Outplacement/Executive Placement/Career Transition

Outplacement/Executive Placement/Career Transition | Big Fish Sp. z o.o.

Outplacement/Executive Placement/Career Transition

Our service is addressed to the organizations that, want to provide their procurement department employees covered by redundancy programs with support in efficient entry into the external labor market and overcoming stress caused by the loss of their current employment.

Importance of the project for the organization:

  • ensuring smooth and efficient functioning without interference from the dismissed person
  • reducing employee turnover during or after restructuring, increasing employee satisfaction after changes
  • reduction of the risk of absenteeism of employees in the last period of the contracts' validity
  • limiting the loss of the company's image
  • demonstrating the company's care for employees, which allows people not covered by this program to stay productive
  • supporting employer branding, i.e. creating the image of an attractive, responsible and honest employer

Importance of the project for employees:

  • getting used to the new situation and reducing stress
  • preparation for active job search - obtaining specific knowledge in the field of effective job search
  • identifying strengths and natural talents
  • development of professional application documents
  • starting the process of building your own professional brand
  • analysis of one's own professional path - often revising one's own career and guiding a new professional goal
  • encouraging further education and acquiring new competences tailored to the needs of the market

Our programs are aimed at groups (outplacement) or individual employees (Executive Placement / Career Transition).

Programs are determined individually with the client and may include the following stages:

  • career counseling (can be in the form of training covering such aspects as: effective job search, generating job offers from the so-called hidden labor market, cooperation with recruitment companies, building a professional brand in Social Media, effective recruitment interview)
  • one-on-one coaching sessions or individual face-to-face consultations (often assessed as the most effective outplacement activity)
  • psychological workshops
  • assessment of competences / strengths and weaknesses
  • establishing forward-looking professional development strategies
  • specialist training
  • assistance in the preparation of application documents
  • simulations of recruitment interviews and training in the field of effective communication - preparation for wage negotiations
  • assistance with active job search


Our approach:

  • We support building a sense of responsibility for the professional life of our clients - we are not looking for a job for our clients, but we show directions, discuss a strategy, and provide knowledge at every stage of the project. Our services include elements of coaching and mentoring
  • Once using our services, participants receive specific knowledge and support in managing their own career in the future
  • We are the only entity that deals comprehensively with the development of procurement staff - from evaluation, through recruitment to development. For over 15 years we have been observing the labor market in procurement both in Poland and in Europe. During outplacement projects, we share our knowledge and experience with participants.

Project example - Client - Global Procurement Manager

Service - Career Transitioning / Outplacement (reason: changing the structure of the organization)

Stages: 5 modules / 40h – on line meetings

Module I. "Goal & Plan"

Actions:

  • Joint analysis of the client's situation
  • Analyzing the current career path
  • Defining roles and alternative positions
  • Establishing a specific professional goal with the client
  • Establishing an action plan together with the client
  • Monitoring the implementation of the plan and supporting the client

Module II - Moving around the labor market

Actions:

  • Individual training in how to effectively navigate the labor market
  • Q&A
  • Job search plan

Module III - Application Support

Actions:

  • Feedback to the CV - proposing changes - creating a "Master CV"
  • Overview of the rules for creating a CV for a specific position (HRS Matrix)
  • Opinion on the CV version for a specific job description 
  • Opinion on the cover letter for a specific job description 
  • Overview of the principles of preparing a Project Portfolio
  • Project Portfolio opinion (4 projects)

Module IV - "Professional Brand"

Actions:

  • Overview of the basic elements of building your own brand in Social Media.
  • Feedback to the profile on LinkedIn 
  • Discussion of effective rules and best practices on social and business websites
  • Creating effective profiles on LinkedIn

Module V - "Interview Coach"

Actions:

  • Overview of the types of recruitment interviews
  • Discussion of the principles of effective communication during an interview - the STAR model
  • Overview of the tool supporting effective preparation for job interviews (HRS Matrix)
  • Simulation of 2 job interviews (1x simulation, 1x feedback)
  • Giving comprehensive feedback on the aspects to pay particular attention to during the interview

Tools used (forms, presentations, documents, tests)

SWOT ■ Strengths Finder ■ Talent Mapping ■ Important aspects of professional career ■ Career analysis ■ Alternative position ■ Working time photography ■ Job finding strategy ■ Individual action plan ■ Motivational DNA ■ Professional change - risk management ■ How to effectively cooperate with headhunters ■ Responsibility description in CV ■ HRS Matrix ■ Occupational Profile ■ Project Portfolio Template ■ LM ■ "Key Skills research" ■ LinkedIn infinite possibilities ■ Content Management ■ Useful information for an interview ■ Interview Check list ■ Interview Brief