How come we’re still talking “out?” Shouldn’t we be talking in?

Posted at December 18, 2009

Hi there! I’m Julie Walraven, one of Jason Alba’s Career Experts and partners! I’m a career marketing professional and I own designresumes.com. Jason has asked me to come over here and regularly guest blog for him. Jason and I have been friends for several years since we met on the career marketing industry organization e-lists. It starts getting blurry about which group. I belong to Career Director’s International – oh that’s right, I asked Jason before I joined last January. I find myself doing that a lot – asking Jason. I also belong to the Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches and Career Management Alliance. I learned much of what I know about LinkedIn from Jason and definitely grew in social media through learning from his example.

We’ve been talking about his Affordable Outplacement a lot lately and I promised to help him with this blog. Jason’s a busy blogger, what with the JibberJobber blog, the I’m on LinkedIn, Now What blog, and this one, as well as his webinars, speaking engagements, and sales of the LinkedIn for JobSeekers DVD.

Today, I thought we would just touch on something that struck me earlier today in one of my thinking moments. We, the career industry, the economists, the government, the people,… we’re still talking out. Outplacement, out of a job, out of business, but pretty soon we have to start talking in, don’t we?

The reality is the all companies need to start thinking about strategies to manage to turn the companies around, to make them work in this economy, and to plan for the future. In the process of this, there may still be a fair amount of “out” and that’s where Affordable Outplacement comes in. Companies need to exercise strong fiscal management in this very tough economy. In order to be competitive, they may need to make even more changes. But not being considerate of their employees will add to bad reputations. Affordable Outplacement can put a strategy in place that works for the company and makes those employees be able to cope with the changes coming in this new way of doing business.

For the future, companies that put their trust in Affordable Outplacement and the strategies that Jason and the career industry have been promoting, the length of time the employee is out of a job can be shortened and the cost to the company can be much less than the costs of the very large outplacement firms that primarily targeted only the top echelon of the executives. Job seekers are facing a tough market and every one in social media is watching how companies treat their employees.

So let’s start talking in, putting Affordable Outplacement “in” your exit plans.

Thoughts? Talk to me. I talk back. See you again, real soon!