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Outplacement Service

Outplacement Service in Manchester

 At Employment King we offer tailor made outplacement services.

Company redundancies, merges and restructuring can be mentally hard on employees at all levels. Using an impartial outplacement service can make this transaction easier and more motivational.

Employment King Career Coaches are experienced, trained and qualified in a mixture of IAG (information. Advice and Guidance) NLP Life Coaching and Personality Type Assessments.

We offer Group and One-to-One sessions, delivered in your workplace:

Outplacement Services  

CV Writing Service

The ability to design and write interview winning CVs is the key tool for any job hunter no matter how many years experience you posses, the level of your qualifications or the seniority of your position.

CV writing session will be tailored to your needs and can cover:

  • 10 Mistakes that Kill CVs
  • How to target a CV to each application
  • CV that win job interviews

CV Writing Service

  • Each CV will be tailored made
  • Each CV will come with a FREE Cover Letter Template Pack
  • You will also receive a FREE copy of The Secrets of Employment E-Book

Psychometric Assessments   

 We use Myers Briggs Personality Type Assessments to help you choose your next career role based on your personality, motivational traits and potential stress indicators

  • Each participant will be sent a FREE 12 page personality type profile e-book
  • We will match career choices to your personality

Advance Interview Training

 As a specialist in Interview Coaching we offer a variety of interview coaching session for promotional opportunities and redundancies.

  • Influencing the Interview – using psychology and NLP to pass job interviews
  • Interviewer Rapport Building Techniques
  • Answering Tricky Interview Questions
  • How to come across as  an expert
  • Beating the competition
  • Preparation, Planning and Passing Interview  

Career Coaching

 With a background in careers advice and coaching, we can work with your employees to help them understand their strengths and key skills, supporting them to gain promotions and new career ideas.

  • Career Advice
  • Career Values and Dislikes – what would be your ideal role?
  • Understanding Job Profiles and How to Gain Job Offers
  • Matching Skills to career ideas and promotional opportunities
  • Understanding the local labour market (LMI) and re-training

Motivational and Confidence Building Training

 For many redundancies and restructures can be demoralising, employment king specialise in motivation and confidence building. We offer a wide range of services using a mixture of NLP and Life Coaching:

  • Life Coaching Sessions
  • Motivational Training
  • Confidence Building

Job Shops and Surgeries

 We design industry specific job shops and surgeries which can cover all aspects of the job application process:

  • Where can I find work?
  • Influencing the Interview
  • Internet Job Hunting
  • Career Planning
  • How to Sell Yourself

Career E-Products

 We have a wide range of career e-products that you can purchase; we will often give e-products away depending on which of the above services you want to purchase

  • Secrets of Employment E-Book and FREE CV Template Pack – a guide to securing more job offers covering the whole job application process from job searching to passing job interviews.
  • Tricky Questions, Killer Answers – over 60 Interview questions and answers. Learn what answers employers are looking for and why they ask each individual question, with example answers for all interview questions.
  • CV Secrets – a FREE e-book designed to help you gain more interviews by writing amazing CVs
  • Additional: We have a wide range of e-products from job logs to CV Templates, many are FREE

Remember we will tailor make group and one-to-one interview and career coaching sessions for your staff; we also offer ongoing e-mail support and additional follow careers session if required. For more information use the contact form below:

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    5 Big Mistakes Depressed People Make

    5 Big Mistakes Depressed People Make

    Research has shown that depressed people continue to make the same mistakes, taking them deeper into the spiraling circle of depression. To break this loop and to feel more confident, understand the 5 common mistakes and use the suggestions to change the direction of your life and your confidence levels.

    1. Dressing to Success Depress

    Psychological studies have proven that the way you dress affects your confidence levels. When you wear, old, scruffy and/or dirty unfitting clothes you will automatically feel down. Whereas the opposite happens when you wear new, fitted and stylist clothes, you feel more confident about yourself. In actual fact your physiology changes when you believe you look good. The same rule applies with your good or bad hair style, your personal hygiene levels and your fitness/health.

    2. Heavy Head

    Your mind and body work as one and the wording people use evidences this “I’m feeling down” – head hanging down. You can see depressed/emotional people by their posture and body language; slumped shoulders, lethargic movements and head lowered – looking towards the floor, these are all signs off people in a negative state. The interesting fact here is, if you physically stand up, hold you head up high, make eye contact with others, you will automatically feel more confident – this is instantaneous.

    3. Negative Self-Talk

    One thing all negative people have in common is that they all use negative self talk, sometime without really realizing it, often looking for the negatives in every situation. This has been learnt overtime as no-one is born negative. To overcome this you can re-train your subconscious mind by purposely looking at all the positives in every situation in your home, work, activities/events and in every day situations. Start now by listing all of your skills, strengths and qualities. If your negative self-talk is getting you down book an NLP Life Coach Session to delete this crippling negative self talk in just one session.

    4. Wanting Everything, Getting Nothing

    Many negative people will want everything “I want to be a millionaire, I want a new Car, I want a pay rise, I want a good life, I want to be happy” and want it now. I agree it is good to have goals, but many negative people will want everything Now and are not willing to wait, when they don’t achieve their goals they put it down to their personal abilities – blaming themselves. Confident people are happy to work hard for their goals and will view every knock-back as an opportunity to improve. To overcome this start by having small goals – if you want a new car, the first goal should be to pick which model you want, your second goal would be to decide how much you are willing to spend on a car, etc. As you achieve your small goals your big goals will fall into place naturally.

    5. It’s All About Me.

    Do you focus on you? Many unhappy people go into situations looking at what they can get out of it, what’s in-it for them? They don’t think about completing selfless acts, helping others for free and making a good contribution when there is nothing in it for them. But there missing out, as the more you contribute through volunteering, giving someone at the till 50p who has gone over their predicted bill and has no spare change or helping someone cross the road, you will feel good about yourself and this feeling increases your positive emotions and personal confidence.

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    The 5 worst CV tips ever

    I love the Internet, everything you need to know you can find out there on the world wide wed from how to write a targeted CV to do-it yourself brain surgery. One of the problems with the web is the quality of the advice given on websites and blogs, as people with various degrees of knowledge and expertise can share their thoughts and advice with you.

    I have found the 5 worst CV tips and advice out there

    1. Telling the world about your life; I have found several articles on CV writing telling you to tell your life history – even if your 55 years old! In this case your CV will be 10-20 pages long which mean no employer will ever read it. A good CV will highlight your key skills, qualities and experiences required by your potential employer, this means your CV should be a maximum of two pages long.  

    2. My Career Goal is…: recording your career goal on your CV job profile is a big no-no. Employers will know what position you are applying for as you need to send a targeted covering letter with every CV. The CV profile is designed to highlight your key strengths, selling point and the value you can bring to the organisation – this is a selling paragraph.

    3. Corporate Jargon: so many job hunters fill their CV with corporate jargon and acronyms, even when applying for a position in a new career/industry. Remember in many large organisations the HR team will first read your CV – will they fully understand the jargon you have recorded?  Your CV does need to highlight your industry expertise but should not be worded so the employer (or who ever reads your CV) is put off.

    4. Small font means more information: I once read an article from a professional CV writing service advising job hunters to use font size 8-10 so the candidate can fit more “selling” points onto the CV. A key point to any winning CV is to make the CV presentable and easy to read. You also have to take into consideration that many organisations often print off your CV – will your new employer be able to read a CV with size 8 font?

    5. Adding your photo: more and more job hunters are adding their photo to a CV, and I would ask – would a photo increase your chance of an interview? The answer is no and I would add that a photo can take up a large amount of space on your CV. We complete a large amount of research on behalf of our clients and when questioned, employers inform us again and again that they prefer a CV without a photo (but prefer a linked-in profile with an image) the exception is a CV for applying for Security and Acting professions.

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    Types of Interview?

    How Many Types of Job Interview Can You Think Off?

     

    As many of you will already know, there are many different types and styles of job interviews.  You need to understand why employers use different interviews to help you prepare for them. The explanation of each below is to give you an overview of the different ‘types’ of interviews, if you are invited to one of these different ‘types’ of interviews you will now know more about them and will feel more confident about attending them

     

    • Screening Interview

    A screening interview is a brief interview used by employers to quickly and efficiently eliminate unsuitable or unqualified interviewees. This is usually carried out over the telephone and tends to focus on confirming and clarifying that you have to essential minimum requirements needed for the job you are applying for (Essential requirements will be found in the Job spec of the application pack).  Employers use this to save time and money during the interview process.

    • Speculative On the spot Interview

    As we said above if you apply for a job speculatively by walking into a business, you have to be prepared to have an On the Spot Interview. This interview will be informal and unstructured as the interview/manager would have not prepared any questions and again wants to see if you have the minimum requirements for the job you are applying for before offering you a full interview.

    • Telephone/webcam interview

    You are likely to have a telephone interview for all jobs that requires you to use the telephone as the main job duty. Telephone and webcam interviews can be used when the interviewee cannot attend an initial interview (Perhaps due to the job role being overseas) This type of interview again is used to save recruitment costs and in order to decide which candidates they want to interview face to face.

    • Face to Face Interview

    This is the most common interview; the interview can sometimes be informal as only one person is involved. The interviewer will often have a series of prepared questions designed to find out if you have the skills, qualities and knowledge for the position you are applying for. Often the manager or HR representative will carry out this interview.

    • Panel interviews

    In this type of interview you will be questioned by several people making up the panel. The actual number of interviewers can vary depending on the company (some companies use two person panel interviews because the manager has not interviewed before) On the panel they may have an expert/manager who knows the job you are applying for and will coordinate the interview and questions. Or the panel (normally when this is a panel of 2 or 3) will co-ordinate the questions between them. Ensure you look at each member of the panel and involve them during the interview.

    • Follow Up Interview

    This often happens when you are applying with large companies who have a big recruitment drive on. Only a small number of interviewees will be asked to attend a follow up interview. If you are one of them then this is a great sign -it shows you that an employer is very interested in you!

    This extract was taken from The Secrets of Employment

    • Group Interview

    This is an informal interview with a large number of other interviewees often for customer service based roles. You will be asked discuss a topic or complete a problem solving exercise. A group interview can last anywhere from two hours to a whole day. Interviewers will be watching for your contribution and your role within the group. Consider what skills they would like to see from you. As a natural leader you may be great at organising and getting the task in hand done but you might need to be aware of using your listening skills and allowing others to talk.

    •  The Sequential Interview

    Sequential interviews are where an applicant is interviewed in stages. You may have to complete certain tests including Literacy and Numeracy. You may be asked to attend interviews with several people, with each interviewer asking questions relating to a different aspect of the job role.

    As you can see there are several interviews that you may be asked to attend, as long as you are prepared and understand the job you are applying for you will do well. As all the questions/exercises/test you are asked to complete will be relevant to the job you are applying for.

    If you want to learn more about passing interviews using interview and NLP techniques download The Secrets of Employment Now

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    How to Tell if Someone is Lying

    Spotting Liars for Skill for Interveiwers 

    We have had such a good response from the recent article How to read micro facial expressions with people wanting to learn more about spotting liars, that we have written a follow-up article to teach you how to spot liars.

    WARNING: Before going any further and learning how to really know if someone is lying to you, you first need to ask yourself – do I really want to know? Remember sometimes ignorance is bliss and knowing that someone is lying to you can HURT you.

    The techniques you are about to learn are powerful and are used in specialist industries such as: police force, security experts, M15, immigration officials and with CEO’s in multi-million-pound business deals

    Lie to Me – The Basics

    As mention in the last article, how to read micro facial expressions, when reading people you need to look for clusters and don’t make opinions on just one expression or body movement.

    Body language – when being truthful people will use a wide range of hand expressions and movements as people often talk with their hands. Liars will unconsciously limit their arm movements looking stiffer than natural

    Touching Lips – when lying we unconsciously try and stop the lie from coming out by covering our mouths, liars will also touch their nose or ear when lying.

    Red Faced – liars tend to get hot “hot under the collar” is a common phrase used. Liars can become red-faced or may play with their collar to cool down, others will scratch their neck when lying – remember look for clusters

    Moving Away – liars will often feel uncomfortable lying to your face and will unconsciously turn their body away from yours wanting to get away quickly

    Micro Expressions – liars will give away their lie through micro-expressions (for full details click the link above) when faking an emotion the expression is often limited – look at these two pictures of the man smiling:

     

    Which one is faking?

    The picture on the right is a true smile, the secret here is the crow’s feet on the eyes- to learn more about facial expressions click the above links or read this book by the expert in facial expressions Paul Ekman (above) – CLICK IMAGE

    Reading People

    Timing – often a liar will say something and then follow this up with an emotion or gesture, while truthful people will say something and make the gesture at the same time.  Check this at Christmas when people are opening their presents they will say “I love it” and then make a smile – a sign that they don’t truly “love it”

    Out of Time – Gestures are often off pace when lying, emotional displays are delayed and then suddenly stop

    Defensive – a guilty person will often get defensive in conversation, whereas innocent people often become offensive

    Building Barriers – Liars will often want to hide away from you, protecting them and will build barriers between you and them; this could be sitting on a chair the wrong way round so the back of the chair is a barrier between you and them. They also use a book or other object and hold this in front of them.

    Hearing Lies

    Copy Cat – liars will often copy the exact words you use to answer a question “did you steal the spare change?” Liar: “No, I did not steal the spare change”

    Sticking to the Facts – truthful people will often tell a story and as the story is progressing will naturally go off on a tangent, liars will tell a “well-planned story” in a more factual way with any additional “add-ons”

    Not Answering the Question – many people don’t like to lie, and instead of lying will answer a different question or just imply an answer

    Difficult Silences – Liars will often want to fill silences

    Distancing Language – liars will often use distancing language, with Bill Clinton famously saying “I did not have sex with that women”
    rather than saying her name, he distanced himself using the word “that” to avoid thinking about the person/situation.

    Eye Accessing Cues 

    When asking a person a question you can watch the person’s eye movements to detect if the person is accessing an emotion or remembering or constructing a sound or image.

    To practice this, ask a friend the questions below and check their eye movement against the chart (for some the eye accessing cues will be opposite) When questioning a liar, you can ask the person several truths to gain a baseline and then ask them a question to see if they are lying (accessing constructed images)

    Remember as we all detecting lie techniques you must look for clusters.

    Looking Up and to the right-Visual Remembered

    What is the colour of the shirt you wore yesterday?

    Which of your friends has the shortest hair?

    Looking up and to the left-Visual Constructed

    What would your room look like if it were painted yellow with big purple
    circles?

    Can you imagine the top half of a tiger on the bottom half of an elephant?

    Looking to the Right (towards ears) -Auditory Remembered

    What does your best friend’s voice sound like?

    Which is louder, your doorbell or your telephone?

    Looking to the Left (towards ears) – Auditory Constructed

    What will your voice sound like in 10 years?

    What would it sound like if you played your two favorite pieces of music at the same time?

    Looking down to the Right – Auditory Digital

    What is something you continually tell yourself?

    What are your thoughts about this article?

    Looking Down to the Left-Kinaesthetic

    What does it feel like to walk barefoot on a cool sandy beach?

    What does it feel like when you rub your fingers on sandpaper?

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    I Keep Failing Job Interviews

    Do you keep failing job interviews?

     

    Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” This is true for many job hunters who continuously fail job interviews, they continue to make the same mistakes in every job interview.

    Employment King has teamed up with leading employers to discover What type of job interviewees continuously fail job interviews and our research has found that 10 types of job interviewees will always be refused job offers from all job interviews. Read this article and make sure you don’t fall into any of these 10 categories.

    If you want to win more job offers through passing  job interviews, download this mini interview guide for FREE and don’t fall into one of these 10 categories; 10 people who will never pass a job interview.

    What to do next? Click the link below for your free PDF Mini Interview Guide

    Are you one of these 10 people who will never pass a job interview

    If you have a job interview coming up and you feel scared and nervous, what can you do? I agree some job interviewers can ask some Tricky Questions which means you need to know Killer Answers to each interview question Tricky Questions, Killer Answers

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