Service launched to tackle emotional fall-out from redundancy
A LEEDS-based recruitment and HR specialist has launched an outplacement spin-out to offer a radically different approach to redundancy.
Chrysalis Network has been created by the IHR Group to help employees losing their jobs deal positively with the emotional impact.
The service includes a series of interactive “fun and high impact” courses tackling internal and external motivation, limiting beliefs and how to get rid of them and effective goal setting.
The topics are in conjunction with more traditional subjects such as CV writing, mock interviews, career advice, interview preparation, and effective on and off-line networking.
Chris Mercer-Jones, who heads up the new service, said that people wanted more than CV or career advice when they lose their jobs.
“They need to feel good about themselves again as self-confidence, or the lack of it, is a much bigger show-stopper than any CV or covering letter,” he added.
“The other equally important ingredient is the person delivering the course, because if you can’t engage with them, it doesn’t matter how amazing the content. My passion is helping people realise what they are truly capable of.”
IHR Group comprises of six companies including Ellis Fairbank and Atticus Partnership.
It was formed in 2006 following the acquisition of the EM Group by IHR group chief executive Jason Martin, who led the management buyout of Ellis Fairbank in 2001.
