Services for Employers

Career Transition and Planning

through Restructuring and Lay Offs

Understanding the concept of personal career management is the cornerstone of the services and programs offered by The Wedge Group. In partnership with your organization, The Wedge Group supports employees as they learn to actively manage their careers, through this transition and others to come.

Each transition point provides a unique opportunity to reflect, set a course, change direction, move ahead. At The Wedge Group, we work closely with individuals to focus on the basic principles of career development, including:

·  Carefully assessing career related values, professional and personal interest, existing skill base and skills to develop, personality and lifestyle.

·  Establishing goals and objectives

·  Identifying past, present and future obstacles to career growth

·  Developing career resiliency and flexibility

·  Creating career development tools and skill sets

·  Linking personal preferences to business needs

·  Implementing career change using the most effective strategies possible

Career Transition
Consulting

Organizational changes of all kinds - restructurings, downsizing, changes in management - can lead to the need to change staffing requirements. Regardless of the size or scope of your organization's needs, The Wedge Group offers a range of outplacement services to support everyone involved in the process.

Meeting with affected employees at the time of termination: The Wedge Group staff will be available to meet with employees immediately following notification to provide support and assistance.

Consulting with management: Delivering termination notifications can be one of the toughest jobs a manager face. The Wedge Group works closely with management teams or individuals to ensure that the entire process runs smoothly, communications are clear and appropriate and the dignity of all parties is protected. The Wedge Group staff can assist management in developing and delivering a communication plan following notifications.

Supporting remaining employees: Seminars, workshops and consulting services are available for those employees who remain in the organization to assist them in making the transition to the new structure. Support programs for remaining employees can significantly improve productivity following a downsizing or restructuring.

Consulting services for transitioning employees: Whether displaced employees are seeking work in their own field or industry, changing careers, considering retirement or an entrepreneurial venture, The Wedge Group offers comprehensive outplacement programs to assist them. Career transition begins the minute the employee leaves the notification meeting. Our consultants immediately begin to help candidates develop the tools they will need to be successful in whatever they choose to pursue.

Career Transition Consulting services can include self-assessment and goal setting, career planning, tool and skill development, coaching on effective search strategies and negotiations skill building.

The Wedge Group offers the following career transition programs:

·  Senior Executive

·  Managers and Professionals

·  Co-Managed

·  Seminar Plus

·  Full Service Career Transition Centers

The "Outplacement
Advantage"

Career Transition Consulting supports both employers and employees by avoiding potential problems, reducing termination costs and putting careers and lives back on track.

The Employer Advantage:

·  Reduces the impact of unemployment insurance, the potential for litigation and other related transition costs

·  Demonstrates care and concern for those facing transition

·  Strengthens company image in the community

·  Reassures remaining employees that former colleagues are being treated with consideration and care

The Employee Advantage:

·  Restores self-confidence and motivation

·  Provides immediate intervention for possible job loss trauma

·  Sharpens career planning and job search skills

·  Reduces time to re-employment