Executive Outplacement Services
At the senior level, the problem is not formatting or job boards. It is positioning: how the search side categorizes you on first pass. ClearLane is the diagnostic suite built to close that gap.
Take the Free Lane Clarity Check Get the Bundle -- $1,000What executive outplacement actually is
Executive outplacement is employer-funded career transition support, typically offered as part of a severance package. The promise is structured help navigating the job market: resume review, interview coaching, access to job postings, and a career consultant to work through the process.
That is what it promises. In practice, senior executives consistently report using it for one or two sessions before quietly stopping. The content is generic. The people delivering it have never sat inside a search firm. The resume review produces a cleaner-looking document that still does not address why the executive is being categorized incorrectly on first read.
At the VP and C-suite level, these are not small gaps. The stakes of a search are too high and the errors are too expensive for generic support to move the needle.
Traditional vs. ClearLane
| What matters | Traditional providers | ClearLane |
|---|---|---|
| Built for this level | VP gets the same program as the coordinator two floors down. | Built specifically for Directors, VPs, SVPs, and C-suite at PE-backed and mid-market companies. |
| Search-side perspective | Built by coaches and career advisors who have never run a retained search. | Built by an executive search professional who has evaluated thousands of profiles against real mandates. |
| Time to start | Weeks from separation to first contact, once the contract and intake are settled. | Same-day access. No intake queue. No scheduling. |
| What you get | Generic resume review, scheduled sessions, a portal that runs out. | Positioning diagnostic, role-specific gap analysis, mock interview calibrated to the actual company. Lifetime access. |
| Cost to the executive | Paid by your former employer; rarely affordable if you buy it yourself. | Priced for individual purchase. Full suite at $1,000, roughly a tenth of the cost of traditional executive outplacement. |
What ClearLane does
ClearLane is not career coaching. It is a structured diagnostic suite that replicates the read a recruiter forms in the first pass of your profile: how you are categorized, what the gaps are against specific roles, and how your story holds up under the kind of questioning you will actually face.
Each tool reads what the previous one built. The resume feeds the gap analysis. The gap analysis feeds the positioning audit. The audit informs the mock interview. The positioning work sharpens with every iteration, without retyping anything between steps.
$199
Sets the lane on paper and scores it in real time against how the market should read you.
$249
Maps your background against a specific role and names every gap before you apply.
$349
The full diagnostic: how recruiters categorize you, where the risks are, and what to do first.
$449
Tests your positioning out loud, with adaptive follow-up and an honest debrief.
All four tools. Lifetime access. No subscription. Built for the search you are actually running.
Get the Bundle -- $1,000 Start with the Free CheckWho built this
Ido Singer
Executive Search Professional, Founder of ClearLane
Ido led and supported dozens of VP and C-suite searches for PE-backed companies across multiple industries. He has seen the same positioning mistakes from the search side hundreds of times. He built ClearLane to give candidates the honest read that is almost never delivered from the outplacement side: how the recruiter is actually categorizing them, and why.