Career Transition Coaching
Helping companies maintain their positive culture by showing compassion for departing employees, and helping employees move on to work they love.
Customized career transition coaching tailored to the employees’ unique needs
Includes extensive career development exploration to understand the contribution they would like to make to the world through their work. Through exercises, counselling techniques and assessments, we will delve into their skills, strengths, interests, personality and values. Using these findings, we’ll explore other careers that could be a good fit and we will work together to create an action plan and job search strategy. Preparation of job search tools (eg resume, LinkedIn, interview skills, job search planning etc)
Ideal for: an employee who will benefit from career exploration to better leverage their skills and tap into their interests followed by job search and action planning support to help them make the transition.
$1600 (two months of outplacement support)
Add on monthly mentorship and support for $600/month for one to six months.
If you’d like to learn more about outplacement career coaching, or would like to arrange a call, you can email me: info@justgotredirected.com
Monthly mentorship
I recommend the mentoring support as an add-on, but it can also be used as a stand alone service. This mentoring support is designed to give the client ongoing job search support to help them stay motivated and have a connection with a career coach to be their cheerleader during their transition to a new job. Areas of discussion include: barriers to their success and ways to remove or work around them, work through specific applications for jobs, interview prep for specific jobs, job search and ways to continue to move their job search forward.
$600/month (covers three hours of mentoring per month,
Rationale for Providing Career Transition Support
Being laid off ranked 7th most stressful Life experience
Being laid off ranked as more stressful than divorce, a sudden and serious impairment of hearing or vision, or the death of a close friend
Increase in risk of suicide by 1.3 to 3 times
The psychological and financial pressure can be insurmountable for many people who have experienced job loss. Displace workers have twice the risk of developing depression, four times the risk of substance abuse, and six times the risk of committing violent acts including partner and child abuse.
On average, it takes two years to recover from a job loss
The psychological trauma of job loss can be deep and profound which slows down the employees’ ability to secure new work
The stress of a job loss can impair fetal development
There’s more than a legal reason to not terminate a pregnant employee
The odds of developing a new health condition rise by 83% in the first 15-18 months after a job loss
These odds are for healthy employees without pre-existing health conditions. . The most common conditions are stress-related conditions such as hypertension, heart disease and arthritis
** stats and content in this section from Sucher S.J., and Westner, M. M. “What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs” Dec 8, 2022. Featured in the Harvard Business Review