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CMS Program Insights and Information
To our HR friends and colleagues,
Happy New Year!
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you, your colleagues and your family all the best for the coming year and to thank you for offering our career transition programs for your staff in the past. I personally cherish the...
HR Leaders,
Organizational changes are a symptom of market adaptability and future growth. They are changes of course, that can be difficult and can affect your team members profoundly. Organizational changes can also be costly, which sometimes means the provision of individual...
For our HR colleagues,
As the year-end approaches and your team begins to plan for potential organizational changes in 2024, I thought you may be interested in previewing our 2024 HR Manager's Guide in advance of the new year.
We have continued to listen to the suggestions and requests...
To our HR colleagues,
At CMS we are conscious of your budgets, but we also are committed to providing meaningful career transition support to your outgoing employees.
Our Basic Outplacement Program meets both of those requirements.
It provides the fundamentals to an effective...
There are three main pillars that can describe the CMS full-service outplacement program. In last week’s blog, we discussed the value of Pillar #1 during job loss and career transition when emotions tend to run very high: personalized program coaching.
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...
It is important to us at CMS that our outplacement program candidates have a well-rounded experience while working with us. Encouraging the organization of their job search, the use of personal exercises as well as a program feedback questionnaire is part of how we accomplish...
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...
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...
To our HR colleagues,
As summer begins to close through September, I thought I would take this opportunity to re-introduce you to the full-service outplacement programs at CMS and how we might be able to help your employees if organizational changes are in the cards.
As you are well...
In our last blog we started a discussion about how we help our outplacement program candidates answer tricky interview questions, especially the one concerning why they left their previous position. If one didn’t leave their previous role on their own volition, there are...
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...