Outplacement Success
A Coach 1st Career Transition Programme — 17 chapters across five stages
Introduction
Outplacement Success is the online learning companion to your Coach 1st programme. It sits alongside your one to one coaching, not in place of it.…
Chapter 1: The Global and UK Job Market
It is easy to form a view of the job market from headlines alone, and headlines rarely tell the full story. As of the most recent data from the…
Chapter 2: Who is Stuart Blake
You are being guided through this course by someone who has sat on both sides of the hiring desk for over forty years, and who has spent the last…
Chapter 3: Managing the Transition: Mindset and Resilience
Redundancy or career change is rarely only a practical event. It is common to move through a sequence of reactions, including shock, frustration, a…
Chapter 4: Being Your Own Recruiter
The single biggest difference between people who move quickly and people who stall is whether they run their search like a structured project or let…
Chapter 5: CV Writing and Personal Branding
A CV is not a historical record of everything you have done. It is a document built to get you an interview for a specific role. That means tailoring…
Chapter 6: Building Your LinkedIn and Online Presence
LinkedIn is now the first place most recruiters and hiring managers look, often before they open a CV. A weak or inconsistent profile can undo strong…
Chapter 7: Fundamentals of Job Searching
Job boards are only one route into a role, and typically the most competitive, since every visible advert attracts a large volume of applications. A…
Chapter 8: Networking and Building Connections
Across the career transition industry, networking is consistently cited as the route through which the majority of roles are actually filled, whether…
Chapter 9: Accessing the Hidden Job Market
A significant proportion of roles are filled before they are ever formally advertised, through internal promotion, referral or direct approach. This…
Chapter 10: Delivering an Outstanding Interview
Most interviews are lost before the candidate arrives, through under preparation rather than lack of ability. Research the organisation properly,…
Chapter 11: Delivering a Competency Based Interview
Competency based interviews ask you to evidence specific behaviours through real examples, usually introduced with phrases such as tell me about a…
Chapter 12: Psychometric and Aptitude Test Preparation
Many larger employers include some form of psychometric or aptitude testing as part of their process, particularly at graduate, corporate and senior…
Chapter 13: Negotiating Salary and Offers
Research the genuine market rate for the role, your sector and your region before any offer conversation begins, using multiple sources rather than a…
Chapter 14: Achieving and Maintaining Confidence
Confidence during a job search is built through evidence, not willed into existence through positive thinking alone. A run of rejections can erode…
Chapter 15: Exploring Self Employment and Portfolio Careers
Not everyone in transition is looking for another permanent role. Consultancy, freelancing, interim work and portfolio careers, where you combine…
Chapter 16: Career Development
Securing your next role is not the end point of career development, only the next stage of it. Given that a significant proportion of the skills used…
Chapter 17: Starting Strong: Your First 90 Days
How you approach your first ninety days in a new role shapes the impression you make for a long time afterwards. Several outplacement providers now…
Conclusion: Taking Ownership of Your Future
Every chapter in this programme has been built around the same idea: a career transition goes better when you treat it as something you actively…
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