The grapevine is alive and well with you workforce including those who are leave your company whether voluntarily, involuntarily or because of a layoff. Learn how you can turn former employees into brand ambassadors for your organization as well as establish a robust alumni network to build and recruit future talent from.

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5 Ways to Turn Former Employees
Into Brand Ambassadors
(even if you laid them off)
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A Little About RiseSmart
TechnologyPeopleInnovation
 100% year over year growth
 100% retention
 42 unique industries
 SMBs and Fortune 500
 80% of clients report back
 Clients land 62% faster than national average
 Ability to deliver in over 50 countries
Facts & Stats

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Approved for 1.0 HRCI Recertification Credit
HRCI program number sent to you via email
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Our Speakers
Jessica Merrell, SPHR
@blogging4jobs
Karen Stevens, SPHR
@karenlbs
Kara Yarnot
@klyarnot
#RSwebcast

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Our 5 Things
1. Build a Culture of Empowerment & Transparency
2. Facilitate Mobility
3. Communicate Authentically
4. Prioritize Redeployment
5. Provide Transitions Assistance

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#1 - Build a Culture of Empowerment
Successful companies associate workplace
empowerment directly to business success.

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#2 - Facilitate Mobility
• Career plan
• Encourage learning & development
• Technology adoption
• Make it easy to move around the organization

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#3 - Communicate Authentically
and with Transparency
75% of CEO’s believe employee communication is
the key driver to employee success.
– 2013 IBM CEO Study

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#3 - Communicate Authentically
and with Transparency
• Take time to communicate
– By planning
– Honestly
– Directly
– Details

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#4 – Prioritize Redeployment
• Skills & experience evaluation of impacted employees
• Ensure hiring managers give priority to evaluating
candidates from the redeployment initiative
• Redeployment saves the company money through
lower recruiting costs, lower training costs and saved
severance costs

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#5 - Provide Transition Assistance
• Best Practices
– Plan ahead
– Train Managers
• Communication materials
• Notification packets

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#5 - Provide Transition Assistance
RiseSmart shortens the average job search by 62%

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BONUS TIP:
How to Nurture Alumni Relationships
• Alumni communities & networks
• Alumni referral programs
• Social media – LinkedIn
• Your alumni become your rehires, your customers,
your vendors
Stay in touch with them.

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Key Takeaways
1. Empower employees to keep them feeling part of
the mission
2. Make it as easy to find a job internally as it is
externally
3. Be authentic in communications so employees feel
“in the loop”

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Key Takeaways
4. Strive to redeploy employees before eliminating
their positions
5. Provide career transition assistance to enable
departing employees to have a more effective and
efficient job search
6. Stay in touch with your alumni!

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RiseSmart Client Experience
With our four cornerstones of services, the RiseSmart
solution overcomes traditional model flaws in 4 ways:
• Consistency
• Scalability
• Affordability
• Results

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Questions?

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More About Our Speakers
• Karen Stevens, SPHR -
www.linkedin.com/in/karenlbstevens
• Jessica Merrell, SPHR - www.linkedin.com/in/jmillermerrell
• Kara Yarnot - www.linkedin.com/in/karayarnot
Sources – 2013 IBM CEO Study -
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/c-suite/csuitestudy2013/

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Approved for 1.0 HRCI Strategic Credit
HRCI program number sent to you via email
upon program completion.