Would you help me with a answer to redundnacy question at Interview?

[androbbob]

My DH has been made redundant due to cost saving where they reduced department managers from 3 to 2. We need to formulate an acceptable answer in the positive that he can use to answer the question 'Why was your post made redundant?'.

He was very unlucky really as it was done as a unit consultation so they could do it in 30 days, but affected over 15 employees in the area in other stores. If they had been put all together in a pot he would have retained a post in another store asw his score was higher than others who kept their posts.

Will be out all day but will check back this evening = thankd for your help!

There is, sadly, a lot of this around.

I would suggest something close to what you've posted here, along the lines of: the company was forced to restructure and a number of posts/functions were cut including mine (ie driven by external events and falling on job role, not individual performance).

It would really help if his reference backed this up; wording of reference can be negotiated during redundancy process. Employers are pretty minimal about what they say, but something along the lines of: made redundant solely because of unavoidable restructuring

Good luck with job hunting

thanks for that - good point about the references as DH needs to speak to them before putting names forward.

definitely definitely what onimolap says, get the ref sorted :)

Make sure that there are clear references to his strengths - attendance, punctuality, performance, achieving targets etc. Make it clear that it is purely geographical, localised as you said earlier, and is not a reflection upon his professional standards / ability.
Assuming it's in some sort of sales. If I'm way off then sorry

It is in sales - retail store of a large company. He had been there 28 years so I think he fears that he was got rid of due to the length of time he was there.

no way of knowing.... but bet you're not far off. Presumably they would keep someone cheaper, with less of whatever their long service entitlements are. B@stards.

In answer to the OP, I think I'd explain briefly that there was a unit consultation done within a month ... surely any potential employer worth their salt will figure out just what went on

I was in a sticky position last year trying to explain why I'd moved from a very senior post to apply for a very run-of-the-mill one. It appeared to be respected and understood when I said that I had to make the move for family reasons (I wondered at one point if this would be the career suicide that it potentially could be) but they seemed to take it as a positive point. Good luck to your OH :)