Consulting - Practices - Transitions & Outplacement

Reed Consulting's Transitions Practice supports organisations going through significant change involving redundancies, by providing career management support to equip affected individuals for the next stage in their careers, whilst ensuring that the morale of retained staff remains as high as possible.

"Without guidance, people experiencing job loss can begin their job search, or reach a life decision too early, without sufficient preparation, and in a manner which may well undermine their best prospects. People all too often find themselves rushing into a new job that they ultimately regret taking."

Stuart Lindenfield, Head of Transition Practice

Key Services
Receiving impartial and professional support allows people experiencing job loss to assess their career and life prospects realistically. Our programme of support helps departing employees determine a whole range of appropriate career and life options that they may have not have even considered before, and then equips them to effectively target their chosen career avenues and ultimately enjoy highly fulfilling careers.

Our service provides departing employees with insights into their genuine motivators, talents and strengths, enabling them to consider a whole range of potentially suitable career options, including some that they may not have considered before. Crucially, it also enables them to target and obtain new positions more effectively and sooner than they might have done otherwise.

This is achieved through a bespoke combination of: 

• Individual Transition Support: Intensive one to one support from highly experienced career transition consultants equips individuals with the necessary skills and tools to approach the job market in a professional and proactive manner.
• Group Transition Support: Working in a group situation provides a fast-track development opportunity where individuals can learn from others facing similar challenges, whilst enhancing their own career management skills.
• Online Career Support: Extensive range of online tools that allows clients to enhance their career management skills, whilst providing access to powerful databases such as One Source business intelligence and e-gold recruitment.

Benefits to your organisation

• Morale, adaptability and productivity of retained staff remains higher
• Less likelihood of unwanted staff attrition
• Enhances your positioning as an 'employer of choice'
• Ex-employees more likely to talk favourably about your business
• Ex-employees more likely to return as employees should this be required
• Less likelihood of losing ex-employee business loyalty ('employee as customer'), and putting your businesses supply chain at risk by 'bad-mouthing' the organisational
• Less likelihood of unfair dismissal litigation
• Support for your HR team in the design, and development and management information relating to the project.

Additional Services
We also design and deliver tailored services to support leadership development and staff motivation and alignment including:

• Networking for Career Success
• Retirement Success
• Career Decision Support
• Thriving through organisational change.

"The most striking feature of Reed's Transition Service has been their adaptability. As our needs and thinking have shifted, they have been able to move with us and craft a service that meets our specific needs."

Pauline Moore, Head of HR, The Rent Service

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