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Career Transition / Outplacement – Manufacturing Industry

 

Background

A global manufacturer of household products, with an aggressive growth strategy, acquired a leading organisation in the adhesives industry as part of their continued expansion into target markets.

A direct outcome of this acquisition was the decision to reorganise activities at various sites across the UK; this involved an amalgamation of the newly acquired organisation’s departments and functions with the existing organisational functions.

HDA was commissioned to support those directly affected by the restructuring, via the provision of outplacement, career consultancy and retirement support.

HDA Project

During times of organisational change, redundancies are often inevitable and this particular reorganisation was no exception; 67 of 87 acquired employees were retained and 20 lost, including staff in customer services, purchasing, and logistics.  HDA were brought in to provide career transition support and guidance to the 20 affected employees.

The organisation chose to offer these employees the Versatile Support Programme; which is an extremely flexible menu-based programme.  The support included elements such as 1:1 consultancy with a dedicated career consultant, practice interviews, retirement advice and guidance, psychometric assessment, and access to HDA Online. HDA also facilitated a number of workshop sessions on topics such as: Networking; Self Employment; Job Search; Interview Preparation and Retirement.

The organisation was keen to maintain a positive, motivating culture and to support both those directly and indirectly affected by the redundancy – retaining key talent where possible.  HDA played a considerable role in facilitating this.  A Resourcing and Development manager at the organisation maintained that HDA’s support services, eased employees transition from leaving the company to getting a new job.  HDA also had a powerful effect on the employees that remained with the organisation "The survivors feel their previous colleagues are being looked after".

Outcomes

HDA’s involvement in the process enhanced the ease with which the restructuring took place.  One employee said “the ability to use the HDA outplacement service smoothed this process and while undoubtedly an emotional time…the takeover was one of the least frightening experienced”.

In addition, HDA’s flexible approach to meeting both organisational and individual client needs was a vital component in their ability to add value during the process. 

 

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