Outplacement Support

Dealing with redundancy

For a variety of reasons, organisations sometimes have to make decisions that affect employees’ jobs. Perhaps your company, or department, is relocating to reduce costs. Employees may decide, for family or other reasons, to accept redundancy instead of making a relocation move. In the current economic climate, you may even be forced to make redundancies.

Whatever the reason, the best employers offer a package of support to help staff through what can be a very traumatic experience.

Profile Locations’ outplacement consultancy programmes can play a vital part. They support individuals by enabling them to deal with change by developing a fresh perspective, and to plan a future that fits their competences, skills, interests and values. In turn, they support business success by enhancing the organisation’s reputation for good practice, both internally and in the wider world, reinforcing the employer brand.

Our programmes are flexible and tailored to individual needs. They are delivered by experienced outplacement consultants with many years’ experience in a wide range of sectors, both nationally and internationally, in blue-chip companies, smaller specialist companies and not-for-profit organisations.

Services include:

• One-to-one advice during the consultation period. Having a consultant present for informal discussion is of great value to individual employees, and can give the HR department useful insights into how best to progress with support packages
• Individual needs analysis. An hour-long, one-to-one discussion to identify personal needs, aspirations, direction, etc. This can feed back into the development of a bespoke, individualised programme (workshop, more one-to-one sessions, coaching, distance support, and so on)
• Workshops on a variety of topics:
◦ Career development
◦ Entrepreneurial activities
◦ Consultancy services
◦ Third Age – retirement or new directions

Typically, career development workshops run for three days with up to ten people, or can be delivered in a flexible format one-to-one.

Please contact us for further details of our outplacement support services.

Outplacement case studies

When employees decide relocation is not for them

We helped a senior manager from an oil company to realise that he could turn the ‘bad news’, and his dread of looking for a new job, into positive change by networking with other employees who were being outplaced and working in a new and collaborative way. He went on to organise a series of lunchtime brainstorming sessions. As a result, five people, each with complementary skills and strengths, joined together to begin a new company, working together on large projects as self-employed consultants.

An engineer decided to take redundancy as an opportunity to change his life and to re-frame his career plan. We reviewed his skills and competencies to fit a different expertise within the same sector, developed a CV to support this ‘new look’, and developed a new (to him) approach to contacting his network, asking clearly for his desired role. Within two weeks, he had two interviews and started a job which suited his needs perfectly.