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Outplacement services are employer-sponsored career transition programs that support employees who are leaving an organization due to a layoff, reduction in force, restructuring, merger, acquisition, site closure, or voluntary separation. A high-quality outplacement program pairs each departing employee with a professional career coach and provides resume development, LinkedIn optimization, interview preparation, job-search strategy, networking guidance, and offer negotiation support — until that person lands a new role.

Relevante is coaching-led, not platform-led. Every participant is matched with one dedicated Certified Career Coach who stays with them from kickoff through reemployment — no shared pool, no rotating roster, no chatbot. There is no 3-, 6-, or 12-month time cap; coaching continues until the participant lands. Employers pay only when an employee onboards and accepts services. There are no setup fees, no minimums, and no platform subscriptions.

Roughly 80% of actively engaged participants secure a new role within three months, and Relevante's 2025 participant Net Promoter Score is 74 across 1,045 surveyed participants. Detailed comparisons are available for LHH, Korn Ferry, and Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Relevante uses a simple two-tier, per-onboarded-participant pricing model. There are no setup fees, no minimum commitments, no platform fees, and no per-session or per-deliverable charges. Employers are invoiced only when an employee onboards and accepts services.

Each tier is all-inclusive and covers coaching until reemployment, resume and LinkedIn rebuild, unlimited mock interviews, accessibility accommodations, employer communications support, and full audit-quality reporting. Contact us for a tailored proposal sized to your population and timing.

Relevante's standard is to make first contact with each referred employee within 24 to 48 hours of receiving the referral. The Services Agreement is executed via DocuSign, no integration with the employer's IT systems is required, and there is no proprietary platform to provision. This is the normal operating mode at every engagement size — from a single executive separation to multi-cohort reductions of several hundred employees.

Yes. Relevante's program includes a 100% Placement Guarantee at no additional charge. The guarantee is included in the per-participant fee — it is not an upcharge or premium tier. Coaching continues, with the same dedicated coach, until the participant secures a new role, completes a deliberate next-chapter transition such as a phased retirement or consulting practice, or voluntarily exits the program.

Until they land. Relevante does not impose 3-, 6-, or 12-month caps. A participant who lands in 30 days completes the program in 30 days. A participant who needs 4.5 months in a difficult market segment receives 4.5 months of coaching at the same intensity with the same dedicated coach. There is no tier downshift after 90 days and no transition to a self-service portal.

Approximately 80% of actively engaged participants secure a new role within three months. Relevante's 2025 Net Promoter Score is 74, based on a survey of 1,045 participants — top-tier participant satisfaction at a statistically robust sample size. More than 90% of Relevante's corporate clients refer their displaced employees back to Relevante year over year. Sixty-plus verified, named participant testimonials across 10 industries are publicly available and link to each participant's LinkedIn profile for independent verification.

Yes. Relevante's coaches are Certified Career Coaches with an average of 15 to 25 years of corporate recruiting, HR leadership, and career coaching experience. Credentials on the bench include Certified Career Coach designations, Certified Executive Coach credentials, CIRRC (Certified Inbound Recruiter Resume Consultant), SHRM-CP / SHRM-SCP and HRCI (PHR / SPHR) certifications, MBA and HR-related master's degrees, and direct healthcare-system Chief Human Resources Officer experience.

Coaches operate at an active caseload of no more than 25 participants each — substantially below the industry norm for platform-driven programs. Meet our featured coaches.

Relevante provides outplacement services across all 50 U.S. states through a virtual-first delivery model using Microsoft Teams, phone, and email — with no proprietary participant portal required. On-site support is available for notification day, group briefings, and manager preparation at the employer's option.

Relevante also supports U.S.-based employers with employees in other countries, with limited exceptions where U.S. law restricts services.

Relevante serves all major industries, with deep functional benches in healthcare and life sciences, financial services, information technology, industrial and manufacturing, energy, utilities, consumer staples, consumer discretionary, communication services, materials, real estate, and nonprofit organizations. Verified, named participant testimonials span 10 industries.

Yes. Relevante supports VP through C-suite leaders alongside professional, technical, frontline, and operational populations. Executive participants are matched with coaches whose backgrounds include executive search, large-organization HR leadership, and direct C-suite experience — including a former healthcare-system Chief Human Resources Officer. Executive coaching includes confidential search strategy, executive resume positioning, board and advisory exploration, and executive-package negotiation.

Both. There is no minimum participant commitment. Relevante supports a single sensitive executive transition with the same dedicated-coach model used for multi-cohort reductions of several hundred employees. Pricing is per onboarded participant, which makes the model economically appropriate for nonprofits, mid-market, and small employers as well as Fortune 1000 organizations.

AI is used in narrowly scoped, supervised ways to assist coaches — for resume ATS-readability and keyword analysis, LinkedIn optimization review, interview-question generation for mock prep, and market and compensation reference. There is no AI chatbot, no AI coach substitute, no algorithmic job matching, and no AI-driven participant scoring. Coaching is delivered by humans.

No participant PII or client confidential information is submitted to public or consumer AI services, and no participant data is contributed to AI training datasets.

Relevante's documentation discipline supports EEOC, OFCCP, ADEA / OWBPA, ADA, Section 1557, and WARN Act obligations. Every referred employee receives the same uniform program offering at their tier — never differentiated by a protected characteristic.

Relevante produces a consistency report on request showing every referred employee with outreach dates, onboarding status, and reason codes — the artifact most directly useful in an OFCCP compliance review or EEOC charge response. Records are retained for 7 years from program close.

Reporting is purpose-built for four employer audiences: operating HR, executive leadership, Legal / Compliance / Internal Audit, and Finance. Standard cadence includes weekly operating reports during the first 90 days, monthly executive reports throughout the engagement, quarterly business reviews, and ad-hoc audit and compliance extracts within five business days of request. Format options include PDF executive summaries, Excel detail extracts, and presentation-ready slides.

How an organization treats its departing employees signals to remaining staff, candidates, customers, and the community what the organization stands for. High-quality outplacement reduces the risk of negative coverage and social-media criticism, protects the morale of remaining staff (a documented factor in voluntary attrition following a reduction), supports the candidate pipeline employers will need again, and contributes to the good-faith record relevant in any subsequent EEOC, OFCCP, or wrongful-termination matter.

Relevante provides leader talking points, manager notification toolkits, HR coordinator playbooks, and remaining-staff communication guidance as part of every engagement.

Participants describe Relevante's coaches as grounding, calming, encouraging, and consistently available — including outside business hours during interview and offer cycles. The program is one-to-one and unhurried; there is no portal to learn, no credentials to manage, and no required device. A participant with only a personal phone receives the same program as a director with a laptop. Read more about the employee experience or browse the 60+ verified participant testimonials.

The primary financial return is unemployment cost avoidance. Each week of search time eliminated against the employer's state unemployment insurance reserve is recoverable program value. A reasonable rule of thumb: if a program reduces average time-to-placement by even 4 to 6 weeks across the engaged population versus an unsupported search, the unemployment-cost savings alone typically exceed the program's total fees — before legal-risk avoidance, employer brand impact, remaining-staff morale, and the candidate-pipeline value are counted.

Outplacement is typically engaged before notifications begin so coach capacity, communication materials, manager training, and participant intake are ready when employees are informed. Relevante's standard practice is to begin participant outreach within 24 to 48 hours of receiving each referral. The model supports single-cohort, phased-cohort, and rolling-intake structures, scaled to the employer's notification plan.