Outplacement & HR services in Canberra.

Canberra is a public sector market with its own rules. APS classifications, merit processes and security clearances all shape how a transition runs, and our consultants here know them. Prima works across Canberra, Queanbeyan, the ACT and the surrounding New South Wales region, in person, virtually, or a mix of both.

Outplacement That Understands the APS

Moving out of the public service is not the same as moving between private sector employers. Selection criteria, classification levels and merit processes work differently, and a CV that reads well to an agency panel often does not land with a commercial hiring manager — or the reverse.

Prima's consultants work with that directly, whether someone is moving between agencies, into the private sector, into consulting, or out of the workforce altogether. Coaches are matched by seniority and background, and support continues until the person achieves a successful career outcome.

Executive Transition for Senior Public Sector Leaders

For SES and equivalent leaders, the next move is rarely a straight line. It may be another agency, a statutory appointment, a board or advisory role, consulting, or a genuine change of direction. Prima works one-to-one to clarify what is actually wanted, test it honestly and build a deliberate strategy for getting there.

Canberra is a small and well-connected market, which makes discretion part of the work rather than an afterthought. Support continues around the journey, not the clock.

Coaching Leaders Through Machinery and Mandate Change

Public sector leaders manage through changes of government, machinery-of-government moves and shifting mandates, often while the ground moves under them. Prima Perform coaches them through competing priorities, difficult decisions, stakeholder complexity and higher expectations.

Engagements are aligned with the sponsor before they start and reviewed against those objectives at the end. The work has to translate into better leadership.

Local Knowledge of a Market With Its Own Rules

Prima supports agencies and the private sector that serves them, with unlimited psychological support for employees and their families, coaches matched to the individual, Prima's AI Career Suite and EXCELerator “Push” Technology behind the coaching, and real-time reporting for the organisations running the change — backed by national capability when a program runs beyond the ACT.

Restructuring an agency or function?

Tell us the numbers, levels, locations and timing, and we will come back with a program design and what it takes to stand it up.