Career Transitions
Nothing is more challenging – or more important – than major career transitions. Career Directions is committed to helping its clients have the right talent in the right place at the right time. In some cases, that provides an important opportunity to develop a high potential professional into assuming a leadership position. Or to help an executive adapt to broader responsibilities through executive coaching.
Downsizing and Career Transitions
Very often, Career Directions is tapped to help talented professionals find new “right places” outside of the organization after a downsizing. Career Directions takes great pride in being a local firm with international reach that can support any type of transition these candidates might want through our outplacement programs. Our highly personalized approach to assisting these candidates helps them begin to see the transition as a potential opportunity to find a better job fit, to explore a new career, or begin planning with confidence for retirement. We combine our highly personalized service with world-class job-finding resources and databases that are accessible to our clients through our CPI partner firms membership. These programs are available for organizations to purchase for outplaced employees, or for individuals to purchase – whether they are undergoing a “forced” or elective career transition.
Consider All the Career Transitions
Don’t forget that the hiring or relocation of an executive often results in career needs for a partner or spouse. Career Directions has both the expertise and the connections to provide excellent partner/spouse relocation assistance.
As Michigan’s longest running outplacement services provider, Career Directions knows that reductions in force (RIF) not only affect the downsized candidates, but also necessitate career transitions for many of the RIF survivors. Whether it’s about getting accustomed to a larger workload, new leadership responsibilities, or “survivor guilt,” the survivors need help with the transition, too. Career Directions offers debriefings and workshops for re-solidifying relationships with surviving employees during and after the RIF, and to solicit buy-in on new approaches to getting work done.
To what extent might the dread of a RIF or the aftermath of a RIF have contributed to the 28% rise in workplace suicides in 2008 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)? It’s hard to know. Read what CPI career transitions expert Doug Hearn has to say on actions to consider with RIF survivors.
