At DMA Group, one of the most effective tools we continue to integrate into our Career Advancement and Outplacement Programmes is DISC profiling, embedded within a structured, human-centred coaching framework.

In career transition and outplacement work, impact is best measured not by promises made, but by outcomes experienced. One of the most meaningful ways to reflect on the value of outplacement and career coaching support is through the voices of those who have lived the process. One of our recent outplacement participants shared the testimonial below, reflecting on what holistic, practical, and deeply engaged career transition support looks like in practice.

Co-authored by Ross Mengel & Alexa Stafford, this article shares insights on how to support everyone involved and affected by workforce restructuring in an organisation, including managers and colleagues remaining behind.

This excerpt from "A Bend in The Road - A Guide to Career Transition" provides 468 verbs to consider using, when describing achievements.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a world-renowned psychiatrist, first introduced the concept of the "five stages of grief" in her 1969 book On...

It is an incredible achievement to have run a successful job search and to have received an offer of employment from a potential...

Approaches to job search are either reactive or proactive, with each having varying degrees of success. Here we explore the merits of each.

The DISC profiler is an assessment tool that helps us understand a person’s behavioural style in the workplace from a number of...

This timeline highlights some of the events since 2002 that have shaped the Outplacement, Career Transition and Retrenchment Support...

The 0.6% drop in South Africa’s unemployment rate from 34.5% (2022 Q1) to 33.9% (2022 Q2) as reported by Stats SA this week has sparked a...

The “great resignation” and “great re-evaluation” are global phenomena that have impacted on organisations in many ways, from shifts in...

Outplacement, also known as career transition or retrenchment support, helps an organisation plan its staffing levels and continue to...

In the context of career transition and retrenchment support, the benefits of group outplacement workshops and programmes are many and...

This "Thank You" note recently came from a client in response to one of our regular updates on the progress being made by five of their...