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The Exit Interview Workbook

What You're Really Leaving — Named Before You Go

The HR exit interview is for the organization. This one is for you.

This is for:

For the professional leaving a role who wants the honest accounting before they go — the real reasons, the real costs, and the commitments that prevent the next chapter from repeating this one.

You'll produce:your Your Exit Interview Agreement

The Name It First Experience

Most people leave roles without naming what they are leaving — the real reasons, the real costs, the things that follow them if unexamined. Your Exit Interview Agreement is the private document the organization never asks you to write. It names what this chapter gave you, what it took, what you tolerated, and the commitments you carry forward so the next role is chosen from clarity.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started?
  2. What are you most proud of from your time in this role?
  3. What unfinished business are you carrying out the door, and what do you want to do with it?

Research basis

Bridges on transition theory and incomplete endings / Savickas on career construction and narrative closure / Ibarra on working identity and role departure / Maslach and Leiter on burnout that travels between roles / Schein on career anchors discovered through difficulty

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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

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Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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