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career outplacement

 
 
noun [U]

Definition

HR help with finding another job that is provided by a company for an employee, usually an executive, whose job has ended or who is leaving the company: Providing career outplacement services to departing employees is the responsible thing to do.
(Definition of career outplacement noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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