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...
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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...
Internal Mobility: Retain Talent with Career Coaching
In a market where attracting new talent is costly and competitive, organisations that invest in internal mobility gain a powerful edge. By supporting employees to grow, shift, and develop through structured career coaching, companies reduce recruitment costs and...
Are Outplacement Services Worth It? A Modern Guide for Employers
Are outplacement services worth it? Discover how our app, JetStream, proves the answer is yes in our guide.
Toxic High Performers
Toxic high performers are individuals who deliver great results but by means that can completely undermine an organisation's culture. Over a decade ago, we developed the Chiumento Culture Matrix to help clients explore this concept and challenge their willingness to...
When employment relationships breakdown
When employment relationships breakdown it can be hugely stressful for all involved. What has Chiumento learned about the reasons employers and their people "fall out of love" with each other? Ian Gooden offers some opinions. Chiumento is probably best known as an...
5 Reasons Talent Mobility Should Be on Your HR Agenda
Talent mobility was high on the agenda at this year's Arbora Global Conference. Arbora Chairman, and Chiumento MD, Mike Burgneay shares his thoughts on why this should be high up your talent management agenda. 1. Organisations are facing rapid change All businesses...
Damaged Goods or Guardian Angel? Why Redeployment Goes Wrong
Over the past three years many organisations have been faced with the challenge of how to move people across organisations – frequently as the result of re-organisation and redundancy programmes. This is the reality of redeployment. At its simplest it means moving...