Outplacement Assistance
ClearLane is outplacement assistance built from the search side: what the recruiter actually sees when they look at your background, and what to fix before the search starts. No intake, no scheduling. Start today.
Take the Free Lane Clarity Check Get the Bundle -- $1,000The moment you are in
The instinct in the first 48 hours is to do something: update the resume, call contacts, reach out to a few search firms. That instinct is correct. The problem is that most of what gets done in those first days is tactical work on top of a positioning problem that has not been identified yet.
Your resume may be aimed at the wrong role. Your LinkedIn may be categorizing you as something you no longer want to be. Your story, told under pressure in an introductory call, may be routing you to the wrong conversations. None of these problems are visible from the inside, and none of them get fixed by updating bullet points or refreshing job board alerts.
The first 72 hours matter because the outreach you do now shapes the narrative that follows you through the search. Getting the positioning right before the search starts is easier than correcting it in the middle of one.
Why standard outplacement support misses this
Traditional outplacement programs are built for employers, not for the executives using them. They service every level from the same template. The advisor you get has not run a retained search or evaluated a shortlist. The resume review produces a cleaner document, not a better-positioned one. The interview coaching covers generic questions, not the level-specific evaluation you will actually face.
Many of these programs do not start for days or weeks after separation. By then, the executive has already begun reaching out, often with materials that are not positioned correctly. The outplacement support arrives after the damage is already happening.
ClearLane starts the same day you are ready. No contract, no intake, no scheduling. The first tool is free. The full suite runs $1,000, a fraction of the cost of traditional executive outplacement programs.
What to do, in order
The free Lane Clarity Check takes two minutes. Upload your LinkedIn PDF, answer four questions, and get an honest read on how the market is currently categorizing you. This is the baseline. Everything else builds from it.
The most expensive mistake in a senior search is applying to the wrong roles before the positioning is clear. The Positioning Audit identifies exactly how the market reads you versus how you want to be read, and what the gap costs you in the search.
Once you know the lane, the Resume Builder builds the document to score cleanly for it. Then the Gap Analyzer runs it against each specific role you target, naming every gap before you apply.
The Mock Interview runs a structured, level-aware interview before the real one. It surfaces where your answers break, where you over-qualify or under-claim, and exactly what needs to tighten before you are in the room.
The tools
$199
Builds the resume around your target lane with a live score that tracks whether the document reads as the role you say you are.
$249
Maps your resume against a specific role and identifies every keyword gap, structural issue, and missing proof point.
$349
The full diagnostic: how the search side categorizes you, where the risks are, and five prioritized actions to fix them.
$449
A level-aware interview simulation with adaptive follow-up, honest callouts, and a debrief that tells you what to fix.
All four tools. Lifetime access. Starts the same day. No intake, no scheduling, no waiting.
Get the Bundle -- $1,000 Start with the Free CheckWho built this
Ido Singer
Executive Search Professional, Founder of ClearLane
Ido ran VP and C-suite searches for PE-backed companies. He has been on the side of the table that decides who gets the call and who does not. He built ClearLane to give executives the one read they almost never receive: the honest, search-side assessment of how the market is categorizing them, delivered before the search is already underway.