Quick Summary Career coaching for employees helps re-engage stuck talent by creating clarity, direction and ownership, reducing disengagement and turnover risk. Organisations use career coaching to improve retention, internal mobility and succession planning,...
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What Is Executive Outplacement? A Guide for Employers and Senior Leaders
What is Executive Outplacement? Executive outplacement is a specialised form of outplacement designed to support senior leaders who are leaving an organisation through redundancy or negotiated exit. For employers, executive outplacement helps manage...
Why Outplacement Services in the UK Must Evolve in a Tougher Labour Market
Quick Summary A tougher labour market: With vacancies falling and competition for roles rising in 2025, displaced employees face longer, more complex job searches than in recent years. Outplacement under pressure: Traditional, light-touch outplacement models no...
Why Career Progression Coaching Matters in a Cooling Job Market
A Labour Market Losing Momentum This year’s Autumn Budget confirmed a shift many HR leaders have already been sensing: the UK labour market isn’t in crisis, but it is slowing. Hiring pipelines have cooled, progression opportunities are narrowing, and movement...
Volume Outplacement: How Organisations Can Scale Support Without Sacrificing Quality
2025 has been the year of significant change for many organisations across the UK. Company insolvencies rose 6% in January, and 3.8 per 1,000 employees were made redundant between January and March – a sign of an evolving landscape. Although this surge in...
3 Reasons to Outsource Your Exit Interviews
Quick Summary Outsourcing exit interviews uncovers the real reasons employees leave by providing a safe, independent space for honest feedback, free from the influence of line managers or internal bias. Independent interviewers ensure unbiased, confidential...
What’s love got to do with it?
If there's one factor in the Chiumento employee retention model that raises eyebrows it's Love. On the surface that might sound a bit "soft and fluffy" but in reality, it's often the glue that holds individuals and organisations together. Work isn't just about the...
Are Exit interviews the Secret to Improving Your Retention?
If the number of ‘I’ve got a new job' announcements I’m seeing on LinkedIn are anything to go by. Then the much-anticipated great resignation wave is real, and it is well and truly underway. But I wonder, how many of those recent leavers were given an exit interview,...
3 things you need to do now to improve retention
Retention is the hot topic at the moment, the great resignation wave is underway and understandably organisations are trying their best to hold on to their employees. However, with retention, there is no true quick fix. Yes, you could double everyone’s salaries, but...
3 Reasons Why You Should Offer Outplacement to Departing Staff
Offering outplacement to those staff impacted by redundancy isn’t just the right or nice thing to do, it also has many benefits for the organisation as a whole. While there are many more reasons than the three we mention below, these are what we consider our top...