CMS Program Insights and Information
 As we have discussed over the last several weeks, interview preparation is key to one’s job search success. However, once interview day finally arrives our outplacement program candidates may need some help to stay focused on all the preparation they have completed!
As we can all relate, nerves ca...
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...
 In our last blog we started a discussion about how we help our outplacement program candidates answer tricky interview questions, especially the one concerning why they left their previous position. If one didn’t leave their previous role on their own volition, there are generally only two other a...
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 ...
Ensuring that the job search candidates that our HR colleagues 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 hard to develop a strategic career development plan and an effe...
At CMS we strive to offer a range of meaningful, cost-effective career transition programs to our valued HR clients, with the goal of providing service options that meet the varying needs and budgets that come with different types of businesses and circumstances.
From our virtual DIY career tran...
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 ...
The way people search for jobs has always been evolving. From CMS’s beginning in 1981, we have watched how technology has been the key catalyst of those changes - from shifting the focus on paper résumés, in-person drop-offs, direct mail campaigns, phone calls and faxes to the use of email, social m...
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, to market their skills and career histories - whether that be through online job postings, LinkedIn, the hidden job market, or via recruiters, employment a...
When most candidates start the process of looking for a new job, they jump to their computers to begin researching and applying to online job postings. It is natural to want to know what kind of job opportunities are out there, and exploring online resources is a great first step in understanding wh...
The outplacement programs implemented at CMS include a series of comprehensive steps.  Once we’ve completed the all-important step of writing an effective résumé and ensuring a professional LinkedIn profile is established with our job seekers, the real work begins. The résumé marketing efforts as ...
As an HR professional, you understand how drastically recruiting has changed over the last few years, and that technology has played the greatest role in how employers find new candidates – and how candidates search for new work.
It is our job at CMS to ensure that our job seekers are well versed i...
