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Post-Merger Integration: Full Guide
For two companies to merge, leaders of both organizations have to put tremendous effort into...
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How retailers should handle a reduction in workforce
Retail Layoffs: How to Protect Your Brand During a Reduction in Force
Due to changes in shopping habits, overhiring, poor growth predictions, economic conditions, and other direct...
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First-Time Manager Training and Support: Why It’s Essential
In the wake of widespread layoffs, many organizations are promoting employees to managerial positions to...
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HR Trends January 2023: The Top Industry Reads
HR Trends of January 2023: The Key Reads
Welcome to our summary of January’s best reads on HR trends! This month, trending topics...
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INTOO's 2022 Year in Review
INTOO’s 2022 Year in Review
2022 began with the end of The Great Resignation. While that trend faded, engagement continued...
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Is Outplacement Worth It? It Depends.
When the nation’s job vacancies seemingly outnumber those unemployed, outplacement can be perceived as an...
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Will Layoffs Continue? Lessons from the Tech and Financial Services Industries
The economy is dynamic and constantly changing, sometimes faster than we expect it to. One...
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3 Offboarding Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Business
Even if your business is mostly concerned with finding talent at the moment, know this:...
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Healthcare Layoffs: What HR Managers Need to Know
This article, originally published on December 4, 2019, has been updated. Even with the surge...
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RIF, Layoff, Furlough, Termination — We Chart the Differences
While reductions-in-force (RIFs), layoffs, and furloughs are all difficult actions employers take out of necessity...
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3 Ways to Fail at Communicating Layoffs
Giving bad news is never easy. However, for business leaders and HR professionals, effectively delivering...
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Employee Termination Checklist: Make The Process Easier!
One of the reasons employee terminations can feel difficult to manage is that the process...
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How to Get Leadership Support for Outplacement Benefits: 5 Must-Know Stats
Many leaders think of outplacement as a service that benefits employees leaving the organization. After...
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Jarick Simbol Networks into an Unadvertised Role During the Pandemic: A Candidate Success Story
After graduating from California State University, Long Beach in 2018, Jarick Simbol knew he wanted...
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Severance Pay: Answers to the 4 Most Common Questions
Having an established policy regarding severance is a best practice for any company—not only to...
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How to Conduct an Exit Interview that Benefits Your Company
Why do good employees leave your organization? Knowing the answer to this question will help...
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Protecting Your Employer Brand While Considering Company Relocation
Organizations may consider company relocation for a number of reasons: to reduce costs, to create...
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Kim Baker Negotiates a VP Role with Better Pay, Comp Structure: A Candidate Success Story
If you’re a well-respected executive with a record of success, opportunities come calling when you...
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In keeping with current outplacement trends, a manager conducts a layoff virtually.
Outplacement Trends: Could COVID-19 Change How Companies Manage Layoffs?
The monthly U.S. jobs report for April 2020 revealed what many of us already suspected:...
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Outplacement Process: Top 10 Things to Know
Much as hiring isn’t a simple matter of just saying “yes” to a candidate, the...
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Bill Curry lands a role with better pay and benefits in the coronavirus crisis: A candidate success story
A senior program manager at a software company, Bill Curry built his career managing large...
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What Is An Outplacement Consultant and Why You Need One
If you work in HR, you know that staying on top of the rapidly changing nature...
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Will Walter secures a new job at Wiley during the coronavirus crisis: A candidate success story
When Will Walter was laid off from his marketing position at a publishing company in...
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2020 Trends: College and University layoffs
Do universities share the same fate as department stores? Because the COVID-19 pandemic has changed...
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Business Succession Planning: 3 Ways to Create a Succession Plan That Works
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown companies big and small that business and life don’t always...
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How does unemployment insurance work?
Due to the economic effects of the coronavirus crisis, many American workers are asking for...
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Baby Djojonegoro finds a new role in healthcare: A candidate success story
From researchers that produce medical breakthroughs to teachers that support vital education initiatives, grants pay...
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Outplacement Coaching – What To Expect In 2020
With the coronavirus pandemic disrupting established workplace patterns and structures, employers are grappling with many...
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Aerial view of a laptop and notebook, from a writer's desk who found her new career with the help of Intoo outplacement.
Sharita Hanley Pivots to Her Dream Career as a Writer Amid the Coronavirus Crisis: A Candidate Success Story
Sharita Hanley always loved writing—so much so that she served as president of an International...
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Best Practices for Higher Education Faculty Layoffs & Furloughs
Due to the coronavirus crisis, many universities and colleges have had to make rapid workforce...
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How to Conduct a Layoff, Furlough, or Recall Legally During the Coronavirus Crisis
We’ve entered a new phase of the coronavirus crisis. This month, some non-essential businesses have...
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Succession Planning Checklist: How to Make a Business Succession Plan
Planning for the future is a task easy to put off, but an essential measure...
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How to Deal with Company Reorganization: 5 Tips for Employers
The unstable economy has prompted employers nationwide to re-evaluate their organizational structures. This means we...
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National Sales Director Lands Dream Opportunity at Amazon: An Outplacement Success Story
The last time Raymond Fields applied for a job with a new company, Bush had...
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Top 10 Legal HR Questions For Navigating Through and Out of The Coronavirus Crisis, Answered
Changing employment laws. Sudden layoffs and furloughs. New safety regulations. The coronavirus crisis has quickly...
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Roger Slowinski Finds a Technician Position Amid the Coronavirus Crisis : A Candidate Success Story
Before his layoff in early 2020, Roger Slowinski had never applied for a job online....
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Melissa Armstrong Finds Her Dream Job—During the Coronavirus Crisis: A Candidate Success Story
As the director of national sales for an information technology company, Melissa Armstrong traveled around...
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3 Keys to Protecting Your Brand During Organizational Downsizing – Webinar Recap
Since layoffs and terminations happen in every industry, preparing for potential workforce changes is an...
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How to Navigate the Job Market During the Coronavirus Crisis: Tips From a Career Coach
Unemployment rates have skyrocketed in response to the coronavirus crisis in recent weeks. Many employees...
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How to Find a Job During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Tips from a Career Coach
With record unemployment rates making news in recent weeks, many Americans find themselves anxious and...
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How to Conduct Virtual Layoffs—Compassionately
Getting laid off is never easy, but the coronavirus crisis has made the experience even...
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Furloughs & Virtual Layoffs: Best Practices During the Coronavirus Crisis
Key Points The way employers conduct layoffs and furloughs during this pandemic will define their...
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Jennifer O’Shasky Makes Her Move Into the Travel Industry: A Candidate Success Story
Getting laid off can be stressful for anyone. But getting laid off after decades at...
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5 Surprising Stats on the State of Post-layoff Support, Outplacement, and the American Workforce
This month has been a tumultuous time for HR professionals. Because of the coronavirus pandemic,...
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How to Begin the Layoff Communication: Delivering the News & Mitigating the Risks
Sometimes letting people go is the only way to move your business forward. Still, no...
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Recession-Proofing Your Talent Strategy — EMBARC 2019 Session Recap
The stock market has taken major hits in the last weeks due to the effects...
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Compassionate Offboarding: Managing Layoffs – Webinar Recap
Layoffs can take a toll on anyone, regardless of whether you’re the person delivering the...
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Layoff Notice: What’s Expected of Employers?
Communicating a layoff is often a complex process. Many questions have to be answered before...
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Reduction in Force Best Practices: How to Protect Your Employer Brand
Employer brand plays an increasingly important role in the social media age. Customers often read...
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Memo to Self: How to Write a Layoff Memo the Right Way
What is the best way to let employees know a layoff is coming? For most organizations...
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5 Steps to Using a Reduction in Force Plan Template
When an organization goes through a downsizing, HR professionals need to manage many big and...
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Layoff and Recall Policy: Do You Have One?
Because a wide range of factors influence business success, no industry or organization can consider...
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How to Decide Whom to Lay Off During a Restructure
When organizations go through a restructuring, departments are often merged, whittled down, or eliminated altogether,...
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Restructuring? How to Avoid Layoff Discrimination
A business restructuring can be a positive time of evolution for an organization. The ensuing...
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Are Major Layoffs More Common Since the Recession?
From late 2007 until the summer of 2009, the U.S. experienced the worst recession since...
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HR Operations: 5 Tips for Managing Layoffs During a Merger
While mergers often make great business sense, they also bring up fears about pending layoffs...
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What is Severance Pay? How it’s Calculated, Benefits & More
While companies are not required by federal law to provide severance pay to terminated employees,...
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5 Things Employers Should Know About Negotiating Severance
While companies are not required by federal law to provide severance pay, offering a severance...
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7 Reasons That Companies Offer Severance Packages
When employees leave a company, they are entitled to receive regular wages for time worked,...
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Communicating Layoffs to Remaining Employees in 5 Steps
When HR professionals talk about communicating layoffs, the discussion generally centers around breaking the news...
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Employees working on computers in modern office room, discussing recent layoffs.
How To Motivate Employees After Layoffs
When a company conducts a layoff, a lot of attention is given to the employees...
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Are Companies Required to Pay Layoff Severance?
No matter the cause for termination, letting go an employee is never easy. It can...
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19 Fascinating Stats on Layoff Anxiety—Infographic
Nearly half of American employees experience layoff anxiety, despite record low unemployment rates. That’s according...
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How to Lay Off an Employee: Industry Best Practices
Almost every company has an employee onboarding process to help new hires start their jobs...
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Terminated vs laid off: Two people at a meeting table discuss the differences in process.
Terminated vs Laid Off: What Each Process Should Look Like
Terminated vs Laid Off. Discover the best way to tackle these challenging HR conversations. Terminated...
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What To Do If You Get Fired: Quick & Simple Guide
Getting fired from your job can be emotionally devastating. A termination forces you to address...
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4 Outplacement Statistics That Could Save Your Brand Reputation
As trends and other industry shifts make their impacts on business, your company may sometimes...
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How to Transition Senior Executives with Executive Outplacement
Career transitions are rarely easy, but they are often especially tough for senior executives. As The...
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How do Virtual Outplacement Services work?
Virtual Outplacement Services: How Do They Work?
Being fired or laid off is never a pleasant experience, but oneof the biggest concerns...
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3 Keys to Protecting Your Brand During Layoffs: Lessons from HR Leaders
Guest Post | By Yair Riemer, CMO, Intoo | @YairR – View Yair's #TalkHR Webinar “3 Keys to Protecting...
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Tech Layoffs Looming? Analyst Predicts Over 330k Workforce Cuts in Technology Sector
Just a year ago, the tech world was dominated by unicorns -- VC-backed startups that...
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