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The Big Short: Outplacement Edition

How to Handle Outplacement and Redundancies

How do you say good-bye to key team members without leaving a bad taste whilst simultaneously protecting your hard earned company reputation and values?


Enter Blowleaf—we support your business with outplacement and career advice to any member of your team who have to face the reality of redundancy.


In 2005, eccentric hedge fund manager Michael Burry discovered that the United States housing market, based on high-risk loans, was extremely unstable and anticipated the market's collapse in 2007 based on the creation of a false booming economy. Why does this matter? Fast forward to 2020, the globe realises we have a pandemic on our hands and we watch history repeat itself to an extent. There is no fixed precedent on how to handle several matters that have come to play. As a whole, we have been left scrambling to find solutions to the issues that are increasingly coming up to the surface faster than we can take hold of—and we are only referring to employment issues right now. Don’t worry, we won’t get into the nitty gritty of it all.


Immediately, the government comes in and suggests an instant-fix: furlough. With loopholes and issues a-plenty—the UK starts to believe that this ‘band-aid’ of sorts will fix the catastrophic boo boo that COVID-19 has caused. While companies take on the advantages of this government aid, and employees are seemingly holding it together, there is no denying that most companies can not continue to carry the strain of a dramatically shrinking economy.


Organisations are now left with the ever difficult decisions to keep their businesses running as usual, whilst balancing the inevitable need to down-size to protect their bottom line. Enter outplacement—creating an exit plan to support your leavers with coaching, advice, support and confidence. 


It’s a small world, bridges can not be burned and with increasingly competitive markets it's better to say “until we meet again" rather than “goodbye”.


Imagine if you could help your leavers come to terms with employment termination, map out a journey to new & rewarding career opportunities, write compelling cv’s & portfolio’s, practice for the inevitable interviews and negotiate a new & exciting contract; all at an affordable cost?


 Contact www.blowleaf.co.uk to hear more.



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