
Outplacement or career transition services have moved from the realm of "Executives Only" and are now more widely offered to departing employees drawn from all levels within an organisation.
It makes good commercial sense to allow departing employees to leave with dignity and quickly resume their career with another employer, minimising the negative feelings of remaining staff, avoiding costly industrial disputation and severing the co-dependency relationship of the employee upon the organisation.
Immediate counselling to the affected individual places the situation in context and provides them with a more positive view of the future.
The transition strategy that managed the closure of the Newcastle Steelworks in September 1999 and spawned the Pathways Program, was run from the period April 1997 until December 2000.
It was the largest industrial closure in Australian corporate history affecting a workforce of nearly three thousand direct employees and some eight hundred contractors.
The Pathways Program was a phenomenal success and set the international benchmark for large scale closures.
The Pathways Program model has been utilised for every major industrial closure in the Hunter Region since 2000 and various intra and interstate projects.
Whether you need to transition a few people or thousands, Pathways provides full support to your organisation, line management and employees: before, during and after separation.
The Pathways Program is flexible and can be tailored to a budget or the specific needs of an individual. The program integrates career consultation, training, coaching, employment networking, research and administrative support - to ensure that the participant finds an appropriate outcome.
Pathways has a proven track record in assisting organisations with the decommissioning of manufacturing sites, acquisitions, industry consolidation, workforce rightsizing and redundancy planning.
Recognising the need to compete on an equal footing with global and national personnel agencies, Pathways was successful in gaining certification for its Quality Management System to ISO 9001:2000 in May 2002.
The inherent disciplines that a Quality Management System instils in the procedures and practices of a business have enabled Pathways to prosper by providing a superior service to clients.
A superior service that Pathways would like the opportunity to provide to you.
To find out more about the range of outplacement solutions available please enquire here or call Pathways on 02-4960 8555.