If you are a Right Management, Lee Hecht Harrison or other outplacement firm client, your program is ending and you are not working what are you going to do next?
If your outplacement program is ending and you haven’t landed yet what is your plan or strategy for continuing your search. These firms provide a good service and teach much of what you need to manage an effective search but if you have applied yourself and used everything they taught and have not found a job clearly the program did not work for you and you need a new approach; new ideas and techniques that they don’t or can’t teach.
I have researched everything they teach and there are a number of things taught by LHH that simply don’t work and some very effective techniques and strategies that they do not even try to teach. The reason is that what they teach is governed by the structure of their delivery. By that I mean that outplacement firms can’t teach advanced search methods that require extensive one on one support. The amount of personal support you receive is not determined by your individual need but rather by the contract they negotiated with your former employer. If your employer paid for three meetings with a consultant that is all you get regardless of what you really need. The consultants are trained on how to keep you from taking up to much of their time.
One good example of this is cold call networking. Not only does LHH not teach this very important skill but they actually tell you not to do it. I have taught many clients how to do this and they have found positions they would never have found just calling people they already knew. I can do this because I give as much one on one support as the client needs. You just don’t get this from outplacement.
If you are not working it is not because you are not trying or you are failing but rather you did not get the tools and support you need from outplacement. You should partner with a job search or career consultant who can reinforce everything you have been taught as well as provide education and experience working with job search methods and strategies you have not been taught.
If outplacement failed I will get your search on track by perfecting everything outplacement tried to teach you and helping you master everything they failed to teach.
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