I guess that’s a lesson for people – this is three years in the making… if I would have given up at 2.5 years I wouldn’t have gotten this far. We’ll see how next year goes

You just keep coming up with more great business ideas! I am happy for you and wish you the best of success in this new venture. It also occurs to me that the way Affordable Outplacement developed is largely due to your endless networking and public speaking events…and is proof that it works!

Cheers!
~Kathy

And, the outplacement industry is large (multi-billion, afaik) and has historically had strong margins (which is changing, from what I hear).

It’s interesting that the motivation for actually paying for this could be financial (for public companies, shows their nice face to a bad situation), community goodwill (imagine a firm terminating a lot of people and hurting a town’s income – I lived through that back in 1999 when I was in school), or emotional (a manager who feels bad for what has happened and wants to give their colleagues a hand in a nasty transition)…. I’m sure there are other reasons.

This will be very helpful to many laid-off workers, and should also help employers to reduce cost. The only thing I’m not sure about is whether small-to-medium sized companies would be willing to pay for such a service, given the it’s a “cost”, not a “profit seeking” activity.