Why Outplacement?
Not the most pleasant HR term, Outplacement is a process for companies who are releasing staff, due to redundancy, to provide professional career management support to move them to the next stage of their careers.
What are the benefits to you the Employer?
The most significant benefits are:
- By looking after your staff at this sensitive time, you should ensure that they leave on good terms, creating positive PR in the process
- Employees who are staying are likley to have much more respect for the organisation if they can see that positive support is being provided to their colleagues being released
- Future employees looking to join your organisation will have a much more postive view if they are aware that you have previously supported staff who were being released
- If the redundancy and outplacement process is well managed there is less likelihood of significant loss of productivity during the changes
How can we help?
By providing the outplacement facility for your staff, they will have the opportunity to move their careers forward with confidence and overcome the trauma of redundancy.
We have an excellent track record and enviable record of success. We will use our wealth of knowledge and experience in providing specialist redundancy support to organisations and individuals across a range of professions to provide you the best possible programme to suit your needs and budget.
Our approach is to put your employees at ease right from the start by showing empathy and building trust to make for a successful working relationship, resulting in a smoother transition.
How do we differ from other Career Management Consultancies?
Most importantly, unlike many other consultancies, all of our career coaches and consultants have worked at management or senior management level and experienced redundancy and changed careers as a result, so can empathise and support you from personal experience. We really believe this is key to helping your people move forward with their careers.
Depending on the situation, if you are releasing one person or just a small handful of people, we can take the hassle out of the arrangements for you by liaising direct with your people to customise a programme to suit their needs within the agreed budget you specify. This way you are providing a much needed facility for them but don't get bogged down in the admin. Please contact us to discuss the best option for your needs.
- We are highly flexible and are not constrained by set programmes that you have to buy into
- We specialise in tailor made solutions and can customise our range of Career Workshops and Career Developmement Programmes to meet your requirements and budget (see list below)
- We realise that redundancy is traumatic for many people, however, our focus is on encouraging people to think positively about change, seeing redundancy as an opportunity rather than the end of their career!
- Our successful Move Your Career 'One Step Beyond' Career Transition Workshops are especially designed for employees who may be looking at some form of career change or even self employment
- We can offer three different options for our Career Transition Workshops
- As a value added addition to an Outplacement programme to help those considering career change
- A stand alone value for money option to help employees who are facing redundancy consider their future career options
- As a proactive career management programme for employees who are looking at early retirement but are looking to do something different in their twilight years
To get the most from your budget, we can mix and match our range of Career Workshops, to be run on a group basis and individual Career Development Programmes, as shown below:
- Winning through Redundancy
- Successful CV’s and Self Marketing Letters
- Job Search Strategies and Job Applications
- Winning @ Interviews
- Self Marketing, Networking & Selling Yourself
- Skills & Competencies Assessment
- Career Planning & Options
- Career Values & Needs Assessment
- Self Employment & Portfolio Careers
- Business Start Up
- Image & Personal Branding
- Redundancy Counselling
What is the best time to start working with us?
If you do not have the in-house resource to help with all the legalities to ensure you comply with current employee law, SMP Solutions can begin working with your organisation at the outset of planning redundancies, to provide consultancy support. We have expert associates in this field, providing an invaluable one stop service.
Otherwise, we will start working with you once you have made your final decisions and wish to get wheels in motion to support your staff who are leaving.
Please contact us with your requirements to enable us to work with you to tailor a suitable programme for your business.