CMS Program Insights and Information

 At CMS we strive to keep our ears open to the needs and wants of our HR colleagues when it comes to outplacement and career transition support for outgoing team members.

As you may recall, this past November we introduced a wider variety of options regarding our flag-ship Full-Service Outplacement...

Why reinvent the wheel? Within the Résumé Writing chapter of our Canadian Career Management System is a strategically developed résumé writing database designed to help our job seekers to articulate just what they have done over the course of their careers.  Of course, they innately know what they h...

Résumé writing is an art and a prerequisite exercise in marketing skills and work experience. Effectively and efficiently communicating career level and the experiences and contributions one can bring to the table of a new employer, ensures that a résumé ends up on top of the pile—not on the bottom ...

Goal setting is probably the most important thing one can do when between jobs, especially if when between jobs involuntarily. 

Many people in this unfortunate position will have a knee-jerk reaction to find a new job as quickly as possible—randomly applying to any job posting that closely resemble...

 To our valued HR colleagues, 

As the year-end approaches and your team begins to plan for potential organizational changes in 2026, I thought you may be interested in previewing our 2026 HR Manager's Guide in advance of the new year.

We continue to offer a range of meaningful outplacement service...

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...

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 ...

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...

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’...

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...

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...