Outplacement Services
Staff changes can have direct impact on productivity, employee morale and corporate image. Outplacement services can achieve a positive outcome for all parties while reducing hard and soft costs.
Layoffs are difficult for both parties involved, the employer and the employee. But they can become easier with the Outplacement Services which offer many benefits to both sides, mainly contributing to the minimizing of different kinds of anxieties and fears in the workplace.
Our company provides services to both sides:
a) Corporations who choose to assist their ex-employees in their next career step, or
b) Individuals which have been laid-off, and wish to get professional help, or cases where their companies have been shut down due to the international market downsizing and economic crisis.
Our philosophy concerning our Outplacement Services is based on our strong belief that we are willing and able to provide to every outpaced employee or executive with the personalized attention and support needed.
Each and every one receives on-going consulting advice which helps them understand more effectively every aspect of their next career step and therefore job offer(s).
We act as career coaches answering related questions and giving them substantial technical support.
Our consultants can help Entrepreneurs and/or CEO’s and/or HR managers prepare and select the program they think is best suited for their company’s’ needs.
We provide them with all the skills required in order to proceed with a new job offer by:
1. Understanding candidates’ objectives, priorities, career aspirations and specifying alternative career paths.
2. Practicing interviews in 2 repeated sessions, improving also self marketing of each candidate.
3. Removing any visible psychological barriers or adding new business prospects including establishing their own business.
4. Analyzing their competencies and accomplishments, using psychometric assessment tools which consist of tailor-made questionnaires and tests. We also deal with cases where we find lack of morale.
5. Specifying target companies, networking contacts, sources of posted jobs.
6. Providing 4 months of personalized one-on-one time with a consultant
7. Helping to create a professional resume since in most cases we all know that what is first read by a prospect employer is a piece of paper which is either eye catching or boring. There is a whole philosophy behind the creation of “eye catching” resumes which win the impressions first hand.
8. Providing written material containing job search how-to’s and examples that will act as supplemental tools to the personal consultations and also enable the candidate to maintain high motivation levels.
9. Distributing the resume electronically to a large database of Greek and foreign recruiters, providing also referrals to recruitment companies and their potential new employers.
10. Contacting recruiters interested in a job profile which is similar to the one of every out-placed candidate.
11. Helping negotiate employment offers.
12. Providing individuals or/and their ex-employers with answers to all questions related to the outplacement process during all phases.
13. Providing training on internet job hunting and effective job search techniques.
14. Providing unlimited number of career coaching and interview training sessions via phone or e-mail.
15. Finally, providing guidance help and advice to candidates in their new job posts, and assisting them find themselves in their new work tasks and operate at their most effective level.
Our consultants are Outplacement Specialists and HR Directors; our AIM is to provide insights effectively to ‘both sides of the fence’ as recruiters and as hiring managers.