People Advisory & Mobility

Outplacement Services Vietnam

Career transition support for Vietnamese restructuring and senior exits

Help for people on their way out, run by a firm whose other half fills roles in the same market every week. One coach each, a rebuilt CV and LinkedIn profile, interview practice, and visibility of the mandates our consultants are working on now. Priced per person, by programme length, or per cohort where a whole unit is going.

24+ years

of regional HR group heritage

Licensed

Recruitment Licence 6208/2024/20/SLĐTBXH-VLATLĐ

1:1

Dedicated career coach per candidate

4

Program tiers - executive / senior / mid / junior

How it works

1

Scope

The first conversation is private, with HR or whoever owns the decision. Who is leaving, at what level, why, and on what timetable. We ask separately what a good result looks like for the company and what it looks like for the individuals, because those answers diverge and a programme built as though they do not will satisfy neither. From that we propose a structure, banded per person, fixed-length, per cohort, or built to fit, and it goes into an engagement letter before anyone enrols.

2

Onboard

A coach is assigned inside five working days and stays to the end. The first session names the situation, does not sit in it, and moves to what can be done this month: what they want next, which sectors are realistic, and getting their documents into shape. There is no service desk rotating behind this.

3

Run

Weekly sessions cover search strategy, interview practice with written feedback, and how to handle the salary conversation. Running under all of it is the part a coaching firm cannot offer: our own consultants are filling roles in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and beyond this week, and people in our programmes go in front of them. That means being seen before a role is advertised and being taken through a real process by someone who closes offers for a living.

4

Close

Each programme ends in writing: what happened, whether the person placed, changed direction or is still searching, what they thought of it, and when the follow-up calls fall, usually at one month and three. Where a group went through together, the HR sponsor also gets a view across the cohort, including how the process was received by the people in it.

Outplacement in Vietnam, backed by 24+ years of recruitment heritage

Ending employment in Vietnam is a procedural exercise before it is a human one. Redundancy on restructuring grounds requires a labour usage plan, consultation with the grassroots trade union organisation, notice to the labour authority, and severance calculated on service, and an employer who treats the people part as an afterthought usually finds the process part takes longer than planned. There is also a specifically Vietnamese wrinkle: the people you are letting go will be job-hunting in a market where their peers move employers every two or three years, so a long-tenured employee can look unusual on paper and needs help explaining it. Our practice runs through People Profilers Services Vietnam Company Limited under Recruitment Licence 6208/2024/20/SLĐTBXH-VLATLĐ. What separates it from career coaching is the recruitment desk behind it: candidates are introduced to the consultants filling roles in their sector rather than merely prepared to apply.

What's included in every outplacement program

Four elements, always together: coaching, rebuilt documents, interview preparation, and access to live mandates. They are not sold apart, because the last one is what gives the first three somewhere to land. No rate card, because the structure is built around the situation.

Program scope (every candidate)

  • ✓1:1 career coaching with dedicated coach
  • ✓Professional CV & LinkedIn rewrites
  • ✓Interview preparation & salary negotiation
  • ✓Direct access to PP's live recruitment mandates

Program structures available

  • ✓Per-candidate, tiered by seniority
  • ✓Per-program packaged duration (3 / 6 / 12 months)
  • ✓Group / bulk pricing for restructurings
  • ✓Custom-scoped per engagement

Delivery commitments

  • ✓Coach assigned within 5 business days
  • ✓Weekly coaching cadence during active search
  • ✓Surfacing into live mandates within target sector
  • ✓Program close report + post-placement check-ins

Scope, fees and inclusions are documented before the first enrolment. What no provider can honestly promise is a placement date, since that sits with employers and the market. What is promised is the programme itself: a named coach, weekly contact while the search is live, documents rewritten by people who read CVs for a living, structured interview practice, and active introduction into mandates we are running.

When outplacement makes sense in Vietnam

Outplacement protects two things at once: the people leaving, and what your remaining team concludes about how you treat people. Three situations account for most of it here.

1

A restructuring that has to follow the process

Redundancies on reorganisation grounds carry consultation, notification and severance obligations that shape the timetable, not just the budget. We schedule the coaching around that sequence so people are inside the programme during their notice rather than after it, which is also when they are most employable.

2

A senior departure in a small field

Country Head and functional leadership exits, where the qualified pool in Ho Chi Minh City or the northern industrial provinces is small enough that word travels before the announcement does. Discreet positioning, introductions into our executive search desk, and mapping for candidates open to moving cities.

3

A long-tenured employee in a fast-moving market

The hardest cases here are people who stayed ten or fifteen years with one employer in a market where peers change jobs every two or three. Recruiters read that as a question rather than as loyalty, and it takes preparation to answer well. It is closeable, but not with a CV template.

The recruitment network is what separates this from career coaching. Candidates finish having been put in front of real openings, not just made ready to apply. If you need the restructuring strategy upstream, that is our HR Consultation service. If you need to rehire into the roles that opened, our Executive Search desk takes it from there.

OUTPLACEMENT

Exit support that protects the people leaving and the employer that stays

Career transition coaching and CV support · Structured around Labour Code notice and severance · Candidates surfaced to our recruitment desks

Industries & Functions We Cover

A production manager leaving an electronics plant and a finance lead leaving a bank are not running the same search, and a coach who treats them alike helps neither. Because we recruit into these sectors, someone leaving gets a coach who already knows their market and can put them in front of it.

Aerospace & Aviation

Aircraft maintenance technicians, avionics and component specialists, ground operations and aviation supply chain roles around Tan Son Nhat, Noi Bai and Long Thanh.

Automotive

Production and quality engineers, supplier development, sales and aftersales management for assemblers and the growing EV and component base.

Banking & Financial Services

Relationship managers, credit and risk analysts, compliance and AML officers and operations specialists across Vietnamese commercial banks, insurers and securities firms.

Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical

Regulatory affairs, QA and validation, medical representatives and market access roles for manufacturers, importers and distributors.

Chemical

Process and production engineers, plant supervisors, HSE officers and technical sales across the southern and central industrial zones.

Construction & Civil Engineering

Project and site managers, civil, structural and M&E engineers, quantity surveyors and safety officers on Vietnamese infrastructure and property projects.

FMCG & Retail

Brand and trade marketing managers, key account and modern trade specialists, and retail operations across a fast-growing national footprint.

Healthcare

Clinical operations, nursing leadership, medical representatives and regulatory specialists for private hospital groups and device companies.

IT & Telecommunication

Software engineers, DevOps, product managers and data specialists across the Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang development centres and outsourcing firms.

Logistics & Transportation

Freight forwarding, customs and import-export specialists, warehouse and distribution managers around Cat Lai, Hai Phong and the border crossings.

Marine & Offshore Engineering

Marine and subsea engineers, yard and vessel operations, project managers and HSE specialists across shipbuilding and offshore support.

Media & Publishing

Account management, content and performance marketing, creative and production roles across agencies, platforms and publishers.

Oil & Gas

Process, drilling and project engineers, HSE coordinators and commercial analysts for upstream operators, service companies and refineries.

Real Estate & Property

Development and project managers, leasing and property managers, facilities leads and investment roles for Vietnamese developers and funds.

Semiconductor

Process, test and packaging engineers, equipment and production specialists across the assembly and testing plants in the northern and southern parks.

Frequently asked questions

How is your outplacement service different from generic career-coaching firms?

A coaching firm improves the way someone searches. That is worth something, but they are still approaching the market from outside, sending applications to companies that have never heard of them.

Filling roles is our main business. The consultants doing that sit in the same office as the coaches, so a person in a programme can be considered for something real rather than coached on how to look for it. That is a difference in how the firm is built, not a premium tier.

What changes in practice is the ratio of applications to conversations. Fewer of the first, more of the second, which is what shortens a search and keeps an exit from curdling into a dispute.

How is pricing structured for outplacement programs?

No published rates, because one senior departure and a plant-wide reduction are not the same commercial problem. Four structures exist and we propose one after understanding which you have.

Per person, banded by level, with executive, senior, mid and junior programmes differing in depth and length. This covers one person or a handful.

Per person at a fixed length. Three, six or twelve months at a flat fee, chosen when a defined end point and budget certainty matter more than flexibility.

Per cohort, at a reduced rate per head, where a group leaves together. This is the normal case for a restructuring or a site closing.

Bespoke, where the profiles, timeline or inclusions resemble none of the above.

In every case fees and inclusions are documented before the first person enrols.

How quickly do candidates typically find new roles?

More variably than providers like to admit. Junior and mid-level people in sectors that are hiring often move within two months. Senior searches run longer, since there are fewer seats and slower decisions, and a change of industry adds time again.

What we track is not weeks elapsed but live conversations, because that is the leading indicator. Someone in three active processes is in a different position from someone who has sent sixty applications, whatever the calendar says.

Do you guarantee placement?

No. Whether somebody gets hired depends on the economy, the hiring cycle in their sector, what they decide they actually want, and an employer's own timing. A provider controls none of it.

What we commit to is the programme: a coach inside five working days, weekly sessions while the search is live, documents rewritten by people from recruitment rather than copywriting, mock interviews with real feedback, salary negotiation preparation, and active introduction into the mandates we are running.

A guarantee would win more work and would fail the person relying on it.

What does the experience feel like for the departing employee?

Most of it is decided in the first hour. Done properly it acknowledges the situation plainly, does not linger, and moves to something actionable: what they want next, where that is realistic, and fixing their documents this week.

After that it is consistency people mention. The same coach each week, someone who remembers the last conversation unprompted, and a fixed hour in a period that otherwise has no shape. The thing that changes the mood most, though, is a call about a real open role in their sector, because the search stops being theoretical.

Can you handle group outplacement for a large restructuring?

Yes, and a cohort is where the recruitment side shows most plainly.

Everyone onboards together on a per head rate, coaches are allocated by sector rather than at random, and the HR sponsor gets reporting across the group covering progress, outcomes and how the process is being received internally.

Inside the first week our consultants across several sectors are already weighing those people against roles they are working. In a site closure that is the part employees notice, and the part that protects how you are spoken about as an employer afterwards.

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