The Empowered Job Seeker Series, v.24 - Provoking Kendra's Curiosity into Career Trends (and helping to confirm her direction!)

As part of helping their candidates look for a new job, CMS Program Coaches also encourage their outplacement program clients to explore current job market trends, and outlooks as they relate to their particular industry, position, and career stage so that they can anticipate outcomes and potential challenges, and also change course if need be.

When Kendra joined our program, she had just left her office administration role in the healthcare industry after five years of service.  She told her Program Coach that she loved working within healthcare, but she didn't really love the office environment.  She found sitting for long periods of time difficult and felt she needed to move around more! She was ready for a career change.

The difficulties that the COVID pandemic brought discouraged many from the healthcare field, but for Kendra it just drove home the fact that helping others was her calling.  Through her CMS outplacement program, we utilized our career assessment and goal setting tools to help confirm for Kendra that nursing was a compatible profession for her to pursue - and was a realistic pursuit at this time of her life.

In addition, we encouraged Kendra to use some resources and the links provided in our online program to help her to further explore nursing as a profession in Canada.  When she looked at the Canadian Career Outlooks for Nurses at the federal government website, Kendra could see in black and white that her career prospects in that field were excellent - further confirming for her that an education in nursing was what she needed to pursue.

Looking for a new job, and especially contemplating a career change, generally sparks interest into employment trends, current salaries, news and articles about career transition topics.  That is why we are sure to include a section at the end of our program materials, that invites curiosity into these subjects by providing links to related content such as the one Kendra used to help confirm her new career direction!

It’s our hope that by providing this type of information to all CMS job seekers, that we help to round-out their experience with our outplacement program and aid in their education and growth during their temporary career transitions.