Happy December lovely people!
As the holiday season gets near and shops compete to see who takes more space from the pavement building up the biggest decorations (don’t go to Kensington), you will notice that the job market also goes through an uncertain period. What should you be expecting:
First week of December: Recruiters running around like crazy trying to close deals
As the financial year comes to an end in companies headquartered in the US you will see that recruiters will go under additional pressure in order to get positions filled to meet their financial targets on time.
From second week on: Drop in recruiting activity
There are two main reasons for this:
On one hand, as I said earlier many companies have their financial year finishing at the end of the calendar year, and that will cause companies to want to reduce spending and freeze activities like recruitment until the new budget for the next financial year starting in January.
The other reason is that as holidays approach most recruiters reduce their activity and even break earlier for the holidays especially those with young children.
So what can you do?
Enjoy your holidays? You certainly should!
And if you have some time you can prepare for the new year by updating your CV and do a search for the companies that you really want to work for in the new year.
You have the time and no pressure to apply like a maniac. You can take a step back and check the market for what you really want to do.
And of course, and as always you can drop me a line if you need some help with your CV or your job strategy, I will be happy to help and will be available until the 24th of December and will be back on the 9th of January (after the three kings celebration in Spain J).
