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ImaginativeHR Outplacement Solutions
One-to-one and virtual career coaching, career transition resources and vocational e-learning
Imaginativehr outplacement solutions:
ImaginativeHR is a trusted transition-support partner which assists individuals to successfully navigate through to the next stages of their careers, into their next role or opportunity; delivering impactful outplacement solutions and routinely ‘going the extra mile’ to support transitioning individuals at all levels in our care, (ranging from C-level to junior colleagues); whilst protecting our clients’ reputations as caring employers.
Delivered by a seasoned UK and international career coaching team; we offer a flexible range of group, online, virtual, one-to-one, senior and international career coaching programmes to assure successful career transition and provide reassurance to staff navigating periods of personal vulnerability.
Most of our clients engage ImaginativeHR to provide one-to-one career coaching programmes, though, where smaller support budgets limit support to group and / or online programmes, we always commit to establishing human telephone-based contact and providing personal reassurance, beyond programme limits.
Our comprehensive outplacement solution range, (flexibly covering broad per-person and group budgets), includes the following programme formats:
One-to-one career coaching support at our core:
Each individual ImaginativeHR programme, regardless of duration, is led by a lead career coach; entirely flexible to the needs and circumstances of each individual, so no two individual programmes look the same.
Notwithstanding individual customisation; ImaginativeHR’s one-to-one career coaching programmes broadly focus on:
a) exploring the options available to individuals,
b) pursuing a well-executed return to the market, whilst
c) developing resilience and confidence between roles; including e.g.:
- further exploring personal career progression instincts and passions, including access to targeted assessments; whether the individual is seeking a new role or embarking on a change in career direction, self-employment, business start-up, retirement, study, sabbatical, etc.
- developing a comprehensive ‘candidate marketing’ roadmap, including optimising CV(s) and LinkedIn review
- comprehensive interview preparation and as-needed psychometrics practice; particularly focused on
- articulating key USPs relevant to alternative targets – so these ‘trip authentically’ and confidently off the individual’s tongue
- articulating reasons for past career moves – again; so these ‘trip authentically’ off the tongue.
- target-contact research at targeted organisations, specialist recruiters and interim providers where these are relevant to an individual’s search
- access to vocational learning, (subject to clear career enhancement benefits for the individual, on programmes from 4 one-to-one sessions and above)
- on-boarding coaching into the new role / assignment, including 1st 90 / 100 day pitch practice, (subject to programme scope)
Our one-to-one programmes are flexibly managed, so programmes can be paused at any point, subject to individual circumstances.
Access to vocational learning during career transition:
ImaginativeHR programmes (from 4 one-to-one sessions and above) include individual access to vocational learning, (covering the full annual cost of access to LinkedIn Learning or Skillsoft vocational learning platforms; alternatively subsidised access to a multitude of alternative vocational training programmes, subject to personal preferences); this discretionary vocational learning intended to run in parallel with core career coaching support.
Vocational learning is specifically intended to support personal vocational development and continued professional development (CPD) plans.
Fully personalised online / virtual career transition portal:
Our combined online / virtual personal career resources include:
A. access to ImaginativeHR’s online programme, personalised to individual circumstances (Personal log-in details to personalised portal, comprising user name & password, emailed to personal email addresses). See further details in Sub-section A below.
B. access to ImaginativeHR’s demand-driven virtual group coaching and networking events (Individual choice regarding participation in a broad range of virtual transition events). See further details in Sub-section B below.
Online / virtual career transition support is most often provided for up to 12 months, allowing individuals in transition to stop / start their programmes as needed to fit around other commitments and plans.
Once Individuals have secured their next role or successfully changed direction, they may find that the additional career development e-learning modules will assist them in their broader career development and / or during the ‘on-boarding’ period into new roles.
A. ImaginativeHR personalised 24/7 online working space and personal dashboard:
Our private, easily-navigated, online working space and personal dashboard is accessible 24/7 via a secure individual user account, (accessible here via all devices and browsers).
Our portal enables individuals to explore their career options, research organisations and sectors of interest, explore the ‘hidden’ employment market, locate and connect with appropriate recruiters, refine their CV / covering letters / applications and set-up job search preferences and alerts.
Includes access to:
- Expert advice: professional best practice advice videos on a range of critical career topics
- E-learning: 700+ career development short tutorials (30 learning paths) in 5-10 minute bites
- Career pathway videos: hundreds of personal testimonies, covering 39 career paths
- Business skills training: 24 learning paths
- IT skills training: 8 learning paths
- Assessments and tests: 14 10-minute assessments, building self-awareness / confidence + 17 test aptitude assessments
- ‘Elevator pitch’ builder
- Mock interview simulation: building confidence, recording and reviewing interview responses
- CV and cover letter advice: providing comprehensive learning and interactive tools
- Global job search database: saving relevant job searches and alerts to latest vacancies
- LinkedIn networking tool
- Industry reports: covering 15 industries
B. ImaginativeHR interactive virtual group-coaching support / networking sessions:
In addition to our private online working space, we also encourage individual participation in our regular pulse surveys to identify areas of particular interest, which will inform regular highly-interactive demand-driven virtual group support events; including access to:
- scheduled needs-driven virtual ‘how to get the best out of your programme’ overviews
- regular scheduled needs-driven virtual bite-sized (45-90 minute) group coaching sessions covering a range of relevant targeted topics of interest, subject to community preferences, including, e.g.
- Making the most of your online career resources
- Developing your career strategy and ‘elevator pitch’
- Developing and leveraging your contacts and LinkedIn
- Your CV questions answered
- Face-to-face, panel and virtual interview preparation
- Developing personal confidence
- Developing mental resilience
- Embarking on a career change
- Embracing self-employment
- Interim and contracting
- Starting a business
- Volunteering
- scheduled peer-to-peer networking sessions
Our telephone helpline team actively monitors online programme uptake and virtual participation and checks in on participants telephonically to encourage their active participation.
Individuals tell us more about their personal transition priorities here.
We provide regular weekly updates to participants regarding upcoming events.
Further partnership commitments:
For larger volume projects, we set up no-cost branded HR and candidate portals; providing referral guidance and reporting for HR sponsors, together with a FAQs and Helpline access for impacted staff and survivors.
Outplacement offers:
- A £10,000 investment in our broader one-to-one outplacement solutions (providing access to a broad range of one-to-one support programme formats, from 2 sessions to 12 months in duration) for specific colleagues determined to have transition needs which will benefit from one-to-one career transition coaching support will generate 100 free 12-month Online outplacement programme accesses; the latter supporting those colleagues who will not benefit from one-to-one support.
- A £20,000 investment in our one-to-one services will generate 200 free 12-month Online outplacement programme accesses and so on.
- In addition, from a £10,000 investment and above; as a further value-add, we will also be pleased to provide 6-month access to a branded online personal career development portal for an unlimited number of ‘survivors’ of any specified restructuring process. (More about our online personal career development programme here.
