If you are contemplating a job change, make sure you get the relieving letter as nearly 90 per cent of the companies express apprehension in giving the nod to the job without the relieving letter, according to ‘Impactful Exits,’ a survey conducted by staffing services company Teamlease Services.

However, it will be some time before relieving certificates become the sole deal breakers for the new employers due to skill deficiencies in the market.

It covered 800 employees in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune across industries and functions of sales, marketing, business development, operations, finance, admin/HR, systems (IT) and others. According to the survey, many firms still insist on face to face exit interviews, only four per cent surveyed in Bangalore conducted online exit interviews.

Some employees, 17 per cent in Mumbai, have observed a change in the behaviour from managers and peers towards them. Salary deduction is the norm for non-compliance and many companies take legal action too in cases of violation of integrity. And more than 50 per cent of the HR managers used the employee feedback as resource to make HR policies, it said.

“Employees are recognising that markets are a small place and an ungraceful exit will come back to haunt. Adherence to a professional and clean exit is increasingly being seen important by the work force today,” said Surabhi Mathur Gandhi, senior VP (IT Sourcing) of TeamLease Services.

Salary package is the key reason in Bangalore, where 99 per cent of employees took exit policy seriously, for quitting the job. However, a third of the employees said they would rejoin a firm if given an opportunity.

krishnamohan@mydigitalfc.com