CMS Program Insights and Information
In a recent 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 more behavioural style interview questions.
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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.Â
Helping them to be aware of t...
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...
 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 un...
At CMS, we understand that as an HR professional, planning for the messaging of difficult news can be almost as stressful as delivering it to outgoing employees.Â
The purpose of our HR Manager's Portal is to relieve some of the related administrative burden on generally over burdened HR Leaders, by...
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 and their teams.
The foc...
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 ...
Everybody has their own unique style when it comes to learning new things and working in general. Some learn best by doing, talking and collaborating, while others learn most easily by reading and listening.
The same is true when one is learning how to find a new job. For example, some of the cand...
Personalizing outplacement programs is the only way to make them matter. Why spend valuable budget on cookie-cutter programs that don’t truly help someone through a life-changing moment? Learning that one has lost their job is bound to prompt a series of emotions from shock to fear, despair to sham...
