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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
General and Large-Scale Outplacement and Redeployment
Why we work in this area
HDA has worked in this area for 30 years, with significant success supporting organisations to manage both large-scale (multi-site/multi-country) and case-by-case redundancy situations.
We have successfully settled thousands of people to date, in all sectors, and most industries, including hundreds of offshore placements.
We 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 within (redeployment) or out (outplacement) of their organisation, from large multi-site and multi-country projects involving hundreds or event thousands of affected staff, to support for individuals requiring career transition assistance from time-to-time.
Our activities in this area include:
- General and Large Scale Outplacement, across the UK, including Group (Online / Workshop-based) and Individual programmes - with strong focus on the provision of comprehensive, high value career transition support to staff at all levels, (supporting affected staff into new roles, into portfolio careers, into self-employment and into re-skilling for new careers), within a strong project management and key account framework, with particular focus on individual and group progress reporting,
- Large scale Redundancy Manager and Survivor Support - providing single or multi-site project-based support to managers tasked with communicating messages of organisational change, and bad news; and support to staff directly and indirectly impacted by organisational change, redeployment and redundancy,
- International Outplacement Programmes - providing multi-country support to organisations managing international redundancy projects, fully project managed by HDA, and delivered by local experts, via our CareerNet International network,
- Redeployment Enablement Consultancy - providing a broad range of internal career leverage solutions to managers and staff to encourage and optimise the redeployment of valuable competencies, skills and knowledge within organisations, with a view to enhancing talent continuity, and reducing redundancy and any subsequent external rehiring costs.
Our competencies in this area
- HDA's team has significant experience managing large and complex multi-site outplacement and redeployment projects across the UK, and globally,
- HDA's team includes consultants with significant day-to-day experience in this area; providing fit-to-purpose leverage to people at all levels with complex needs on a one-to-one basis; including those seeking re-employment, self-employment, career change, portfolio careers, early retirement, and so on,
- HDA has a well developed complementary range of tools and knowledge resources to support career transition needs at all levels,
- HDA runs a broad selection of customizable workshops for managers, staff indirectly affected by organisational change, staff directly impacted by role redundancy and staff who are encouraged to re-deploy their skills within the organisation.
Our approach in this area
- HDA takes a strong partnership approach in delivering general and large-scale outplacement and redeployment projects to our corporate clients across the UK and internationally; including managing the communication of the process via a range of complementary online communication tools,
- HDA places significant emphasis on settlement and success metrics where we support staff exiting the organisation; regularly and pre-emptively reporting progress to corporate clients in a wide range of formats, including well advanced online reporting tools,
- HDA places significant emphasis on realizable gains and consequent return on investment (ROI) where we support internal staff redeployment,
- Recognising that we are supporting organisations, but dealing with individuals, all of our behaviours are aimed at providing organisations we deal with, with the information they need to justify their outplacement or redeployment spend and to inform future outplacement or redeployment decisions, whilst maintaining strict confidentiality around individual situations.
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.
Who we work with in this area
HDA has recently worked with organisations like Honda, Universal Music, Fidelity Investments, UPM Kymmene, Lambeth Building Society, Henkel, Virgin, Sony BMG, EMAP, Gallaher, NHS, St George's Hospital Medical School, SimplyHealth, MTV, Qantas, Porsche, Middlesex University, Energizer, Novartis, TUI Travel, StoraEnso, Woolmark and many others in this area. See more here.
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Bob Ferneyhough, Executive Director Human Resources, Henkel |
"Very pleased with contribution HDA have made to our recent site closure and redundancy programmes." |
"The ultimate measure of whether outplacement has worked or not is if people get jobs in a timely manner; this has certainly been the case with the closure of the UK office and I attribute a lot of this success to the way outplacement was managed. The program we devised with HDA was flexible enough to cope with individual needs and timely so that people got thinking about their future quickly enabling them to make clear decisions. The team at HDA have always been responsive, flexible and professional; it has been a pleasure working with them in this difficult time."
European HR Manager, Engineering Company
"HDA's consultants are of a high quality and the matching process with employees is working successfully. I have found HDA to be flexible and adaptable to meet the company's needs and above all, our employees feel supported through what can be a difficult and emotional process"
Senior HR Manager, Financial Services
Our general and large-scale outplacement and redeployment case studies
Our opinions in this area
Achieving ROI via the provision of manager, outplacement and survivor support - Clayton Glen comments in the Health Service Procurement Review - October 09
Build a solid case for outplacement with HDA Outplacement Services - Executive Grapevine Supplement - Clayton Glen - September 09
UK Recession, Redundancy and Outplacement Report - Clayton Glen July 09
HDA - 2009 Outplacement Survey Results - Joanne Simpson June 09
Outplacement…the Key to Talent Retention? - Melissa Gallagher - June 09
Are you controlling your outplacement costs? - Tricia Dicks - November 08
'Getting out of the City' - Executive Grapevine - Clayton Glen Commentary - November 08
Outplacement Support - Measuring the Return on Investment - Joanne Simpson - October 08
Client Feedback Audit 2008 - Melissa Gallagher - August 08
2008 Outplacement Survey Results - Joanne Simpson - July 08
In house Advice Article in The Executive Grapevine - Clayton Glen - June 08
Large-scale change: can outplacement be delivered effectively, and remotely within a tight budget? - Tricia Dicks - Febuary 08
How best to measure Return on Investment (ROI) on the provision of outplacement support - CNI & HDA - December 07
Effective Networking for Career Development in the Age of the Internet - Melissa Gallagher - July 07
Networking and Personal Branding for Senior Executives – Developing a Strategy for Success - Executive Grapevine - Melissa Gallagher - March 07
Providing effective redundancy & redeployment career transition support- Executive Grapevine - Melissa Gallagher - January 07
See more on our recent briefings, press releases and opinions
Who to contact about our services in this area
Luke Bennett, Senior Account Manager - llb@hda.co.uk / +44 (0) 207 484 5481
Joanne Simpson, Managing Career Consultant - jxs@hda.co.uk / +44 (0) 1202 481 811
The challenges of redundancy and redeployment for large-scale outplacement and international outplacement
Providing career transition support for employees faced with redundancy and redeployment is a challenge for large companies, especially if the organisation spans several countries. At HDA Associates we have found that large-scale redundancy and restructuring is best served by career transition support that is easy to access. Our large-scale outplacement support serves both the individuals affected by redundancy and redeployment as well as the organisation. Multi-nationals undergoing reorganisation will need specialist international outplacement assistance to provide global career transition support.
Large-scale outplacement and career transition solutions
Organisations faced with large-scale outplacement and international outplacement requirements will want to support staff facing redundancy by providing good quality career transition advice in a cost effect manner. At HDA Associates, we have provided successful large-scale outplacement support which combines online career transition advice with both one-to-one and group support to individuals affected by redundancy and redeployment. Using online tools to provide staff affected by redundancy with access to job search materials is a very effective way to support employees with their career transition. Plus, as travel and costly on-site services are not required with this remote solution, organisations can save on expenditure. This remote solution is partnered with telephone-based support, which provides individual one-to-one support, albeit remotely. The result is a successful large-scale outplacement or international outplacement programme that provides a high level of care to every part of an organisation in a cost effective manner.
This combination of remote large-scale outplacement support is particularly effective for companies implementing redundancy initiatives at several locations. This large-scale outplacement support enables employees from different locations within an organisation to access career transition support without the need to travel.
Another strong advantage is that this type of large-scale outplacement support can be implemented swiftly. Of course, if an organisation requires extra support perhaps in the form of workshops then these can be incorporated as part of their large-scale outplacement programme.
Making the most of redeployment
Increasingly, businesses undergoing restructuring are recognising that redeployment of staff with transferable skills is preferable and less costly than redundancy and re-hiring. Yet it can be difficult to get employees to compete for position in new disciplines or at new levels as part of a redeployment programme. Redeployment can be especially challenging for larger multi-sites organisations where relocation can be an issue. However, large-scale outplacement or international outplacement consultancies, such as HDA Associates, will be able to help employees through this career transition and redeployment process. Getting highly skilled, well trained employees to participate in redeployment, rather than opting for redundancy, saves on restructuring costs and will improve staff morale.
Meeting the challenges of international outplacement
Redundancy and redeployment poses a different set of challenges for multi-national companies. Restructuring on a global basis will require large-scale and international outplacement support. Through international outplacement support an organisation can help those affected by redundancy and redeployment with their career transition in their chosen global location. International outplacement can also help to settle them if they are relocated.
At HDA Associates, we have over 30 years experience of providing international outplacement support to employees of all levels and disciplines. As part of our international outplacement programme, we provide a highly personalised service to employees going through career transition, even if it requires relocation. Through our network of international offices, our international outplacement programme provides local expertise to help secure new employment or self-employment opportunities – even off shore employment - for our clients.
Whether you are looking for career transition support as part of large-scale outplacement or international outplacement, at HDA Associates, we have the expertise to mitigate your restructuring challenge.