Maintain civility during the exit interview and ask for some candid feedback about yourself and specifics about why you were let go.

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Be helpful during the exit interview but keep responses simple and professional.

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Obama, who suggested the joint interview as Clinton prepared her exit from the State Department, lavished praise on his rival for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

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Tomlinson officially resigned from the credit union on November 24, 2008, Monday, and on that day he spoke with a number of people at the union and participated in an exit interview with an IT person.

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Lucovsky testified in court that, during his exit interview with Steven Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive threw a chair across his office, vowing to "bury" Schmidt.

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General manager Glen Grunwald said Kidd had indicated during his end-of-year exit interview that he would return for a second season with the team.

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Chancellor George Osborne did not rule out a British exit in an interview with Germany's Die Welt newspaper on Friday, saying he hoped the UK stayed in "but in order that we can remain... the EU must change".

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