Outplacement
Outplacement Alkmaar - Find guidance in case of dismissal
After leaving an employer, finding the right role is only part of the picture. The working environment matters too. With outplacement in Alkmaar, we explore both the type of role and the kind of organisation in which you are most likely to thrive.
- A coach who knows the employers above the North Sea Canal
- Attention for the kind of organisation where you thrive
- Components you choose yourself
- Also when several colleagues leave at once
Trusted by organisations that invest in their people
Outplacement: support towards a new future
What is outplacement?
Under outplacement the bill for guiding you to a next job sits with your employer. What that amount comes down to belongs in your settlement agreement or social plan, and that document is worth having read through: having your settlement agreement reviewed. You keep one and the same coach, and the introductory meeting carries neither a charge nor an obligation.
How the phases run into each other is explained at what an outplacement programme involves.
What does an outplacement process look like at Care4Careers in Alkmaar?
Our approach in 5 steps
Run in this order, the five steps below make up the outplacement programme. The order is fixed because every step feeds on the result of the previous one. That is the difference between outplacement and ad hoc help with applications.
Many people opt for a modular programme: together with your coach you decide where to put the effort. Here you will find our modules.
Personal intake
Where did you work, what was it like there, and what do you want to take along or leave behind? Those three questions set the rest.
Coaching and assessment
Alongside your skills we look at what kind of environment suits you. That part is often skipped and explains a lot of failed moves.
Preparing for the market
Who ends up reading your CV varies widely: a family firm's director notices different things than a corporate recruiter.
Job search and network
Many employers here do not advertise. You approach them directly, prepared, and we go through each conversation afterwards.
Aftercare and support
Our support does not end on your first working day. During the first period, you can still turn to your coach to discuss whether the role, employer and working rhythm are a sustainable fit.
When support can make a difference during a transition
When outplacement is used
There is no single reason for starting outplacement. We begin with the circumstances of your departure and build the support around what needs to happen next.
Your position disappears
If restructuring removes your role, we identify which parts of your experience remain valuable elsewhere and turn them into a focused external search.
Your fixed-term agreement is approaching its end
A known leaving date gives you useful preparation time. You can clarify direction, strengthen your profile and make first contacts before your final working day.
Both sides agree that the employment relationship will end
Career transition support can be included in the arrangements surrounding a mutual departure, giving you professional help with the phase that follows.
Returning to the previous role is no longer the route forward
If employment ends after a sustainable return is no longer appropriate, we explore which type of work and environment may suit your current situation better.
Outplacement in Alkmaar
From work to work, at an employer that suits you
Two jobs with the same title feel entirely different at a family firm and at a hospital group. Skip that difference and six months later you discover the role was right and the surroundings were not.
We speak to the employers here ourselves
From the care providers and wholesalers to the installation firms and the municipalities. Getting in at a small firm works differently from getting in at a large organisation, and we know which is which per employer.
Eight components, you decide the mix
Coaching and assessment stand at the head, aftercare at the tail, and the middle holds CV and LinkedIn, interview training, network, job search and entrepreneurship.
Attention for how it went before
Did you feel lost in a large organisation, or hemmed in by a small one? That is useful information rather than a complaint, so we ask about it explicitly.
After your first working day as well
Only the first weeks show whether a culture suits you. During that period you can simply call your coach.
What you are working towards
You know what kind of environment brings out your best, and you work at an organisation that provides it.
Who guides you
The coaches at Van der Kaaijstraat
A single contact throughout, at home among the employers north of the canal: the care providers as much as the companies on the Boekelermeer. You can meet here or digitally.
Our office
Outplacement in Alkmaar and nearby
Our Alkmaar address is Van der Kaaijstraat, south of the centre and a short drive from anywhere in the city. North Holland above the North Sea Canal has a labour market of its own: healthcare, trade and professional services carry it, and the organisations differ enormously in scale. From a family business of twelve people to a hospital group with thousands.
About Alkmaar
Good to know about Alkmaar
One hospital group across several sites
Healthcare is the largest employer here and operates across Alkmaar, Den Helder and the surrounding towns. A move within the same organisation can therefore already mean a completely different workplace.
Many companies under fifty staff
A dense layer of family firms and wholesalers surrounds the city. They rarely advertise and hire on conversation and recommendation, which makes job boards less useful here than in the Randstad.
Amsterdam is forty minutes away
The train puts you at Sloterdijk in forty minutes. For anyone who finds that an acceptable commute the supply doubles; for anyone staying in the region, what counts is how well we know the employers here.
Van der Kaaijstraat, on the south side
You can park in the street and there is a bus from Alkmaar station. Would you rather not travel? Then the sessions run on screen.
The region at a glance
The labour market in Alkmaar
Healthcare, trade and professional services carry the load here, with trade and professional services, while the sharpest shortages sit in engineering and construction. What stands out is the scale: many employers are small, which means vacancies circulate by word of mouth more than online.
Characteristic of this region
- Healthcare
- Trade
- Professional services
Where the openings are
- Healthcare
- Technical
- Construction
- IT
Roles with prospects
- Healthcare
- Technical
- Administration
- Planning
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about outplacement
What does a programme cost?
The band starts at 2,000 euros and ends at 5,000, VAT left out. Your place inside that range depends on the components used and the months involved. The figure is agreed up front, before any appointment is made, and your employer is invoiced directly. You get the figure in a quote before anything starts. The figures are broken down at what an outplacement programme costs.
I would rather search nearby than in Amsterdam. Is that possible?
Certainly, and it is a normal choice here. Above the North Sea Canal there is plenty of work in healthcare, engineering, construction and trade; the supply is simply less visible because it runs through people more than through sites. That is what we aim the search at.
I have been with the same employer for twenty years.
You may know your own organisation inside out while having less insight into opportunities elsewhere. We help you translate your experience into a profile that is clear and relevant to other employers.
Can I get guidance without a dismissal?
Yes. If you want to orient yourself with nothing else going on, career coaching fits better than outplacement; you usually pay for that yourself and it starts at 1,000 euros excluding VAT.
How quickly can we start?
Rarely longer than a week once the assignment is signed off. We answer your enquiry within 24 hours.
I am in healthcare and want out. Where would I end up?
That is a common question here, because healthcare is the region's largest employer. Care experience carries weight with health insurers, training institutions, suppliers of medical equipment, the public health service and the municipality alike. What almost always transfers is working under time pressure, dealing with people in difficult circumstances and following protocol. What you have to learn to write down again is how that holds value outside a care institution.
We have several employees leaving. Do they get the same programme?
No. One only needs help writing down their experience, another has to work out what they want first. Each employee builds a programme from our modules together with their coach. See the modules.
Where is Care4Careers in Alkmaar?
Van der Kaaijstraat 64, 1815 VM Alkmaar, on the south side of the city. Give us the day in advance and a coach will be kept free.
Which towns fall under this location?
Heerhugowaard, Heiloo, Bergen, Castricum, Schagen, Hoorn and Den Helder are included. Looking towards Zaanstad or Amsterdam, and that direction is covered as well.
Have another question about outplacement? Feel free to get in touch for a no-obligation conversation.
Related services
More career support in Alkmaar
Is something else at play? There is more in this region than guidance after dismissal.
Outplacement programme
From dismissal to new work, starting from the kind of workplace that suits you.
Career coaching
Fixing your direction while your job is not yet in question.
Jobsearch support
Approaching employers when your direction is settled and only the door is still shut.
Career scan
Mapping digitally what you can do and what drives you; a report comes with it.
Outplacement for employers
As an employer, arranging guidance set up differently for each departing employee.
Outplacement near Alkmaar
Outplacement throughout Noord-Holland
From Den Helder to Castricum we work the same way.
Care4Careers also provides second-track reintegration in Alkmaar and career coaching in Alkmaar. See all our locations.
Contact location Alkmaar
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