CMS Program Insights and Information

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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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition, v.13 - Fatema’s Lesson in How the Relationships She Built in the Past, can be Helpful to Her Future #careertransition #careertransitionprogram #careertransitionservices #downsizing #hr #hrcanada #hrsupport #jobsearchhelp #outplacement #outplacementcanada #outplacementprograms #theempoweredjobseeker May 21, 2025

Helping the job seekers at CMS to explore a wide variety of résumé marketing channels is the role of our outplacement program coaches.  Helping them to increase their potential pool of job opportunities and to zero in on the right ones, is key to their long-term success.  The most obvious résumé mar...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition v. 12 - Broadening Jason's Résumé Marketing Efforts .. and, therefore his opportunities! #careertransition #careertransitionprogram #downsizing #employmenttermination #hr #hrcanada #jobloss #jobsearchhelp #outplacement #outplacementcanada #outplacementservices #theempoweredjobseeker May 14, 2025

As our program coaches delve deeper into the résumé marketing component of our outplacement program, they inevitably come to point where they encourage their job seekers to access the 'Hidden Job Market'.  This is especially important during times of higher unemployment rates because it helps cand...

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Trials & Triumphs of Career Transition v.11 - Keeping Marlie Realistic, Organized and Optimistic when Applying to Online Postings #careertransition #careertransitionprograms #careertransitionservices #employeecoaching #hr #hrcanada #hrsupport #jobsearch #outplacement #outplacementcanada #outplacementprograms #outplacementsupport May 07, 2025

 

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...

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