CMS Program Insights and Information

Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition v.22 - Helping Devon to Develop Rational, Balanced Responses to Difficult Interview Questions #careertransitionprograms #downsizing #employeecoaching #hr #hrsupport #interviewprep #outplacement #outplacementservices Aug 27, 2025

 During the interview preparation process of the CMS outplacement program, many candidates express their worry about how to answer the question, why did you leave your last position? – especially when it wasn’t their choice to do so!

Many are coping with their own personal understanding of what may...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition, v.21 - Stephen's Lesson in the Art of Effective Salary Negotiation #careertransition #careertransitionservices #downsizing #employeecoaching #hr #hrsupport #outplacement #outplacementprograms Aug 20, 2025

As we continue to help prepare our candidates for the interview process as part of their outplacement program, we inevitably must discuss how to negotiate a potential salary.

Some candidates, however, will have little idea about what the employer is expecting to pay, because it has not been adverti...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition, v.20 - Sam's Lesson in How to Highlight her Key Strengths during an Interview … even when not specifically asked. #careertransition #careertransitionprograms #downsizing #employeecoaching #hr #hrcanada #hrsupport #jobseekers #outplacement #outplacementservices Aug 13, 2025

As we have discussed in our Trials & Triumphs series over the last few weeks, ensuring that the job search candidates that you have trusted in us to help, are aware of and are properly prepared for a variety of interview scenarios, is key to their success.

After all, what is the point of working so...

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For Our HR Colleagues - Customized Outplacement Solutions #careertransitionprograms #customizedoutplacement #hrcanada #hrsupport #outplacement #outplacementcanada Jul 30, 2025

Let us know what you need! – At CMS, we are always open to customizing outplacement solutions!

At CMS we strive to offer a range of meaningful, cost-effective outplacement programs to our valued HR clients, with the goal of providing service options that meet the varying needs and budgets that come...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition, v.19 - How Chase Developed His Awareness of (and Preparedness!) for Behavioural Style Interview Questions #canadianjobseekers #careertransitioncanada #hrsupport #interviewprep #jobseekers #outplacement #outplacementservices #theempoweredjobseeker Jul 23, 2025

In our last blog, we talked about how we help CMS outplacement program candidates prepare to effectively answer technical interview questions.  This week our focus is on how our Program Coaches help their job search candidates in the preparation for Behavioural Style interview questions.

Most job s...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition v.18 - How Chiara Came to Learn the Importance of Formal Interview Preparation #canadianjobseekers #careertransition #hrcanada #hrsupport #interviewpreparation #outplacement #outplacementcanada Jul 16, 2025

When most people go into a job interview their biggest problem is to remember and articulate everything that they have done and accomplished in the past.  Unless a candidate has prepared for this, the pressure of an interview can often make their answers awkward and disjointed.  The reason for this ...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition v.17 - How Effective Listening Skills were Consequential to Marc’s Interview Experience #canadianjobseekers #careertransition #hrsupport #jobsearchhelp #outplacementcanada #outplacementservices Jul 09, 2025

As we are all aware, job interviews generally revolve around a series of questions and answers to a specific set of questions.  Preparing our outplacement program candidates for a variety of questions is just one way we help them to prepare for the interview process.  Helping them to be aware of the...

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Proudly Canadian, Through and Through.. #canadianjobseekers #hrcanada #outplacmentcanada #proudlycanadian Jul 02, 2025

As I reflected on our country's birthday yesterday, I thought it would be good timing to showcase how proud we are at CMS to be 100% Canadian owned and operated.

We are not a multi-national organization who has come to settle in Canada as part of a large conglomerate, we are not a division of a for...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition v.16 - Carter’s New-found Understanding of How His Emotional State Affected His Physical Presentation in the Interview Room #careertransition #careertransitionservices #downsizing #employeecoaching #hr #organizationalchange #outplacement #outplacementcanada #outplacementprograms Jun 25, 2025

We recently introduced you to how we teach the former employees enrolled in CMS’s full-service outplacement program, about Emotional Intelligence and its profound effects on the interview process.  As our Program Coaches get deeper into interview preparedness, they explore how ones ‘emotional state’...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition v.15 - Olivia’s Enhanced Understanding of How Human Emotion Plays a Role in Interviews #careertransition #careertransitionprograms #downsizing #employeecoaching #hr #hrcanada #hrsupport #organizationalchange #outplacementcanada #outplacementservices Jun 18, 2025

Last week we introduced you to how we begin to coach and prepare our job search candidates for the all-important interview process, through the course of our full-service outplacement program.

We don’t need to be seasoned psychologists to be successful in the interview process but having a good und...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition v.14 - Helping Tony to Effectively Prepare for Competition #careertransition #careertransitionprograms #downsizing #hr #hrcanada #hrsupport #outplacement #outplacementcanada #theempoweredjobseeker Jun 11, 2025

Over the last few weeks, we have introduced you to the ways in which we help the former employees who you enrol in the CMS outplacement program, market their skills and career histories - whether that be through online job postings, LinkedIn, networking, the hidden job market, via recruiters, employ...

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For Our HR Colleagues - Customized Coaching for Performance Improvement #careertransition #hrcanada #hrsupport #outplacement #performanceimprovement May 28, 2025

As you know, the specialty at CMS is providing quality outplacement and career transition services to the employees who you unfortunately must part ways with.  In recent years however, we have added a few other services to our menu in response to the needs of our HR clients.

One of our most popular...

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