CMS Program Insights and Information

 As we have discussed over the last several weeks, interview preparation is key to one’s job search success. However, once interview day finally arrives our outplacement program candidates may need some help to stay focused on all the preparation they have completed!

As we can all relate, nerves ca...

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...

Ensuring that the job search candidates that our HR colleagues 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 hard to develop a strategic career development plan and an effe...

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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At the moment an employee is told their services are no longer required, their mind generally turns to the questions of ‘why?’, ‘why me?’, ‘how is this going to affect my family?, our finances?’  Not to mention, ‘what am I going to do next?’.

Jumping into a job search immediately after leaving a jo...

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...