Choosing the right outplacement services provider
The HR Director for this global logistics business connected with us on LinkedIn knowing they were going to need outplacement support in the months ahead. They hadn’t engaged an outplacement provider before but knew they wanted to provide their team with as much support as possible.
Their redundancies were of a significant scale and many of whom were impacted were long serving colleagues who hadn’t had to look for work in a long time. As additional challenge in this situation were many of people in entry level roles didn’t have access to relevant technology at home in order to effectively prepare their CV and look for work.
Flexible outplacement solutions incorporating individual and group outplacement support
We spent some time discussing the complexities of the restructure and we put together a number of options including one-to-one support and group workshops.
The HR Director wanted a flexible approach as the exact numbers of individuals impacted was fluid. We agreed a series of face-to-face workshops with the opportunity to flex the dates with the necessary notice. The workshops proved to be popular with high attendance and plenty of engagement. We complemented the workshops with one-to-one support for CV writing and coaching as well as providing a suite of additional templates and resources..
Key benefits of outplacement workshops and individual support
- The group workshops allowed people to come together, to support each other and talk about how the change had impacted them – we helped them understand and explain their emotions and normalise what they were going through.
- We opened up space for free thinking – one individual went away full of ideas on how they would run their own business.
- The complementary one to one support helped one individual in particular to secure a role which played a fundamental part in supporting his positive mental health.
Outplacement solutions that make a tangible difference
The outplacement support programme was a fundamental part of this restructuring programme. As the programme finished the HR Director reflected:
“Our Company was in the unfortunate position where, due to some restructuring we needed to also make some redundancies.
June was extremely responsive to my needs, tailoring a programmed just right for our business – being patient with me with my changing needs and always coming up with proposal that would work for us.
The feedback I received from the people who attended the face to face workshop was excellent, with many commenting that she had brought a different dimension and forced them (in the nicest way!) to look at what they could do differently and to provide them with not only practical tools to support them in their future career goals, but also the mental fortitude needed to achieve these goals.
I would definitely recommend June and her colleagues as they provide the right level of support when a business is going through any restructuring programme”.