INDIVIDUAL OUTPLACEMENT SUPPORT PACKAGES

EFFECTIVE PROGRAMMES TO FIND ANOTHER JOB OR EXPLORE SELF EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS

These are comprehensive packages of a pre-agreed number of hours of counselling, advice and support in weekly sessions of about one-and-a-half hours' duration to enable a positive career change. All approaches to the market are made direct by the individual under Role Management guidance. Some people want to give a really good kickstart to their job search campaign and, for those who wish this, initial sessions can be for half a day or longer to ensure an early launch onto the job market. We can see people all over the UK at their nearest Regus office facility (see www.regus.com to find the nearest location). Trial sessions can be arranged so that prospective clients can assess the effectiveness of our methods.

Having been successful Recruitment Consultants in the UK, Role Management are ideally placed to give expert and relevant advice on what employers actually respond to in the UK job market.

• NB We do not, as most of our competitors do, employ trainers who may only communicate a theoretical approach to CV construction and job search, usually based on common practice in the USA job market.

Our objective is to help our clients obtain the maximum number of job offers - all open at the same time, to maximise choice. Your consultant will previously have had several years of experience on the hardest challenge of all - actually convincing employers to offer jobs to their candidates in the UK. In developing a CV our consultant will build it paragraph by paragraph, drawing achievements from the client, while sitting alongside them. See bottom of this page for examples of some real achievements we helped one of our clients develop for his CV. Beware of firms who leave the client to do all the work themselves based on a couple of model CVs.

CV development is just one example of the Role Management method which uses a different, imaginative and logical approach to job search support based on what we know actually happens in the UK job market. Our clients often comment on our approach - which is only really common sense - but at a much deeper level.

All our individual support programmes includes the following features:

• initial assessment and psychometric profiling to determine the most appropriate career path and to identify inhibitors to success being carried by the individual; looking at self employment options
• sensitive counselling to deal with any negative emotional aspects which may frustrate meeting the career objective; provision of support on stress management and personal issues and how to manage different types of bosses!
• the development of an effective CV appropriate both to the market and the individual; the Role Management CV format is a very effective selling tool (see positive comments Clients have had about their CVs from the job market - Home Page)
• identification of the likely market area, methods for researching it and advice on the careful use of recruitment consultancies and agencies (some can set back your job search)
• advice on the timing and phasing of direct approaches to the market by the individual in relation to their perceived readiness to undergo interviews
• telephone support between sessions - and for life after you have found a job
• the development of an effective and positive interview technique combining live recruitment experience with counselling skills
• support and advice on prospective employers with whom interviews have been arranged (by the individual) and coaching in appropriate techniques
• debriefing on interviews completed and drawing out lessons learned from those experiences; advice on following up interviews
• advice on the negotiation of the most favourable salary and benefits package (most people we support manage to obtain a 10% to 20% increase in salary).

JOB SEARCH WORKSHOPS

These can be presented anywhere in the UK and run for one day; usually followed by a day or more on individual CV development sessions. Workshops are ideal for groups of four to ten people. Participants have a real chance to engage in practical exercises and end the workshop with a completed CV, a personal action timetable and a Job Search Handbook for future guidance. Topics covered in our workshops are as follows:

• the effects of job change on people; benefits and opportunities; looking at worst fears and how to tackle them; making money go further; the power of persistence; asking for what you want; maintaining the job search goal
• 3 ways to finding employment: word of mouth contacts, press adverts (how to respond to them to get interviews), writing to employers, covering letters for CVs
• looking at forms of self employment; how to get work; exploring options; using what you have to earn an income; making money go further while unemployed
• development of an effective, interview-getting CV: importance of structure, honesty, job descriptions and employment history, how to develop achievements
• where to find the next job, methods for uncovering unadvertised jobs and advice on the use of recruitment agencies.
• getting the timing right for job search activity; resisting assumptions that no one wants you; persistence in writing to employers; keeping up the activity levels
• preparing for interviews: addressing fears about interviews; how to talk about previous work; body language and eye contact; interviews with more than one person; handling job skill, psychometric and other tests; following up interviews
• the value of progress chasing; asking for leads into other work
• what if you get stuck: can't get interviews, very short interviews, lots of interviews but no job offers, etc
• how to negotiate for the best income package
• job offers; selecting the best job offer; making your job search plan happen.

Role Management have already run over 500 of these workshops for various organisations.

ACHIEVEMENTS in CVs

We helped a client, who had previously worked as a Transport Manager for 3 years in the UK Retail Sector, to develop the following achievements for his CV; subsequently, this CV obtained interviews (and invariably job offers) from most of the potential employers it was submitted to.

• initially reduced number of agency drivers per day from 20 to 10 thus saving £187,000 a year; reduced agency drivers further, to 5 per day by fine tuning the system, saving a further £94,000 pa (total year on year saving of £281,000 per annum)
• eliminated cost of hiring additional tractor units by £182,000 per annum by reducing needs through more accurate scheduling (reduced from 10 units to zero)
• instigated computerisation of all factors affecting creation of transport schedules; this immediately saved £34,000 per annum (via reduced clerical headcount)
• produced run time/route cards for drivers which gave breakdown of each store delivery (route, departure & driving times, arrival & unloading time at stores); drivers no longer got lost, stores were no longer kept waiting and driver morale was increased
• reduced between-run waiting time for drivers from 240 hours weekly to 40 hours by negotiating delivery times with stores thus allowing a better schedule to be put into operation
• instigated risk assessments & introduced Banksman training at the higher risk stores (store staff were trained to direct 40ft trailers into position, hold up traffic, etc.) to avoid accidents
• instigated trial of satellite tracking to monitor movements and eliminate timesheet completion, etc. (potential savings of £300,000); GPS devices also capable of text communication.

 
Role Management International Ltd., P O Box 5777, Milton Keynes MK5 8WU
Telephone: 08707 669 588
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