Outplacement is different from Mid-Career Advancement in that outplacement is usually purchased by an employer as a benefit for a displaced manager or employee.

IDAK provides a unique Career Advancement approach to outplacement which empowers each candidate with the opportunity to move beyond their present job stereotype. This significant advantage is at no extra cost.

IDAK’s Career Advancement Advantage is of particular importance for industries, government agencies and business firms where there are limited opportunities to find employment in a candidate's present field.

IDAK’s Career Advancement Advantage is applied in each phase of our individual outplacement services. (For group outplacement, move ahead to the last paragraph in this outplacement information.)

Outplacement Fees

Our fees begin at $275 per person for a self-help service and progress to a maximum of $7,350 for unlimited executive service.

For outplacement services beginning at $1,875, our consultation sessions with your candidate are individual and private. Each person is expected to meet with his/her counselor for at least one hour every week for the duration of our service contract. We do not substitute group or seminar meetings for our quality one-on-one sessions. These weekly private coaching sessions are a significant advantage.

We believe IDAK’s Career Advancement Advantage is significantly a "best buy" for your outplacement dollar. For this high quality, our fees are surprisingly competitive. We welcome your consideration of our IDAK trained and certified consultants to assist you.

Questions typically asked:

1. How can you provide this significant advantage of quality service, individual appointments, and skilled consultants for such a reasonable price?

To maintain a competitive price without lowering quality, we have focused our services on training and coaching your employee rather than providing a private office, gourmet coffee, and unlimited clerical support. We have found that these "extras" do not contribute to getting your employee hired any faster, yet are expensive to provide. For companies who request them, these services are available. Since your employee will be so active in the job search, he/she will not have a need to be reading the Wall Street Journal and waiting for the phone to ring.

2. How do you help a candidate process grief, anger or fear because of a job loss?

This question comes up frequently; therefore, it is the very first issue we address with a candidate (and spouse, if married). At our very first meeting, we are usually able to gain the confidence and trust of our outplacement client. We give them hope for the future and we quickly deliver a very thorough quality assessment. A second technique we have found is to keep each candidate actively accomplishing measured weekly goals. This allows little time for negative emotions to dominate their transition. We believe constructive work is a good antidote for fear and depression.

3. What about the candidate's spouse?

We strongly recommend that each candidate's spouse attend the consultation session where we review our career assessment results and begin to map the direction for your employee’s future. We actively solicit the spouse's input and provide a standing invitation to attend future coaching sessions.In cases where a candidate is selecting a high risk career change, we strongly encourage the spouse to meet with us to review the risks and advantages.

4. What is the difference between your lowest and highest fee for service?

Our lowest "budget" priced service provides for each candidate a complete career advancement and job transition coaching service in a self-help program through audio instructional cassettes and notebook. These are attractively bound in a cassette album. Our lowest priced individual counseling service is three weeks. We literally "cram" three months of instruction into three weeks. Our longer term service provides more individual assistance and coaching throughout the entire job search. We discuss each employment contact your employee makes and provide guidance on how to schedule return visits. Our longer term service usually results in your employee getting hired faster at a higher quality position.

5. What is the biggest problem companies face when a cutback is necessary?

Deciding who to let go is the toughest decision. Many times those "cut" are people who have demonstrated loyalty and hard work. These people have children and spouses. They have feelings. It is far better to empower these individuals with a tool enabling them to move ahead than to give the bad news that they must be terminated. Our career advancement option gives hope that the future can be better than the present. Most of our clients have told us that they are better off after we have helped them than they were in their past positions. This advantage of moving up instead of out provides a significant morale boost to all concerned.

Individual outplacement services can be tailored to any location in the United States.

Group Outplacement

For group outplacement, we provide the same Career Advancement Advantage.

Group outplacement can be arranged in half-day (two sessions), one, two or three day sessions.

Group outplacement begins with the very basic curriculum résumé preparation, job interview skills and networking training. The curriculum can be upgraded to a more advanced career re-direction training. All group outplacement is arranged to fit your company’s needs, schedule and budget.