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Types of outplacement: group or individual, online or traditional?
In principle, there are 2 types of outplacement:
- group outplacement for homogeneous groups of employees, e.g.: working in the same department or on similar positions; consists of group workshops on e.g.: navigating the job market, preparing professional application documents, interview preparation
- individual outplacement which consists of individual consultations in above mentioned areas
There is also a “mixed” version: after group workshops, employees would have access to individual consultations. There is a variety of options.
Hidden Job Market Y18W21
This week we’ve researched job ads for executives across Europe and have found gems like the following:
- Head Project Management – Finance Transformation @ Novartis
- Global Director Consumer Insights
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief People Officer
Here the full list:
Interview Mistake #87
Outplacement and employer branding
Many employers who face the challenge of personnel reduction ask themselves: what should I do to carry out the whole process with the least negative outcome?
According to a survey conducted by Reed Consulting:
- 78% of respondents claimed that outplacement can contribute to improving a company’s image
- 55% said that offering outplacement services can help a company to be perceived by their potential new employees as an attractive employer
Despite the will to help their employees, organizations which decide to provide outplacement services also want to:
Hidden Job Market Y18W20
This week we’ve researched job ads for executives across Europe and have found gems like the following:
- Retail Senior Marketing Manager – EALA @ Accenture
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Interim HR Director @ MLC Partners
- Head of Accounting & Controlling
Here the full list:
Interview Mistake #86
Outplacement: controlled redundancy
There are various reasons why organizations decide to make their employees redundant:
- change in business strategy and resulting reduction of positions that are no longer necessary
- closing a branch office / offices
- merger or acquisition
- restructuring
- employees’ underperformance
According to the “Right Management” report (Manpower Group), 81% of European organizations who took part in the research said that one of the many criteria of a decision to offer employees outplacement services was the will to help them find new professional opportunities. It might seem that the only situation when outplacement services are not offered is when employees are made redundant because of their underpeformance. However, sometimes even then support is offered, provided that the employee worked at the company for a long time.
Challenges for the Board and HR Department:
Hidden Job Market Y18W19
If you are rather actively looking, you want to access the so-called “hidden job market” – opportunities that:
- rarely see the “light of the Internet”
- are distributed by word of mouth
- are shared on intranets
- are handled by Executive Search firms
- are difficult to find; e.g.: You are a CEO in Germany with experience in Italy, Spain and Romania. You are open to relocating to these countries. Consequently, you look at job ads on LinkedIn for the locations: Italy, Spain, Romania. Switching sides: a company that you would love to work for posts an ad for GM that could be based in Hungary, Romania or Bulgaria. As LinkedIn job ads are expensive, they choose to publish the job ad for Hungary, mentioning in the text that it is also available for Romania and Bulgaria. In other words. You would miss that. Supply and demand do not meet.
Once a week we take the time and review websites that publish “real” job ads, and we make sure to find gems like the above that would otherwise go unnoticed. Below what we’ve found this week:
Interview Mistake #85
