Keep Valued People In Your Orbit

In order to keep former employees in your orbits, leading firms have an alumni programs that:

• Keep track of former employees,
• Maintain up-to-date, password-protected directories of former employees to which alumni have access,
• Post job vacancies and recruiting information,
• Provide free access to the company’s latest research, and
• Host event that bring alumni with current employees.

Whether you have a formal alumni program or you use less formal links, staying in touch with former employees may lead to new business, create market intelligence, and occasional rehiring of good people. Doing this will also increase the company’s attractiveness for career-minded people who know that working for your company will allow them to access a larger network of people.

Surely, the way you and your company depart with employees will determine the future relationship. For a better relationship, you should congratulate the person and wish luck for her/his career, ask the HR department to wrap up the termination issues, demonstrate appreciation for the contributions, continue to communicate with the departing person and inform the person on employment opportunities of the company.