Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition, v.28 - How Practical Job Search Tools Created the Biggest Pool of Opportunities for Candidates like Dana

There are three main pillars that can describe the CMS full-service outplacement program.  In our last blog, we discussed the value of Pillar #1 during job loss and career transition when emotions tend to run very high: personalized program coaching.

This week we focus on Pillar #2, which is equally essential to reaching the goal of our outplacement program which of course, is to help job search candidates, like Dana, find new, fulfilling employment as quickly as possible.

Dana joined our program after more than 12 years with her previous employer in the telecommunications sector.  Luckily for her, she had not had the need to write a résumé or launch a job search for many years and was overwhelmed with the thought of what she needed to do first, leaving her quite unsettled.

With the help of her assigned CMS program coach, the practical tools and job search strategies inherent to the success of our programs were customized to Dana’s individual needs.  All CMS candidates have access to our online, proprietary program materials, The Canadian Career Management System© for the latest job search philosophies and resources.  The program materials are designed in a comprehensive, step-by-step fashion and are easy for everyone to navigate - no matter their technical skills.

In Dana’s case, she found great value in the formal career assessment and personal goal setting modules to help her quiet her mind and zero in on what was important to her and her family at that point in time.  Working through the exercises quietly on her own, and then discussing them in detail with her coach was fundamental to the decision-making process about her next career move and paramount to the strategies implemented for the next stage of her program.

Included in the 100+ pages of rich content, our program modules include friendly, professional informational videos, personalized exercises, external links to job search resources as well as a database of résumé writing examples.  For a complete table of contents of our program materials, please email Louise Hack directly.

Ensuring that our program materials are thorough and consistently up to date -means that CMS full-service, basic and virtual outplacement job search candidates have access to meaningful strategies, tools and resources proven to accelerate their career transition.