CMS Program Insights and Information

 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...

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...

As we have discussed in our Trials & Triumphs 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 working so...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...