Career Transition Support

Support is tailored to individual needs and can cover assistance over a series of months or weeks or just focus on certain elements such as CV development or interview practice. Examples of our work include support to:

• A Managing Director contemplating whether to stay in her current role or change career direction.
• A Chief Executive wanting an independent assessment of his CV and support in presenting his skills and experience to optimum effect.
• A manager experiencing stress and wanting to make a significant career change (he retrained and is now working in a role he really enjoys).
• A graduate who hadn’t obtained work in his targeted field a few years after graduation (after a CV review and application and interview support he was successful in gaining a competitive internship in his chosen area).
• An individual facing redundancy and uncertain over whether to accept an alternative role in the organisation or to take a redundancy package.

Outplacement Support

Baynham Consulting offers a flexible and responsive service tailored to individual needs and organisational budget and provides support from director level to junior roles. Services can be provided on a individual or workshop basis.

The duration and level of support is discussed and agreed with the sponsoring organisation and typically includes elements from the following areas:

Initial reflection and evaluation

• Managing the emotional impact of change
• Assessing skills, strengths and interests
• Identifying and evaluating potential career avenues

Job search skills and strategy

• Effective search techniques
• Identifying vacancy sources
• Effective use of the internet
• Strategies for approaching agencies and selection consultancies
• Networking
• Direct approaches to organisations
• Action planning

Personal marketing

• Preparing a high impact CV
• Completing application forms and supporting information
• Writing effective covering letters

Interview preparation

• General preparation
• Handling key interview questions
• Making a positive impression
• Preparing for psychometric tests and assessment centres

Testimonials

‘‘The support service Jan provided was excellent as it was very thorough and insightful, as well as being backed with useful and relevant supporting material. She offered a sympathetic but also objective viewpoint, making me think seriously and in different ways about my next career move. She was always willing and happy to go that further step in offering advice and support at any hour. Her attention to detail is fantastic and I came away with a much improved CV and positive outlook on moving my career forward.’’   Marketing Manager

‘’Baynham Consulting offers more personal help than some national firms and helped me to quickly reposition myself.”  Senior Housing Manager

‘’I found the individual support on CVs and interview skills highly effective and useful.  Jan provided clear guidance and direction on the format, as well as giving valuable advice on how to present my skills and experience.  My new CV landed me an interview and the interview skills support prepared me so well that I was offered the job!”  Project Manager