CMS Program Insights and Information
 No matter how many times you have do it over the course of your career, delivering employment termination news to an employee is never easy, and can never be taken lightly.
Having an objective sounding board and third-party support for your HR team members and department managers, can go a long wa...
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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 adve...
As we have discussed in our #TheEmpoweredJobSeeker 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 worki...
Once the initial feelings of shock start to wane, most of the candidates who have joined the CMS outplacement program report that worries of replacing income and supporting personal finances at home become top of mind â even if provided with a substantial severance package.
That is why the provisio...
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...
 We recently introduced you to how we teach your former employees, who are enrolled in CMSâs full-service outplacement program, about Emotional Intelligence and its effects on the interview process.  As our Program Coaches get deeper into interview preparedness, they explore how ones âemotional stat...
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 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...
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...
At CMS, we understand how planning for the delivery of difficult news can be almost as stressful as delivering it to outgoing employees.
Let us take some of the related administrative burden, by using our efficient HR Manager's portal when you want to offer outplacement support.
Simply log in with...
As our program coaches delve deeper into the résumé marketing component of our outplacement program, they inevitably come to point where they encourage their job seekers to access the 'Hidden Job Market'. This is especially important during times of higher unemployment rates because it helps candid...
