Workforce Restructuring Outplacement Services

Are you looking to undergo workforce restructuring projects? Our outplacement services can ensure your reputation remains intact. 

If the answer is yes, you need to consider outplacement services. Following a workforce restructuring event, outplacement services are provided at no cost to employees. An individual can receive a freshly written, targeted and optimised resume and social profile, personalised career coaching, and access to highly targeted job leads through these services. The Perfect Resume can help. We have helped thousands of people with resume optimisations, career coaching and more. If you would like to get in touch with us, send an email to info@theperfectresume.com.au.

Workforce restructuring is a process that involves the elimination of jobs from an organisation due to a business decision. This can be in response to changing market conditions, a decline in demand for its products or services, or other factors. When workforce restructuring occurs, it often requires employees to be laid off. We can help these candidates get back to work quickly, so they don't have to fall into the application for a job, get rejected, and lose hope in being reemployed cycle.

We have seen employees who have been redundant struggle with their self-worth and self-esteem after being laid off. It's prevalent that if someone has been out of work for a while, they start to feel hopeless. They don't know how long they can afford to be unemployed, and they will often get rejected for qualified jobs. When they look for someone to help, there isn't much quality help under $500, which is expensive for someone unemployed.

What is an outplacement service?

Job outplacement service, also known as career coaching, career counselling or career transition services, is helping people with job loss to find future employment. The employer pays the services, then a third party, such as The Perfect Resume, provides resources and personalised coaching to the employee at no cost, ensuring they can make a smooth transition from one position to another, especially when they have been let go from a job. Whatever the reason for redundancy outplacement services, whether it be downsizing, restructuring, company closure etc. Outplacement services serve as a foundation to help the employee reinterpret their life and find new meaning with the sudden, major change they face.

What do outplacement services offer?

An outplacement specialist can leverage their recruitment and HR expertise to help the candidate find relevant opportunities. They can provide coaching to support a candidate interpret what has happened and give them the tools needed to chart out a new future trajectory with confidence, compassion, and certainty, especially when significant events destabilise their sense of self.

What is outplacement support when it comes to The Perfect Resume's outplacement services and how are they beneficial to help your employees:

• Recover their career after a layoff or restructuring
• Get the best job leads in the market with our resume and coaching services
• Take control in a period where they would typically have no control over their professional life
• Learn successful job searching strategies so they can reduce the number of applications they apply for
• Eliminate self-sabotaging emotions with 1:1 coaching sessions with a career counsellor
• Have a professional resume writer craft a fresh resume and LinkedIn profile
• Know exactly how they can take their career to the next step

The Perfect Resume's executive outplacement services are catered to remove the frustrations that occur after a redundancy by giving people hope and optimising their resume, cover letter and LinkedIn profile with tips that will get their career on the right track again.

The first step we take with employees who have been made redundant is to prepare them mentally and physically for the job hunt. We will schedule a 1:1 career counselling session to discuss their concerns with a career counsellor, know which jobs they will target and begin to shape their job search strategy. We will then dive into optimising their resume and tailoring it to the jobs they want to apply for. Lastly, we will give them interview-ready tips and guide them through a mock interview with a career coach.

Our interview preparation sessions may seem like overkill; however, when you're down on your luck in the career space after redundancy, we know confidence can take a hit. With confident and informative answers, every interviewer will have a halo effect that almost guarantees the candidate a job! Therefore, our interview preparation session will make all the difference.

Did you know, when an individual has a career break after a redundancy, the process of re-entering the workforce can be challenging? The longer they are away from their field and industry, the harder it becomes. When this happens, they tend to start applying for lower-paid positions for which they are overqualified. Due to looking overqualified on paper, they will be overlooked for the job. This never-ending cycle is all too common. We aim to avoid this cycle by building up new skills to help employees succeed in today's competitive job market, including knowing how to get past applicant tracking systems.

With a professional resume writer on their side, this transition doesn't need to be as daunting as it seems. Our expert writers know exactly what employers want and how to make sure their resume reflects this, helping individuals continue to strive towards their career goals and land more interviews than ever before.

Should I use outplacement services?

Here is a case study to help you decide  whether the outplacement services fees are worthwhile for your employees:

Sarah had just been laid off, and she was feeling rejected, lost and worried that her savings would run out before she secured a new role. Even though Sarah knew she needed to start looking for work, she didn't know where to start. Sarah had been fortunate enough to get the job she was made redundant from by knowing someone at the company who had invited her to come on board. After five years at the company, she had never envisioned working anywhere else. However, COVID had severely impacted the company's ability to go about their everyday business and consequently, many people were being laid off. Sarah didn't have a resume or even know what a selection criteria was or where to look for a job. She was clueless when it came to ensuring a resume had all the checks and balances in place to get through the robots (applicant tracking system). The little information she had from her university days was outdated and irrelevant in the current job market. For example, she thought she needed to highlight all her education, including her high school certificate, on her resume, but only relevant information was required to be included.

We helped Sarah get back on her feet with the help of our career outplacement services package. We made it easy for Sarah to focus on what she needed to do to get back to work. We provided her with everything she needed to land a great new job fast, including an updated resume, tailored cover letter, and a LinkedIn profile optimised for search engines such as Google. We also personalised her career coaching services to access highly targeted job leads in her local area.  

After 2-weeks went by, we checked in with Sarah to see how she was going. She had a new problem to handle! She had too many job opportunities that she needed to choose between them! At interviews, she received great feedback from the hiring managers, saying that her resume clearly showed her qualifications and talent. Of course, she didn't let them know that she had the expert help from The Perfect Resume team to ensure she put her best foot forward. She kept that little secret to herself and politely thanked them for their compliment!

We helped Sarah choose between the roles, including considering the distance from her home, employer benefits and company culture. We even helped Sarah to negotiate a higher salary than what she was on before.

Just two weeks earlier, Sarah looked at a bleak future with an unknown duration of financially tough times for herself and her family. Now, she was looking at a bright, fresh start with more money before.

We helped Sarah get back on her feet with our outplacement services and help other employees. If your staff need assistance, we can provide them with a freshly written, targeted, and optimised resume and LinkedIn social profile, deliver personalised career coaching and show them how to access job leads. We'll also give them tips on making themselves stand out in an interview so that hiring managers will be eager to bring them onboard their team! Let us help put an end to their uncertainty.

How much does an outplacement service cost?

Outplacement services are typically much less expensive than defending an unfair dismissal claim from a laid-off angry worker and cost between $500 to $10,000+ per employee, depending on the service provider and level of assistance. A good outplacement provider will help with resume writing, preparation for interviews and provide one-on-one coaching with a redundancy specialist. Personalised services that work 1:1 with the candidate will cost more than service providers who send employees on their way

If this sounds like something that could be beneficial for you, then please feel free to contact us at info@theperfectresume.com.au or head to our Outplacement Services Package page for more information.

We have an outplacement consultant who can offer services for individuals and executive level employees Australia wide, including in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.