Outplacement has had its day.
Traditional outplacement — a portal login, a CV template, a few group calls — was never built for an AI-shaped market. Hireovate is the modern alternative for employers in Ireland and the UK: recruiter-grade market intelligence, practical AI-era tools and experienced human guidance that help the people you’re letting go leave ready to compete, and keep your employer brand intact.
Enterprise Solutions for Companies
Moving beyond generic outplacement to deliver active, intelligence-led transition support for impacted employees.
Job Search Agents Workshop
Group training
One day that changes how people look for work. They learn where the jobs are in the AI economy, how to prompt well, and how to orchestrate their own swarm of job agents.
Includes:
- Full-day facilitated workshop, on site or online
- Where the jobs are: a deep dive on demand in the AI economy
- How to prompt, and how to set up an AI agent
- Three job agents built per person: Career Coach, Research & Sourcing, Mock Interview
- A rewritten CV summary and LinkedIn headline options
- A set of expert prompts to keep using after the day
- Each person needs a Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus account
- Open classes for groups of 10 or more people affected by redundancy
Workshop +
Career Offensive
Individual contributors & managers
For companies that want to go beyond a single day. The workshop gives your cohort the skills; Career Offensive adds a 60-day guided search for each person.
Give your impacted individual contributors and managers the same Career Offensive that professionals buy for themselves: sustained, personalised market intelligence and one standard of care for your core team.
Includes:
- Everything in the workshop for the cohort
- 60 days, with 3 Market Scans and 3 x 45-minute strategy calls per person
- Target company & decision-maker mapping, with contact details
- Deep-dive dossiers on priority companies: teams, leaders, funding and hiring patterns
- Outreach to decision-makers, and LinkedIn and CV repositioning
- Interview preparation grounded in real panel expectations
- Analysis of newly minted unicorns for high-upside equity opportunities
- Scheduled accountability checkpoints and execution prompts
Workshop +
Executive Command
Senior Directors & Above
For restructures involving Directors, VPs, and C-suite departures where the reputational stakes and career complexities are highest.
For VPs, SVPs, C-suite leaders, General Managers, Country Leads, and senior Directors navigating confidential, complex, or high-stakes career moves.
Includes:
- Everything in the workshop for the cohort
- 120 days of high-touch, dedicated transition advisory
- Company dossier packs
- Contact enrichment for decision-makers across target companies
- Executive positioning
- Board/C-suite interview preparation
- Offer negotiation war room
- Salary, bonus, RSU and option benchmarking
- Equity modelling and package comparison
- Cross-border, relocation, tax and legal referral support
- Reference orchestration
- Executive accountability partner: proactive WhatsApp nudges, calendar items, and daily/weekly execution checkpoints
How pricing works
Every programme starts with the Job Search Agents Workshop at €999 / £849 / $1,099 per person, with a minimum of 10 people. Career Offensive and Executive Command are priced on request, because the right shape depends on cohort size and seniority. Running more than one wave? Repeat bookings are discounted.
Affected by redundancy as a group of 10 or more, with or without an employer booking? We run open classes too. Get in touch to discuss your cohort.
* Senior Director level and above usually move to the bespoke Executive Command tier.
Your people are leaving.
Make sure they leave ready.
A practical one-day workshop where the people leaving learn where the jobs are in the AI economy and how to orchestrate their own swarm of job agents, so they land faster and your employer brand stays intact.
Outplacement hasn't kept up.
Most transition support still looks the way it did in 2015. Generic CV workshops. Group sessions on “networking.” A portal login that nobody uses after week two.
Meanwhile, the job market has fundamentally changed. AI is embedded in how companies screen, assess, and hire. Candidates who can’t use modern tools are falling behind — not because they lack experience, but because they lack fluency.
Your departing employees don’t need motivation talks. They need practical skills, working tools, and a system they can execute from day one.
One day. Three job agents.
A complete job search system.
The Hireovate Job Search Agents Workshop is a facilitated, hands-on workshop for groups of professionals navigating career transition. Delivered in person or remotely, it compresses weeks of fragmented preparation into a single, structured day.
Participants don’t just learn about AI. They build with it, using Claude or ChatGPT, and learn to run their agents together as a swarm, each one handling a different part of the search. Each person needs a Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus account. By 4:30 pm, every person in the room has three working job agents, a rewritten CV summary, LinkedIn headline options, a company research dossier, interview preparation, and a set of expert prompts to keep using.
This is not a lecture. It is not a webinar. It is five hours of guided, practical work with a facilitator who has spent 25 years hiring at the companies your people want to work for.
What every participant leaves with.
Personal Career Coach Agent
An AI assistant pre-loaded with their CV, target roles, and career context — persistent across every conversation. Like having a recruiter on call 24/7.
Research & Sourcing Agent
Finds the companies and the people to approach, and builds a structured company dossier in minutes. Run it five times a week and that is 25 dossiers in a month.
Mock Interview Agent
An AI interviewer that asks realistic questions, waits for answers, gives honest feedback, and scores each response out of 10.
Improved CV & LinkedIn
A rewritten CV summary aligned to their target role and three LinkedIn headline options — built during the workshop using their own materials.
Interview & Outreach Prep
A company brief, predicted questions, a STAR answer, and a personalised outreach message — for a real target company.
Expert Prompts
A tested set of expert prompts for research, outreach and interview preparation, to keep the swarm working long after the day.
The day at a glance.
In Person
Your office or offsite venue. Facilitator travels to you. Best for cohorts who benefit from shared energy and real-time coaching.
Remote
Delivered live via Zoom or Google Meet. Same content, same exercises, same facilitator attention. Best for distributed teams or multi-site restructures.
Built for employers who take transition seriously.
Companies managing a restructure
You’re reducing headcount and you want to do it well. The workshop gives departing employees practical tools and genuine career momentum. Your people leave equipped. Your employer brand leaves intact.
HR and People teams
You need transition support that’s modern, practical, and credible. The workshop slots into your existing redundancy programme as a standalone day or a complement to coaching and outplacement.
Outplacement and career transition firms
You have the coaching and emotional support. What you don’t have is a structured AI readiness module. The workshop plugs that gap — white-label it, co-deliver it, or refer your clients to us.
VC and PE portfolio talent teams
When a portfolio company restructures, your reputation travels with the departing employees. The workshop protects that reputation by giving impacted people something genuinely useful.
Led by a recruiter, not a trainer.
The workshop is facilitated by Declan Fitzgerald — founder of Hireovate and a 25-year executive recruitment leader. Declan has hired thousands of professionals across Microsoft, HubSpot, Meta, LinkedIn, and multiple startups.
He has been made redundant three times and led teams through reductions three times. This programme is delivered by someone who has been on both sides of the table — who knows what hiring managers actually look for, how AI is changing the process, and what separates candidates who land from those who drift.
Everything in one engagement.
- Full-day facilitated workshop (10:30 am – 4:30 pm)
- Digital workbook with all prompts, agent guides, and templates
- Anonymised post-programme feedback summary
- Certificate of completion for each participant (on request)
- Responsible AI guidance aligned to EU AI Act principles
Common questions.
Is there a minimum number of participants required?
Yes. A class needs a minimum of 10 people. We also run open classes for groups of 10 or more people affected by redundancy, with or without an employer booking.
Do participants need any technical background?
No. The workshop is designed for non-technical professionals and everything is taught from scratch. Each person needs a Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus account.
What do participants need to bring?
A laptop or tablet, a Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus account, a digital copy of their CV, and one job description for a role they’re interested in. Everything else is provided.
Can we run this for multiple cohorts?
Yes. Many employers run the workshop for each wave of a restructure. We offer discounted pricing for repeat bookings, so get in touch to discuss.
Can you deliver alongside our existing outplacement provider?
Absolutely. The workshop complements coaching and outplacement by adding a practical AI skills layer that most providers don’t offer. We’re happy to coordinate.
Can you customise for our industry or team?
Yes. For cohorts of 15 or more, we tailor examples, target companies, and exercises to your sector and the seniority level of participants. Customisation is included in the cohort price.
What happens after the workshop?
Participants who want deeper, individual support can move on to a Market Scan or the Career Offensive at a preferred rate.
Ready to give your people a real advantage?
Book a 20-minute briefing call. We’ll walk you through the programme, answer your questions, and scope the right format for your team.
Or email [email protected]
Outplacement in Ireland & the UK — common questions.
What is outplacement?
Outplacement is the support an employer provides to departing employees to help them find their next role. Traditionally that means a career portal, CV templates and a few group coaching sessions — a model built for a slower job market that, for most senior people, no longer does enough.
What is the modern alternative to outplacement?
Hireovate. Instead of a passive portal, departing employees get a personalised Market Scan of where they fit and who is hiring, practical AI job agents built in a one-day Job Search Agents Workshop, and guidance from a recruiter with 25 years’ experience — so they leave with real momentum, not just a login.
Do you provide outplacement support in Ireland and the UK?
Yes. Hireovate works with employers across Ireland, the UK and the US. The Job Search Agents Workshop is delivered in person or live online, so distributed and multi-site teams are fully covered.
How is Hireovate different from traditional outplacement?
Traditional outplacement helps people process the exit. Hireovate helps them compete — with recruiter-grade market intelligence, warm routes into roles before they are advertised, and AI tools they actually use. The result is a working job-search system, not a resource library.
How much does outplacement cost with Hireovate?
It depends on cohort size and format. The Job Search Agents Workshop is €999 / £849 / $1,099 per person, with a minimum of 10 people. Career Offensive and Executive Command support are priced on request, based on cohort size and seniority. Get in touch for a quote for your team.
Can you work alongside our existing outplacement provider?
Yes. The workshop complements coaching and outplacement by adding a practical AI-readiness layer most providers don’t offer. We are happy to co-deliver or slot in as a standalone module.