Category Archives: Redundancy & Outplacement

Six Figures – Professional Career Coaches

Career Lacking Direction? Looking for a Job or Career Change? Six Figures has experienced career coaches whose focus is on professionals and executives like yourself. A few of our coaches include; – Mary Grech has extensive experience in dealing with a diverse range of clientele. Her professional career has encompassed career counselling and coaching of [...]

Selection of Outplacement Services

Guest article written by Adrian Kelly of Outplacement Australia In most aspects of our lives we like to feel in control – to have some say over what happens to us, and to be able to participate in decisions regarding our lives. Never is this truer than when we are told our services are no [...]

Access to Capable Career Transition Consultant Viewed as Lynchpin to Effective Outplacement

Senior execs categorically reject commoditised programs In the strongest signal yet that senior executives are fed up with commoditised outplacement programs, the release of the 2010 Outplacement Industry Benchmark Report confirms that time-limited programs in which candidates are supplied with self-directed hard copy material are being rated as highly ineffective. “While senior executives are a [...]

Have you experienced an outplacement or career transition service? Complete our survey & win yourself some Grange!

If you are an executive or professional who has been through an outplacement program or career transition service provider in the last five years, we would welcome your feedback on how you found the experience. Our short survey will take only 5 minutes of your time to complete with the information being used to look [...]

Goodbye Excessive Payouts for Executives

An interesting article in the Australian Financial Review has stated that Executive’s payouts might soon be limited to just one years pay in a bid to stop multimillion dollar handouts to underperforming executives. According to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) between 1990 and 2005 top CEO pay had ballooned from a multiple of [...]

Recruitment, Redundancy and the Missing R – Respect!

Respect can never be underestimated as it is a value many of us hold dear; respect for our information, privacy, views, time, and so on. Yet one area that I increasingly hear about is a dearth of respect in and around both recruitment and redundancy. Respect as defined by Wikipedia: Respect is esteem for, or [...]

Talent Retention & Development Using Career Champions

Many employers are now wisely focused on investing their time and money in the training and development of staff. This does not always need to be an expensive and elaborate process, with often the best training and development coming through more informal means, be it mentors or career champions. Organizations, particularly those who have been [...]

Interview with Gillian Kelly, who shares the 3 ingredients of job search and career success…

This week we were delighted to interview Gillian Kelly, Personal Branding, Career Coaching and International Resume Writing Expert. In the interview Gillian shares some of the secrets to career and job search success, including her tips on who gets ahead in tough markets. Gillian says there are 3 ingredients of job and career success! 1) [...]

Recruiters Transitioning into Outplacement Consultants – Good or Bad Move?

There has been a recent push by recruitment agencies to transition their recruiters into outplacement consultants. I myself am not convinced that recruiters make the best outplacement consultants. Professional Outplacement Firms, be they large or small engage experienced Career Coaches, Org Psychologists, HR Professionals and the like to deliver first class outplacement support. These people [...]

Free Guide on ‘How to Select a Career Coach’

This Free 10 page Guide on ‘How to Select a Career Coach’ has been developed for Six Figures by Paul Stevens. Paul is the founder for Worklife Counselling in Sydney in 1979 following a 21 year career in Human Resources Management and The Worklife Network – a national and international affiliation of adult career specialists [...]