RiseSmart featured in Entrepreneur as recession-beating startup
RiseSmart’s corporate outplacement solution, Transition Concierge, was featured in an article last week at Entrepreneur.com. Here’s an excerpt from the piece, about startups that are succeeding despite the current recession –
Sanjay Sathe’s personal experience as both a laid-off employee and an executive who managed layoffs led him to start Transition Concierge — one of the first outplacement agencies to operate solely online.
“I was prompted to look at the outplacement industry that has been offering the same type of service and the same quality of service over the last 20 or 30 years while the rest of the world has changed,” Sathe says…
[Transition Concierge] seeks to merge a high-tech approach with personal attention by using “transition specialists,” who facilitate customized professional resume and cover letter writing, career-related web seminars, weekly job leads e-mails and information on local career-related events.
“They kept tabs on me. I was really impressed,” says Jann Heringer, a Sacramento, Calif. resident whose employer contracted with Transition Concierge after a round of layoffs.
“It was important because I was jobless and I’m older and I was horrified,” says Heringer, who found another healthcare job by browsing the HR pages of companies featured in her job leads e-mails.
Read the full story — then learn more about Transition Concierge’s transition services.
