Career Management Partners

Your next career move starts with understanding what fits—and what helps you thrive.

CMP’s career assessments offer two ways to take charge of your professional growth:

🔹 Career Pathways and Possibilities (CPP): Discover how your personality aligns with career paths and work environments through a personalized Career Fit Profile.

🔹 Career Success Builder (CSB): Gain insight into 14 career success practices and receive a personalized development guide focused on strengthening your three lowest-rated areas.

Find your fit. Build your success. Move forward with purpose.

Explore CPP and CSB: https://hubs.li/Q04zwXBS0

Guidance for Your Career Success Navigate your career transition with confidence. Discover how CMP’s validated assessments improve career fit, clarity, and long-term success

A successful career pivot is more than updating your resume or applying for a new role. It starts with getting clear on what you want next, identifying the strengths you can carry forward, and building a focused plan to move with confidence.

Our Career Pivot Playbook is designed to help you take that next step with purpose. Inside, you’ll find practical guidance to evaluate your direction, translate your experience, strengthen your personal brand, and navigate your transition strategically.

Whether you are exploring a new industry, pursuing a different role, or simply ready for work that better aligns with your goals, this playbook can help turn uncertainty into forward momentum.

Download the Career Pivot Playbook and start creating your path forward today.
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Strategies for Career Pivot Discover strategic Career Transition steps to assess your path, explore opportunities, and confidently pivot with our comprehensive planning guide.

Layoffs may be driven by business needs, but their impact is not always felt equally.

During Hispanic Heritage Month, HR leaders have an opportunity to recognize the realities facing Hispanic and other underrepresented employees—particularly during workforce reductions. When newer employees, specific business units, or communities already experiencing higher unemployment rates are disproportionately affected, a technically neutral process can still produce an uneven outcome.

Responsible RIF planning goes beyond compliance. It means considering impact, preparing managers for difficult conversations, protecting employee trust, and offering meaningful, culturally aware career-transition support.

How an organization supports people during a reduction-in-force becomes part of its employer brand long after the transition is complete.

Read CMP President Joe Frodsham’s latest blog, The Disproportionate Impact of Layoffs on Minority Communities, for practical guidance on leading workforce transitions with awareness, transparency, and care.

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Minority owned outplacement firm Layoffs impact more than just financials; they affect morale, trust, and performance. Effective outplacement support is key to managing the emotional fallout and preserving company culture.

Your next career move deserves a strategy that protects both your financial future and your leadership potential. Join Career Management Partners for three upcoming Career Victory Webinars designed to help you navigate transition with confidence.

Upcoming webinars
Protecting and Growing Your Wealth During Career Transition
Thursday, October 8 | 12–1 PM CST

Board-Readiness & Executive Mindset
Wednesday, October 14 | 12–1 PM CST

Stuck or Strategic? How to Define Your Next Career Move
Wednesday, October 28 | 12–1 PM CST

Whether you are exploring board service, preparing for an executive-level move, or making financial decisions during a career transition, these sessions offer timely guidance to help you move forward strategically.

Reserve your spot today: https://hubs.li/Q04zjZ-g0

Most organizations spend months deciding who will be impacted by a reduction in force. Thus, far less time is spent deciding how people will experience it. And that matters.

Before a RIF is announced, HR and business leaders should be aligned on more than the legal process. They should know:

What managers will say—and what they should not say

How employees will receive the news?
What support begins immediately after the conversation?
How remote and global employees will be included?
How leaders will respond when emotions run high?
What remaining employees need to hear next?
What they want people to say about the organization six months later?

Legal counsel helps manage organizational risk.

HR and business leaders must also manage the human experience.

The organizations that handle a RIF with dignity do not improvise on announcement day. They make intentional decisions long before anyone enters the room. https://hubs.ly/Q04zjtC90

The right executive hire is more than a placement—it’s a strategic advantage.

CMP Executive Search combines two decades of leadership-search experience with national and global reach, precision sourcing, validated assessment, and customized 90-day onboarding support. Our high-touch, high-tech approach helps organizations move faster, make confident decisions, and identify leaders who align with the role, strategy, and culture.

As a minority- and woman-owned firm, CMP also brings a diverse lens and a deep, differentiated talent network to every search—backed by a one-year guarantee.

Ready to find the leader who will move your organization forward? Learn more:
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Find Top Talent with Our Executive Search Experts | CMP Discover how our expert executive search services can help you find top talent to drive your business forward.

Great leaders rarely need more information—they need the right space, perspective, and partnership to turn insight into meaningful action.

CMP Executive Coaching is led by former executives who understand the realities of leadership firsthand. Through a customized, four-phase approach, our coaches help leaders strengthen performance in today’s role while preparing confidently for what’s next.

From building trust and clarifying priorities to creating measurable action plans and sustaining momentum, coaching is designed to deliver growth that lasts.

Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, universities, and global organizations, CMP helps leaders navigate complexity, elevate their impact, and step into larger opportunities with purpose.

Learn more about CMP Executive Coaching: https://hubs.li/Q04yJ_pM0

Executive Leadership Development Coaching Develop executives to meet the demands of your company. Invest in executive leadership coaching to steer your company to long-term success.

Join us for Finance Matters: Protecting and Growing Your Wealth During Career Transition, an insightful webinar designed for executives and professionals navigating a new role, consulting opportunity, business launch, or retirement planning.

Wealth Advisor, Juan Muñoz will share practical considerations for protecting what you have built while making informed decisions for future growth. From concentrated stock positions, emergency reserves, and insurance to retirement accounts, tax-efficient investing, equity compensation, and old 401(k) decisions, this session will help you approach your next chapter with greater financial clarity and confidence.

You’ll also explore executive-specific considerations—including RSUs, stock options, deferred compensation, bonuses, and negotiating financial benefits—as well as when alternative investments, private markets, or real estate may fit into your broader financial plan.

Bring your questions for a live Q&A and leave with practical insights to help you make intentional financial decisions during times of professional change.

Register today to reserve your spot.
Thursday, October 8 | 12:00–1:00 PM CT | Online
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Ready to build a career that gets noticed? 🚀

Success is not just about doing great work—it’s also about understanding how to navigate opportunities, build visibility, strengthen relationships, and position yourself for the growth you want.

CMP’s Career Success Builder helps you identify the career practices that have the biggest impact on recognition, satisfaction, engagement, and upward mobility.

In just 20 minutes, you’ll receive:
🌟 Immediate access to a personalized Profile Report highlighting your current effectiveness on each of the 14 practices of career success.
🌟 A personalized Development Guide with a proven and pragmatic plan to develop the participant's 3 lowest career practices – developing these practices will directly impact their career satisfaction and success in the near-term.

Whether you are pursuing a new role, planning a career pivot, or stepping into leadership, this is your opportunity to gain clarity and move forward with purpose.

Make your next move a confident one. Explore the Career Success Builder today:
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Career Success Builder Assessment Assess your skills, focus on impactful practices, and achieve sustained satisfaction and success in your professional journey.