Blog: Career Transition

  • The Post Covid Career Change

    With post-Covid life emerging for many of us, we’re seeing a lot on social media about people of all ages contemplating career and job changes (including the ‘supposed’ Great Resignation). Some are claiming that Working from Home (WFH) for prolonged periods has led to a new awakening for many of us in respect to our work lives and how we want to work into the future. …

  • How to support your employees after a company restructure

    Studies have shown that downsizing can negatively impact employees who remain with the company. Decreasing the workforce by just 1% has been found to increase turnover by up to 31% in the following year1. Following downsizing, employees who retain their position will often experience significant declines in job satisfaction, organisational commitment and job performance. As redundancies happen around them, they will evaluate the performance of leaders …

  • Why invest in outplacement services?

    When you hold a leadership role in any business, there is a strong likelihood you will be faced with managing an organisational restructure. While this change can be difficult to deal with on an emotional level, there’s also the challenge of deciding which roles must be made redundant. As your choices could potentially impact loyal and dedicated employees, you need to ensure there are proper processes …

  • How to proactively access the hidden job market

    We have been speaking to our Outplacement clients recently about their concerns that there are relatively few jobs being advertised. However, despite the apparent drought, there are always jobs out there and we have clients moving into new roles every week. This is because many of these people are accessing new opportunities through the hidden job market, but even more importantly they are taking a ‘proactive …

  • As leaders of a business – big or small – we need to focus on the well-being of our people, while ensuring that we’re making the ‘tough decisions’. Of course, well-being is important – but not just for our people, but also for the leaders who are making the tough decisions. We have seen over the years as Career Transition Management and Outplacement Consultants, when it …

  • Tips For Maintaining Your Motivation While Job Hunting

    Given the current state of the job market, it can sometimes take a bit longer than usual to land your next opportunity. While searching for a job, you could be rejected multiple times and may not even hear back from an application at all. Here are some tips to maintain your motivation during the process of finding a new job. Keep moving Aim to do something …

  • Traditional Work Life Is No More – Adopting A Portfolio Of Jobs

      With the advent of the internet and rapid advances in technology, the traditional workflow in organisations are changing. This, combined with the constant fluctuation of market conditions worldwide, leaves no doubt that the working environment for job seekers is changing too. In years gone by it was not uncommon for workers to be with the one company for their whole working life. It then became …

  • Beyond the Lunch Table

    How we helped an organisation transition workers from full time work, into retirement More often than not when we talk about retirement the conversation quickly turns to finances. “How much do I need to retire?” or “Have I got enough in my Super fund?” There’s a wealth of information and a host of opinions on when and how to retire with financial security. However what most …

  • Retirement – it sucks…..or does it?

    Why bother retiring?  You lose your pay packet, your identity, your work relations, and for most, your main purpose in life.  Retirement seems like the next step to death, and that’s not cool. For me, approaching retirement, I had all these thoughts and feelings. So with that in mind, I fronted up to see my Retirement Coach. I was hesitant and yet curious to know if …

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