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Linda K. Rolie, MA, CVC
Ashland, Oregon
(541) 482-2337
E-Mail: Linda Rolie |
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CORPORATE OUTPLACEMENT
SERVICES
Career Services provides a seamless transition for exiting employees
through education, assessments, resumes, training workshops, job search
strategies, labor market access, and rapid job placement. Career Services has
a highly experienced professional team, offering a menu of services ranging
from a large division downsizing and pre-separation planning, to individual
career transition assistance.
Career Services
Advantages
- Highly competitive in service and delivery
- Sole-source, streamlined project management team, who deliver the direct
services
- Single source responsibilities from assessments to project management
- Remove layers of costly points of contact
- In house proprietary manuals and training modules
Career Services Job Placement
Rate
Our Team of career partners has a track record delivering over 90% placement
rate within the contract period. Corporate outplacement candidates expect to
receive services resulting in satisfying jobs with equal or increased
compensation.
Career Transition guidebook and
Workshop Training Modules
Corporate clients consistently give the Career Transition guidebook and
Workshop Training modules excellent evaluation ratings of 4.75 on a 5 point
scale.
Corporate Outplacement
Professional Team
Career Services are professionals.
(Click here for The Team's Professional Profiles). We also
have a proven history specializing in some of the most complex employment
situations, all through one point of contact and easy access. When you bring
our professionals together, you acquire exemplary services and solutions.
Together, our customer experience satisfaction rate is highly valued. We have helped thousands of separated employees and hundreds of
organizations through change, strategic planning, and career transition.
We pride ourselves in:
- Competitive Services
- Process Organization
- Responsiveness
- Expertise
- Results
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- Sensitivity
- On Site Availability
- Commitment
- Values
- Customized Programs
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Downsizing and restructuring
requires
- careful preparation
- excellent communication
- wise decision-making
- skillful implementation of career transition management
Maximizing on these services, organizations quickly mitigate the adverse impact
of job loss and career transition.
Employees subject to layoff
receive
- expertise and equal effectiveness with executives,
professionals/management, and other background levels
- professional support and direct assistance
- labor market access readiness
- an action plan and job search strategies
- career transition workshop training modules
- help in managing emotions and coping skills that accompany change
Participants quickly become career focused, and are able to make smooth
transitions more rapidly.
Our sensitive and practical approach
to providing support to separating and retained employees
- improves morale
- increases motivation
- reduces litigation
- enhances the organization's reputation
In preparation for organizational
change, we conduct a
- pre-separation planning to identify and prevent predictable perils
- 'needs assessment' to evaluate the scope of the project
- relocation/transfer planning for retained candidates
- proposal for a seamless transition
We offer
- Strategic logistics planning with your management team
- Career Center to support and serve participants in job search
- Workshops loaded with fun, handouts, relevant exercises, and pertinent
activities for satisfying career transition and job placement.
- Career Transition guidebook, Power Point, and illustrative training modules
to guide and direct impacted participants
- Effective, professionally unique resumes
Career Transition
Guidebook
- The popular, well-organized, and extremely user-friendly career transition
manual titled, "Getting Back to Work - Everything You Need to Bounce Back and Get a Job After a Layoff,"
written by Linda K. Rolie, CEO/President of Career Services, guides and directs
participants. Notably a valuable resource for years to come.
Assessments
- A comprehensive assessment system to aid in all phases of career
development, including
- Interactive Web-based inventories are tools that can help most anyone in
career transition or job search gain knowledge, insight, focus and direction. The
inventories can be completed in the privacy of a home computer or career
center office.
Candidate Progress
Tracking
- Ensuring responsiveness, Career Services provides outreach to candidates
while tracking their progress to expedite their individual career transition
program. The report tracking system allows easy access to corporate clients to
assess progress and accountability.
Job Fairs
- provide a forum for employers and participants to exchange information
and get acquainted for preliminary job search and placement services.
Group or Individual Career
Counseling:
- Managing Emotions
- Workshops/Modules
- Complete Guidebook
- Resumes and Cover Letters
- Skills Identification
- Resources and Networking
- Job Interview Skills
- Job Search Strategies
- Job Offer Negotiation
Employer Consultation:
- Needs Assessment and Evaluation
- Perils Prevention
- Strategic Planning
- Facilitation
- Talent Capital Management
- Job Descriptions
- Infrastructure
- Work Flow Analysis
Our highly experienced professionals deliver quality services whether your
organization has a large downsizing or one departing employee. Click here to
review the professional profiles of The Corporate
Outplacement Team.
Linda K. Rolie
We Create Opportunity
Through Transition
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"If your organization is in need of an outplacement program, Linda Rolie is an outstanding professional who consistently delivers rapid results and affordability, including over 90% job placement rate within a short period of time for those professionals impacted by layoff and seeking new employment. Linda encourages and guides individuals and groups to their next career opportunity. Her services were invaluable to us as an employer to the employees as well."
- Gregg Edwards, Chief People Officer, Asante Health Care System
"If you are looking for attentive, professional, and experienced outplacement assistance services for displaced employees, Linda Rolie has it all and provides these services with a 'personal touch' that can't be matched by the larger organizations providing these services. Linda's company, Career Services, really delivers."
- Keith Grimm, MBA, PHR, Director of Human Resources, Willamette University
Outplacement Feedback
Southern Oregon University workshop participants
"Linda is confident in what she is sharing. She knows the material well and is able to help individualize information. She provides a good balance of face-to-face, media usage, interactive, and individual assignments."
"Linda speaks clearly. I like her listening skills and applications to each person’s special requests."
"The workshops all followed a logical sequence making it easy."
"Linda has a very positive approach and I received a sense of self-worth that 'I CAN do this'.”
"Linda's teaching style is very clear and concise."
"I most value creating a resume – putting words together for a descriptive job performance."
"Linda is easy to talk to and she listens. "
"Linda has confidence in her knowledge of the subject matter. She puts me at ease."
"The most valuable content in the workshop was interviewing and presentation skills."
"The most valuable content in the workshop was salary negotiations, interviewing skills, and practicing my 60 pitch."
"I liked everything about her teaching style and the behavioral-based questions. She helped me find the right words in a positive manner."
"I learned what 'holds me back'."
"Linda is friendly, confident, and eager to help."
"Linda has an easy, non-stressful consulting style."
"I liked her role-play from experience. It was good to practice with a partner and receive feedback and suggestions from her."
"I liked her personal interaction and suggestions. She is informative and provides good resources. A great workshop."
"I acquired a good grasp of my transferable self-skills. The networking and job search strategies was most valuable."
"The format (power point presentation, lecture, and participation) made it easy to learn."
"The creative examples of resumes and cover letters were helpful."
"I feel more confident in my references."
"Linda is patient and consistent."
"Linda provides clear modeling to illustrate points or responses to questions and provides positive reinforcement."
"Linda was able to provide seamless leadership... innovative in developing ideas
and rolling out programs and communications. Linda has demonstrated the
ability… to build trust, impart information and knowledge, and empower people
to transition through a serious personal loss and move forward with their lives.
...extremely knowledgeable in the many facets of career counseling,
development, and planning.
Linda helped many candidates through some tough personal decision points in
terms of their overall career strategy.
...a true professional who holds herself to high standards of excellence in all
aspects of her life."
- Pat Keene, KI Project Director, Outplacement
Services
"Linda's professional counseling helped me find a great job within my
severance period. Ms. Rolie is extremely professional in her performance and
her experience helped me achieve my goals."
- Norm Hardy, Manager, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Company
"Career Services has been very flexible in packaging outplacement
services that are affordable without sacrificing quality. I am impressed by Linda
Rolie's career transition workbook and corresponding PowerPoint training slides.
She possesses the ability to quickly analyze the strengths and weaknesses of
employees' job skills, as well as identify strengths and weaknesses in
personality traits and behavioral characteristics.
Those using her services-classified support staff, administrators, and
faculty-have dropped in to tell me what a positive impact she has had on their
self-confidence."
- Deborah Frierson, Director Human Resource Services,
Southern Oregon University
"I found Linda Rolie to exhibit profound professionalism and targeted
creativity at a time of personal/professional chaos and uncertainty."
- Jo Lynn Barnicoat-Thomas, Regional Sales Director
Dex Media, an RH Donnelley Company
"Linda Rolie's positive attitude and career transition expertise brought relief
for what might otherwise have been a very stressful time. Now, instead of
feeling 'axed' due to budget cuts, I feel like I am presented with an opportunity
to make wanted changes in my life."
- Robin Parsons, Communications, Schneider
Museum of Art
Outplacement Feedback
St. Anthony Foundation participants, San Francisco, CA
“I like the flexibility and accommodating training style.”
“Do not change a thing in the content of the sessions.”
“These two trainers have great listening skills!”
“The teaching style is always supportive and very helpful.”
“Open-minded and a wealth of information.”
“Willingness to explain and questions are answered clearly.”
“On our level!”
“ Very personal and pleasant. I like the interaction. Good job.”
“Linda was very good helping me recognize and identify my transferable skills. My confidence in the interview process improved.”
“Linda shows enthusiasm and positivity. She is an advocate for healthy transition.”
“Her energy and positive attitudes greatly aided my perspective and job change.”
“I like Linda’s continual references to individuals’ job skills.”
“I like her open, engaging style.”
“Linda models excellent behaviors.”
“Linda’s positivity and encouragement are easy to work with.”
St. Anthony Foundation,
San Francisco and Petaluma, CA
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