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HDA Associates Limited
Trading as HDA
Registered Office address:
Avon Wharf
23 Bridge Street
Christchurch
BH23 1DY
Company registration no:
01981354
VAT Registration no:
220 2406 29
OUR SERVICES
HDA Talent Management
- Executive & Expatriate Outplacement
- General & Large Scale Outplacement & Redeployment
- Key Career Stage Reviews & Coaching
HDA has worked for many years as a career management solutions provider, supporting organisations to manage both large-scale and individual redundancy and redeployment situations, and specialist individual career development and transition needs, in the UK and internationally.
We have successfully settled thousands of people to date, in all sectors, and most industries, including hundreds of offshore placements, and have many long-term relationships in this area with large world class organisations, who expect us to be there for them to support those transitioning out of their organisations, and to help them to leverage organisational reputation and their employer brand during times of transition.
Via our very well established international partnerships via our CareerNet International network, we regularly support organisations with complex international redeployment and outplacement needs on all continents, fully project managed by HDA.
Our activity in this area includes career coaching, networking coaching, facilitation and training, assessment, research and online / onsite resources, and ranges across the following key areas:
- Redeployment and career change enablement
- Large-scale redundancy manager and ‘survivor’ support
- Large-scale outplacement programmes: group and individual
- Executive career reviews and outplacement programmes
- Expatriate career development and international outplacement programmes, and spousal relocation career support
- Early retirement programmes
Our Career Transition Workshops
HDA runs a range of highly effective career transition workshops and seminars which complement our one-to-one support. To see more on our full list of candidate workshops and to get a taster of HDA Online (A website developed specifically for individuals experiencing a career transition), please login onto our candidate site via this link, entering ‘guest’ and ‘guest’ into the username and password boxes.
HDA Survivor Support:
In order to ensure the success of organisational restructurings, HDA recommends providing support not only to those leaving the organisation but also those remaining with the organisation. Providing support in this way enhances staff morale and motivation, reduces the risk of developing survivor syndrome and ultimately promotes business continuity. To see more on HDA's capabilities in this area please click here.
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Career Transition Services - Outplacement and Redeployment
As recession continues to affect our economy, more and more organisations are being forced to reassess their staffing levels. How companies handle this change has a real impact on their workforce’s morale and on corporate image, (and the employer brand). Professional outplacement support provides managers and staff at all levels who are facing redundancy with the peace of mind that they will receive valuable practical career transition leverage into new employment, self-employment, career change and re-training, or into early retirement, together with dedicated emotional support during a difficult period; helping them to seamlessly move on to the next stage of their career.
A career transition / outplacement provider, such as HDA, can also help with effective internal redeployment and the introduction of internal career centres for staff at all levels, or staff at risk of redundancy, so that your organisation retains valuable skills and expertise, and reduces the costs of re-hiring. Using professional career transition / outplacement support to facilitate restructuring and redeployment will make it easier for everyone involved.
Increasingly, organisations are recognising the value of using professional career transition / outplacement support to help ease restructuring for both those moving on and those needing redeployment. Businesses realise that by offering outplacement and redeployment support they can help people through a career transition - helping them to accept the changes that restructuring brings. Moreover, providing outplacement support will help to protect the company’s image (employer brand) during restructuring, as the organisation will still be seen as caring about its employees, and thus be able to attract desirable future talent.
Outplacement helps with career transition
All organisations experience change at some point. It is how they handle the restructuring that matters. If your organisation is implementing a redundancy programme and wants to facilitate career transition support for its employees, then using an outplacement company, such as HDA, will be of value to the process and to the organisation’s reputation / employer brand.
As a caring employer you will want to help those facing redundancyto move on into new and rewarding careers. Whether this career transition means re-employment, self-employment, career change / re-skilling or early retirement, you will want your career transition /outplacement support to give the best possible career leverage to those affected by redundancy. By helping employees through career transition following redundancy, you can help to manage their careers as they move on, and preserve your organisation’s reputation / employer brand during and following this difficult phase.
Unfortunately redundancy doesn’t just affect those who are out-placed. Redundancy also has a dramatic affect on managers who have to implement the policy as well as those who survive the restructuring. You will want to make sure that managers leading the career transition and redundancy process have all the support they need. At the same time you will also want to support those indirectly affected by the redundancy programme to maintain morale.
Help with career transition leading to redeployment
Even though your business may be facing restructuring, your workforce is still most likely to be your organisation’s most powerful asset. Through redeployment you should be able to retain some of your skilled workforce. Redeployment will also mitigate the disruption and loss of morale that accompanies restructuring. However, you may feel that your organisation needs assistance, by using career transition / redeployment companies, such as HDA, to encourage and optimise the redeployment of valuable skills and expertise within the organisation. As well as helping to support morale through restructuring, redeployment enables you to retain valuable talent, and to reduce redundancies, and consequently, limit future re-hiring costs. The last thing your organisation will want to face is career transition and redundancy costs now, only to face subsequent external rehiring costs because you have not filled key roles internally.
A solution to your outplacement and redeployment requirements
Whether your organisation is facing large-scale redundancies or smaller-scale restructuring, HDA Associates can provide outplacement support during these difficult times. Our outplacement service will see your organisation through this challenging transition. From providing career transition advice following redundancy to supporting management and redundancy survivors, we provide the expertise your organisation needs to ensure restructuring success. We will also help you make the most of your existing workforce helping you to channel their career transition needs through the provision of comprehensive redeployment services.
Organisations both big and small face restructuring at some point. Supporting employees through career transition following redundancy or redeployment is something we at HDA Associates have been helping companies with for 30 years.