Outplacement Program

Overview 

Scottsdale Boomerz Outplacement Program helps your departing employees find new career opportunities quickly and efficiently by providing hands-on workshops, individual coaching from some of the best career coaches in the country, and weekly strategic support groups to keep the job seeker accountable and on target.

Program Structure:  Scottsdale Boomerz’ four 2-hour workshops kick start your former employees’ job search campaign by facilitating the planning, development, and implementation of an effective job search strategy. This program, combined with 3 hours of individual coaching sessions and four 2-hour strategy team meetings, ensures that the specific needs of the participants are met so a quick and smooth transition to a new career opportunity can take place. At the conclusion of the program, participants may post their resumes on the Scottsdale Boomerz Career page, and notice of their availability will be made to all corporate members.

Consultation before Lay-offs:  In addition, the program includes a one-hour session for your company with our outplacement coach prior to layoff to discuss internal and external communications and logistics.  

Coaches and Deliverables:  Outplacement workshops are led by qualified, experienced outplacement coaches. Deliverables include a workbook, additional handouts and a completed resume. Finalization of the resume and continued discussion of the job search topics of particular interest to each individual will take place in the individual coaching sessions and during strategy team meetings.

Workshops

Resume and Cover Letter Development:  This two-hour workshop is supplemented by two Individual Resume Development Coaching sessions.  The content is designed to meet the participants’ and prospective employers’ requirements.

·         Defining the Achievement Focused Resume AKA Marketing Material

·         Identifying and Authoring Achievements

·         Creating a Future Focused/Position Driven Summary

·         Developing Key Qualifications; Methods, Processes, Technical Knowledge

·         Resume Formats

·         Creating and Maximizing Position Focused Cover Letters

·         Resume Submission and Hiring Process

The Job Search: This two-hour workshop ensures that each participant has the know-how to develop a targeted, organized Marketing Plan and maximizes a well researched action plan.

·         The Values Driven Job Search

·         Developing a Focused Marketing Plan

·         References as a Marketing Tool

·         The Value of Groups

·         Marketplace Players and The Role of the Internet

·         Navigating The Job Fair

·         The Job Search Checklist

Developing a Successful Focused Networking Campaign: This two-hour workshop provides participants with the skills needed to develop and execute a proactive job search that leverages networking contacts to achieve next career steps. 

·         What Networking Is/Is Not - The “Favor Bank”

·         Locating The Greater Phoenix Networking and Business Community

·         Targeted vs. Non-Targeted Networking, Creating “A” Target List and Bridges

·         Qualifying Networking Contacts using Tools, Documents

·         Conducting a Networking Meeting and the Most Important Networking Question

·         Messages and Scripts : Your Elevator Speech and Exit Statement

·         Achieving Goals: Recording Results and Tracking Progress

Interviewing and Negotiating: This two-hour workshop is focused on how to effectively prepare and execute interviews and to negotiate compensation including salary, benefits and project fees. Coaches will focus on developing participants’ verbal skills, communicating their talents and abilities to meet the requirements of the position and the needs of the employer.

·         Interview Process Objectives, Research, Elements, Rules of Can-do, Will-do, and Fit.

·         A 4-step Model for Answering Interview Questions and Value of a Two-Minute Story

·         Interview, Behavioral Interview and Your Questions

·         Interview Do’s and Don’ts

·         The Power Curve at the Moment of the Job Offer

·         Four Tenants of Non-Adversarial Negotiating and The Compensation Package

·         Receiving, Evaluating the Offer and Researching the Counteroffer

Coaches and Workshop Leaders

Brad Taft: Program Manager - Brad has over 25 years experience in the recruiting and outplacement fields, including Korn/Ferry International, and is president of the Taft Resource Group, which provides career management services to executives and professionals. He has been quoted in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Money, Los Angeles Times and the Employment Law Letter. He co-authored Boom or Bust!: New Career Strategies in a New America, A Career Management Guide for Baby Boomers and Beyond has a B.A. in Communications and MBA from the University of Southern California.

George Fleming: George has over 20 years experience in business management, working with people in both corporate and field office environments. With over six years as a management consultant, he has worked with companies at every stage of growth. George and Momentum Coaching Resources have excelled in the local career transition market, and have been published, interviewed, and quoted numerous times in the Arizona Republic, the Wall St. Journal, Jobing.com, and the Mesa Tribune. He received his BA from Amherst College and his MBA. from Columbia University.

Sharon Taylor:  MA, Vice President, Career Manager, J. P. Morgan  Chase. Sharon is  experienced  in  career  development facilitation, consulting,  instructional design and change management. Her primary role  is  providing  outplacement  services  for  displaced employees. Additionally, she supports employees and management in career development initiatives that enhance performance and job satisfaction.  Sharon holds a BA in Psychology and MA in Human Resource Development.

Victoria Trafton: After 3 decades in  a successful corporate career in the technology industry,  Victoria  Trafton  successfully  transitioned  to the world of small business. Victoria now works with individuals to shorten their journey by helping  them  discover  what they love to do and what they need  to  do to  turn their  dream into  a profitable  reality.   Prior to starting her own company,  Victoria held  Vice Presidential  positions in

Sales, Business Development, Marketing & Engineering. She is credentialed in Language & Education with extensive studies in Computer Science at Stanford.

Patrice Lydick:  As a Community Relations Manager, Jobing.com, 

Patrice brings over 25 years of career education experience as a career counselor in secondary and post-secondary education.  She has assisted with career transition, career management and career advancement.  She shares her expertise and insights by helping clients’ to create a comprehensive strategy and conduct a relevant, on-line job search.

Feedback from previous Outplacement/Recareering Workshops

• Loved everything! One of the best workshops I have attended.

• I learned more in one day than I did with previous outplacement services.  You need to offer this service to local companies – it was great!  Thank you! 

• Very informative – great instructors – great venue for boomers ready to succeed!!! Keep going and get the word out!

• All the presenters had great topics – the things we jobseekers need!

• Thank you for organizing this event! Great value for the money.

• The expertise of the presenters; the visual aids and handouts, the time for questions. A very well-organized day.

• I learned a great deal from a very professional group of presenters. Thanks for putting this together.

• Concise and informational presentations.  Boomerz is a pioneer organization that realizes the needs of a viable talent pool and hopes to match those needs with the needs of enlightened employers. BRAVO!

• With a little massaging, this should be a first class out-placement service.

• Very meaty. Excellent variety, all relevant to job seekers. Extremely well done.

• Useful information, excellent time management, great value for time and money spent.

• Covered a lot of ground. Great overviews exactly what I was looking for. Great first effort!

• Dynamic speakers, handouts. Very well organized. Thank You!!!

Pricing

The Standard Program consists of four two-day workshops, three individual coaching sessions, and four two-hour strategy team sessions over a two-month period.   The fees are $900 per participant for this workshop and coaching package.  The Executive Program, for individuals who desire only private coaching, consists of up to eight one-to-one sessions over a two-month period.  The fees are $1500 for this Executive coaching only package.

For more information or to speak to

a corporate outplacement specialist call 480 423-6188

or e-mail Boomerz.Info@sccmail.maricopa.edu

To sign up for outplacement services, click here.

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