CMS Program Insights and Information
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...
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...
No matter how many times you have do it over the course of your career, delivering employment termination news to an employee is never easy, and can never be taken lightly.
Having an objective sounding board and third-party support for your HR team members and department managers, can go a...
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...
As we have discussed in our #TheEmpoweredJobSeeker 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...
Once the initial feelings of shock start to wane, most of the candidates who have joined the CMS outplacement program report that worries of replacing income and supporting personal finances at home become top of mind – even if provided with a substantial severance package.
That is why the...
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...
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...
We recently introduced you to how we teach your former employees, who are enrolled in CMS’s full-service outplacement program, about Emotional Intelligence and its effects on the interview process. As our Program Coaches get deeper into interview preparedness, they...
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...
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,...
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. ...
