Making a business case for outplacement—especially at scale—can be challenging, even for the most experienced HR leaders. But with redundancy intentions for UK firms at their highest in over 10 years, the need to support employees through transition has never been...
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What Are Stay Interviews? Understand in Under 5 Minutes
Stay interviews are often seen as the opposite of exit interviews, which focus on why an employee is leaving. But let’s take a closer look. What are stay interviews? What Are Stay Interviews? A stay interview is a proactive conversation—typically...
4 Ways Stay Interviews Improve Retention and Reduce Turnover
With the rising turnover rates, companies cannot afford to ignore how stay interviews improve retention. In December of last year, we saw the worrying figure of nearly one quarter (23%) of workers in the UK planning to leave their jobs within the short term – a 3%...
How the 2025 Jobs Market Makes Outplacement Support Essential
What’s the outlook if you find yourself unexpectedly a jobseeker in 2025, needing outplacement support? It hardly seems like 5 minutes ago we were talking about there being over a million job vacancies in the UK. Vacancies peaked at over 1.3 million in April...
How Top HR Leaders Are Tackling Employee Retention in 2025
Employee retention continues to be a crucial focus for HR leaders in 2025. If you’re among the best, you’re already leading the way by addressing critical trends in employee retention. If not, it’s time to catch up and ensure your organisation doesn’t fall...
Job applications – ten basic errors to avoid
Job applications can be undermined by relatively small errors. I was recently asked if I could write an article about these really basic errors. "And when we say basics Ian, we mean basics". So where to start? The internet is awash with negative stories about the way...
Retirement planning – the view from the beach hut
Retirement planning isn't something I've spent a lot of time thinking about. Possibly because I've never imagined just stopping work. While my workaholic tendencies may have had the edges rubbed off over time, I am still constantly thinking about the business,...
The emotional response to redundancy
The emotional response to redundancy will vary considerably from person to person. Ian Gooden, has both experienced redundancy and led HR teams managing the exit process. He explains how individuals can go through multiple phases as they navigate their way out of an...
Why offer career coaching?
Why offer career coaching to your people? There can be a lot of drivers - Chiumento Director Duncan Hamilton explores just some of them. Talent mobility Organisations change. And therefore so do the roles they need. Career coaching is often about preparing people to...
What does retirement mean in 2023?
What does retirement mean? Our Chairman, Ian Gooden, looks at how the whole concept of retirement is changing. Almost 100 years ago - 1925 to be exact - the view was pretty clear. That's when state pensions, as we know them today, came into existence. Means-tested...