Completing the Employee Life Cycle with LAK Group
Business leaders are faced with constant change and a breakneck pace of decision-making. Running a business is challenging, and layoffs often become an unavoidable outcome of tough business decisions. But any leader will tell you that laying off an employee, a colleague, or a friend is often considered to be one of the most difficult business decisions they have to make. A layoff is life-changing news that unearths a flurry of feelings and emotions on both sides of the conversation.
These days, much attention is given to the attraction, development, and retention stages of the employee lifecycle. However, one could argue that the final stages—offboarding and advocacy—are just as crucial to employee engagement and an employer’s reputation as the earlier phases.
Completing the employee lifecycle by providing critical support as employees transition to their next career opportunity is why outplacement services is a vital component to employee engagement strategies. By offering outplacement, organizations demonstrate a commitment to their employees’ well-being, even after their time with the company ends, which helps preserve the company’s reputation and strengthens its relationship with current and future talent.
The kind of outplacement services your former colleagues or friends receive MATTERS! It can be hard to know what differentiates one outplacement service from the other. At LAK Group, we’ve made this extremely simple with our outplacement services. We work with your former employees, colleagues, and friends until they land a new job. Period!
Why do we think it’s important to offer outplacement until placement?
Normally, outplacement providers work with your former employee for a few months, regardless of whether the individual lands their next job. But anyone who has ever tried to navigate the job market on their own understands the challenges of the process and uncertainty of hiring timelines, which can extend beyond expectations and leave your former employees in a prolonged period of transition.
Losing outplacement support mid-job search puts a tremendous amount of pressure on an already stressed job seeker, who now must try to find a new role on their own. There’s no cost-benefit to you and your employer brand when your former colleague or friend is abandoned midway through their search.
We understand that at LAK Group, which is why we offer outplacement support that lasts until landing a new job. Instead of only working with your former employees for a specific amount of time, we continuously support them until they land their next role, so they never have to go it alone.
When you know your former employees have the help they need for as long as they need it, you can rest easy knowing you’ve provided an exemplary employee experience, even after their time with your company ends.
Our goal is to protect your employer reputation by getting your former employees back to work in a role that they will love and thrive in. We will never abandon them in this crucial time of need. With Outplacement until placement, you can provide the continuity they need to succeed.