Outplacement Services

Supporting those facing Career Transition

Redundancy situations can be stressful for all involved. Outplacement services enable organisations to focus their energies on business operations rather than divert the sometimes considerable time and energy needed to support leavers and the morale of the retained team.

Personal Career Management have provided outplacement services for a wide range of organisations including Travelex, Panasonic, the NHS, Oxford Brookes University and Local Education Authorities. Our services are tailored to the individual and organisation's requirements.

Individual outplacement support

Working with one of our highly experienced career coaches, our outplacement coaching programmes include the following:

Career review and analysis

• Assessing career capital, key skills, experience etc
• Undertaking psychometrics where appropriate
• Exploring career options and/or alternative ways of working
• Making informed decisions about next move
• Devising a practical career action plan for next job and beyond

Marketing your skills to Employers

• Locating where the "plum" jobs are - both advertised and unadvertised
• Creating CVs, covering letters, application forms etc which will be short-listed
• Rehearsing for interviews, presentations and networking, using video as appropriate
• Managing the recruitment agency/headhunter relationship
• Salary negotiation
• Settling into the new job

Or Self-employment

• Practical help in setting up own business
• Consultancy advice on business development

Specialist information resources

All of our outplacement clients are supplied with the following:

• Career File with comprehensive information on career self-assessment, decision-making and job search techniques
• Personalised daily updates of advertised vacancies drawn from a list of over 50,000 new vacancies per month.
• Detailed information on companies to provide comprehensive research data prior to an interview and to generate lists of suitable companies for a mailing campaign.
• Career matching software to with information on over 1800 potential career options
• Information on recruitment agencies and head-hunters
• Other useful resources such as salary surveys, professional associations

Job Search Workshops

These are practical in nature while being highly sensitive and supportive to participants who may be experiencing a range of emotions as a result of their redundancy.

The sessions are tailored to meet the particular needs of the staff group but typically include:

• Managing career transition
• Self-assessment of skills and experience
• How to find the job you are looking for
• CV preparation, covering letters, application forms
• Interviewing skills and practice
• Managing recruitment agencies and headhunters
• Networking
• Organising your job search

Career Clinics

These may be run as a stand-alone activity or as a follow-up to the group training session. Run on a day or half-day basis, individuals have a 1 hour appointment with a career coach where they can focus on the area of most need to them e.g. interview skills or c.v.

How do I find out more?

Contact Corinne Mills on 01753 888 995 or click here and one of our team will be happy to ring you and discuss your requirements.