Chiumento Blog

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How Can Career Coaching Boost Employee Engagement?

The Current Jobs Market and Impact on Employee Engagement    It’s no secret that the UK jobs market has become increasingly unstable in recent months. With higher employer costs, an unstable economy, redundancies and hiring freezes, the morale and productivity of...

Are Redundancy Headlines Impacting Employee Confidence?

Are redundancy headlines impacting employee confidence? In the immediate aftermath of the COVID pandemic, redundancy rates in the UK dropped to the lowest levels since records began.  At the same time UK vacancy levels soared – peaking at 1.3 million open job...

Coping with Redundancy: What I’ve Learned

With 32% of UK businesses in 2025 planning to reduce headcount either through redundancies or by recruiting fewer staff, the number of people coping with redundancy and the need for redundancy support has never been more pressing. (CIPD, Labour Market Outlook) We...

Leadership Lessons from Redundancy: HR Insights

My story is not unique—between May and July of 2024 alone, approximately 82,000 people faced redundancy (ONS). However, the troubling trend doesn’t end there... As we enter 2025, the UK is experiencing the largest wave of redundancies in a decade (excluding the...

Finding the Right Balance: Redundancy Support and Cost Pressures

With 1 in 4 businesses looking at redundancies this year according to CIPD's Labour Market Outlook, HR is under pressure to do more with less in 2025, and redundancy support is becoming an essential service for businesses facing tough decisions. These are two separate...

The Hidden Value of Outplacement Services

The Hidden Value of Outplacement Services

In today’s fast-paced world, careers are anything but linear. My own journey from hospitality to a Marketing Executive, with stops in design along the way, is a testament to the unpredictable nature of professional growth. But what happens when the unexpected strikes,...

Knowing Your Numbers: Fostering a Healthy Career

Knowing Your Numbers: Fostering a Healthy Career

"Knowing your numbers" is often talked about as a key attribute of the best business leaders. And no doubt a command of the P&L, cashflow and KPIs is really important. However, in the last few weeks I've been reminded that there's another set of numbers we need to...