Credentials

The hidden cost of tiered outplacement

Under most mainstream programmes, support is rationed by seniority. Senior leaders are typically offered six months of coaching. Less experienced staff might receive three. Everyone else is often given no coaching at all, only a login to a self service portal.

Every departing employee tells that story to somebody: a former colleague, a recruiter, a review site, a LinkedIn post. And every employee who stays watches how their departing colleagues were treated, then draws their own conclusion about what the organisation actually thinks people like them are worth.

Tiered outplacement does not just affect the people who leave. It sends a message to the people who remain, and that message tends to surface later, in engagement scores, in the retention of people you wanted to keep, and in how the organisation is spoken about long after the restructuring itself is forgotten.

Coach 1st removes that risk. Every participant, from apprentice to chief executive, receives the same coach, the same six months, and the same standard of support.

People coached: 7,000+

People supported into new roles: 2,500+

Outplacement success within 26 weeks: 90%

Job seeking coachees receiving offers within 16 weeks: 87%

Client satisfaction: 94%

Stuart Blake founded Coach 1st in September 2018, following over 40 years of senior recruitment leadership at managing director and chief executive level, including roles at TMP Worldwide, Monster.com, Harrison Willis, and Greatfleet PLC. 

He has personally coached more than 7,000 people and holds personal ICF accreditation across career, executive, life, confidence, and ADHD coaching.

Coaching is led by Stuart personally, and delivered to International Coaching Federation standards throughout. 

Every participant, regardless of programme size, also receives full access to Outplacement-Achieve, our specialist online outplacement support platform, for the duration of their programme.

Coach 1st programmes have been delivered for and alongside:

• An International Training Company, supporting learners connected to LSE, King's College London, the University of Cambridge, the Bank of England, and Google

• An International Outplacement and Restructuring Company, delivering outplacement coaching for chief executives and board directors

• An Employability Providerworking in partnership with the DWP, delivering programmes for cohorts across London and the Home Counties

• An International Tech Training Charity, in association with the Greater London Authority's London Digital Skills Hub, achieving 52 to 58 per cent job outcomes for long term unemployed people with at least one barrier to employment

Outplacement success is measured within 26 weeks of programme start. Job search outcomes for coachees are measured within 16 weeks. Client satisfaction is measured across all coaching engagements, not outplacement alone.