate Your Exit Interviews in Retail
Retail’s very high turnover rate is no secret, but some companies only now seem to be realizing how much it’s costing them. Walmart, America’s largest employer, spends an estimated $1 billion annually just replacing the 60 percent of entry-level employees it loses in...
The Real Hidden Costs of Your Exit Interviews
What do exit interviews, and turnover in general, cost your organization? How do the hidden costs of an exit interview affect your turnover bottom line? Turnover itself is an enormous expense – one of the biggest in dozens upon dozens of industries, and often far more...
5 Key Retention Strategies for the Healthcare Industry
In the competitive and tumultuous healthcare industry, every strategy to retain your best employees helps. Hiring skilled healthcare talent is only half the battle – getting them to stay on your staff is just as important. High turnover is expensive; the average cost...
A No-Nonsense Guide to Automating Exit Interviews in 30 Days
Ready to automate your exit interview process? Follow these steps. Automating exit interviews is one of the best steps you can take to add efficiency and insight to your human resource management – and in more and more industries, it’s an absolute must to keep up with...
What to Expect from Employee Engagement Survey Vendors
The right vendors can turn your workforce into a well-oiled machine – just make sure you know what to ask of them. One thing’s certain: executives are beginning to understand the real value of employee engagement. In a 2010 Deloitte survey of executives, 71%...
Why Your Exit Interviews MUST Be Anonymous
If your exit interviews aren’t anonymous, you could be making your turnover problems even worse. Plenty of organizations hold exit interviews, in good faith, each time an employee leaves. Most organizations expect their HR departments to conduct these interviews. Most...
Reduce Turnover by Hiring the Right Person
Feedback and reference services can give you the edge you need to reduce turnover woes. Nearly all of our client organizations arrive at our doorstep because they hope to reduce turnover. Who can blame them? Common figures estimate the cost of replacing a high-value...
3 Misguided Reasons to Use Exit Interview Providers
HSD Metrics can help clients large and small reduce turnover through expertly managed exit interviews. But if your intentions in outsourcing exit interviews are misguided, you're unlikely to make the progress you expect. How do your motives align with those listed...
How to Outsource Exit Interviews: 4 Key Questions to Separate the Best from the Rest
Selecting an exit interview service provider can prove challenging, and maybe also somewhat intimidating – how do you prepare interview questions for interview experts? Just a handful of incisive questions, however, will quickly separate the wheat from the chaff. If...
