Outplacement seems like a good idea. It seems a modest and sensible thing that big corporations can do to help their displaced, downsized, rightsized, re-engineered and otherwise terminated employees to find alternate employment.
Unfortunately, as career coach and author Mark Hovind explains, that's not really what outplacement is about, and the statistics seem to back him up. I have to agree with Mark -- if I were faced with the prospect of an outplacement service, I might check it out, but I'd also reach out to a professional career coach!
I just read an article on venture beat about a new employment technology that matches a person's unqiue set of skills with open jobs. May want to read the article -
http://venturebeat.com/2008/05/13/realmatch-offers-a-fresh-take-on-job-sites
Posted by: Susan Kennedy | May 16, 2008 at 07:06 PM
Interesting article!
As with many situations, it's important that you think about all the players want out of the situation, how each player defines success, and who the "customer" is. If your soon-to-be-ex employer has offered you outplacement services, the company is the ultimate customer of the service provider, not you. The goals may be the same, but as the article points out, they may not. If you hire a career coach, you're the customer, and your success is the coach's success.
Definitely worth considering.
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Posted by: Resume Help | October 08, 2008 at 07:46 PM
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Posted by: C. Carteaux | October 23, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Interesting article on outplacement.
I'd like to outplace a few Bankers and their property developer buddies to the middle of Siberia.
Posted by: John | March 07, 2009 at 10:01 AM