Employee Offboarding Matters: 3 Reasons Why HR Should Give Exiting Employees the Red Carpet Treatment   November 2, 2021 Pre-Recorded Session Offboarding is an often-overlooked area of the employee lifecycle that is becoming increasingly more important as the workforce changes. According to Aberdeen and other HR researchers, employee offboarding has always been a lagging focus for HR Executives with less than 30% of organizations having a formal offboarding process at all. Nowadays, poor offboarding practices impact the bottom line, tarnish reputations, and directly influence future talent acquisition. The good news, however, is organizations are starting to see this impact, causing them to start focusing on improving the entire employee experience from interviewing to exiting the organization, according to SHRM and Deloitte. Here are three reasons to give employees the red carpet treatment when they make an exit from your organization.  The Boomerang Effect: More Than Ever, People Are Returning to Previous Employers. Alumni Networks and Talent Acquisition.  Protecting Your Employer Brand. By giving employees the red carpet treatment during their exit, they will be better brand ambassadors, better spokespeople, and allies, telling their talented colleagues about your organization and possibly even working for you again.    Obje ctives Learn how to properly offboard employees, giving them the ‘red carpet treatment and understand how offboarding impacts your bottom line and talent acquisition strategies  Understand how to develop alumni networks to engage your alumni employees in being brand ambassadors   Learn the benefits of hiring boomerang employees who already understand your company culture and industry    Raymond Lee is the Founder and CEO of Careerminds, a contemporary outplacement company launched in 2008. He has over 20 years of human resource, outplacement, and career consulting experience. He’s also a certified retirement coach. Raymond pioneered the concept of virtual outplacement after experiencing years of traditional outplacement in a variety of HR roles. He has his bachelor’s in psychology and holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Louisiana Tech University. He sits on the Careerminds Board of Director’s and is an active speaker through the SHRM’s speakers bureau. He recently published a book through SHRM publishing titled, Clocking Out, A Stress Free Guide to Career Transitions. Raymond’s been featured on SiriusXM Business Radio, CareerTalk, and the Wall Street Journal.