Outplacement and Career Reset Coaching
Supporting people through redundancy with clarity, confidence, and a credible next step.
Redundancy is more than a career event. It affects confidence, identity, momentum, and often the people around the person leaving.
Career Reset is a confidential, structured 1:1 coaching programme for professionals whose roles have been disestablished. It helps them process the transition, regain perspective, and move forward with a clear plan—not simply react to the job market.
For HR and People leaders, it provides a considered way to support departing employees with dignity, care, and practical career momentum.
Built for two audiences
For HR and People leaders
When roles are disestablished, the way an organisation supports people matters—during the announcement, through the transition, and long after they leave.
Career Reset gives your people access to independent, confidential coaching at a time when they may need space to think clearly, rebuild confidence, and make considered decisions about what comes next.
It helps organisations:
- Support affected employees with a high-quality, human alternative to generic outplacement.
- Protect trust and reputation during a restructure or role disestablishment.
- Offer practical, confidential 1:1 support rather than a group programme or self-serve portal.
- Help people leave with clarity, dignity, and a credible plan for their next chapter.
- Reduce the risk of talented people drifting into reactive or poorly fitted next roles.
For HR teams: Book a confidential conversation about supporting your people through change.
For professionals facing redundancy
Being made redundant can feel sudden, personal, and destabilising. It does not define your capability, your value, or what you are capable of next.
Career Reset gives you a structured, confidential space to make sense of what has happened, regain your footing, and decide your next move deliberately.
You will be supported to:
- Process the change without letting it define your professional identity.
- Rebuild confidence, perspective, and momentum.
- Clarify your strengths, priorities, and non-negotiables.
- Identify the right next role, sector, portfolio career, contract work, or retraining pathway.
- Build a focused search strategy, stronger CV, LinkedIn presence, and interview narrative.
- Stay steady through rejection, delays, and uncertainty.
For professionals: Start with a confidential introductory conversation.
What makes this different
This is not a video course, a group webinar, or a generic job-search programme.
Career Reset is 1:1 coaching, tailored to the individual’s situation, career history, confidence, and goals. Sessions are structured but personal, with practical tools and clear actions between sessions.
The programme typically runs across ten sessions and is designed to help each person:
- Stabilise and make sense of the change create perspective, reduce overwhelm, and separate the role loss from personal worth.
- Reset direction clarify strengths, values, priorities, constraints, and what a good next chapter needs to include.
- Explore and test options consider roles, sectors, contracting, portfolio careers, study, or a deliberate career shift.
- Build a credible career plan turn reflection into a practical roadmap with clear next actions.
- Move into the market with confidence sharpen positioning, CV, LinkedIn, networking, applications, and interview readiness.
- Sustain momentum maintain focus, resilience, and accountability through the realities of a career transition.
Outcomes that matter
The goal is not simply “find another job quickly.”
It is to help each person make a considered next move one that protects their confidence, uses their strengths, and gives them a stronger sense of direction than they had before the redundancy.
Typical outcomes include:
- Greater clarity about the next role or career direction.
- Renewed confidence and a more constructive professional narrative.
- A practical, realistic transition plan.
- Stronger positioning for applications, networking, and interviews.
- Better decisions about whether to pursue a similar role, change sector, contract, retrain, or build a portfolio career.
- A more confident, intentional return to the market.
Recent coaching outcomes
Names and identifying details are withheld to protect client confidentiality.
Leader considering a career shift, from redundancy to reinvention
After their role was disestablished, a leader initially assumed they needed to remain in the same sector. Coaching helped them test that assumption, identify transferable strengths, and explore adjacent opportunities.
They used the transition to reposition themselves, invest in targeted development, and move into a different type of role that better matched their strengths and interests.
Outcome: A successful career shift, with greater clarity and a stronger sense of ownership over their next chapter.
Senior operations leader, from uncertainty to a stronger leadership role
A senior operations leader was disestablished following a significant organisational restructure. Initially, they were focused on finding a similar role as quickly as possible.
Through Career Reset, they clarified the type of leadership environment they wanted, rebuilt their confidence after a difficult exit, and repositioned their experience around commercial impact and team leadership. They moved into a senior role with greater scope, in an organisation better aligned to how they wanted to lead.
Outcome: A more senior role, with clearer alignment, renewed confidence, and a stronger leadership narrative.
Experienced professional, from “take anything” to a deliberate career move
An experienced professional came to coaching feeling pressure to secure any suitable role quickly. They were capable and employable, but uncertainty had narrowed their thinking.
The coaching created space to assess their strengths, financial and family priorities, and longer-term career goals. Rather than defaulting to the first available option, they explored several pathways and ultimately moved into a role that offered better fit, development, and sustainability.
Outcome: A considered career move rather than a reactive job search and a clearer sense of professional direction.
Confidential, independent support
Every coaching relationship is confidential. This gives individuals the freedom to be honest about what they are thinking, feeling, and considering without concern about how it may be perceived internally.
For HR teams, this independence is a strength. Employees receive genuine, personalised support, while the organisation demonstrates care and professionalism during a difficult period.
How we work
Career Reset is delivered 1:1 by Nick Roud, an executive and leadership coach who has supported professionals through career change since 2006.
Sessions are structured, practical, and tailored to the individual. Between sessions, clients receive focused tools, reflection work, and clear actions to maintain momentum.
This is coaching for people who want to move forward well not simply move on quickly.
For HR and People leaders
If you are supporting employees through a restructure, role disestablishment, or organisational change, Career Reset can be tailored to the needs of your people and the scale of the change.
Request a confidential conversation about outplacement support
For professionals facing redundancy
If your role has been disestablished and you want structured, confidential support to reset your career with clarity, you do not need to navigate it alone.
Written work by Nick Roud
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Redundancy To Rebirth.
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Outplacement
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