CMS Program Insights and Information
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 CMS we strive to offer a range of meaningful, cost-effective career transition programs to our valued HR clients, with the goal of providing service options that meet the varying needs and budgets that come with different types of businesses and circumstances.
From our virtual DIY career tran...
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...
We recently introduced you to how we teach the former employees enrolled in CMSâs 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 âemotional stateâ...
The way people search for jobs has always been evolving. From CMSâs beginning in 1981, we have watched how technology has been the key catalyst of those changes - from shifting the focus on paper rĂ©sumĂ©s, 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 donât need to be seasoned psychologists to be successful in the interview process but having a good un...
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, to market their skills and career histories - whether that be through online job postings, LinkedIn, the hidden job market, or via recruiters, employment a...
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...
Helping the job seekers at CMS to explore a wide variety of résumé marketing channels is a large part of 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 ob...
