No BS Career Advice: November 17, 2024

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

With Thanksgiving approaching in the US, experience tells me that many of you who are job hunting are about to slip into a belief system that says, “No hiring is going to be done. I’ll just wait until January and get back into gear then.”

When I did recruiting, November and December were usually among my best months in sales because I understood (1) some managers needed to finish spending their budgets, (2) managers knew what their budget was going to be for the new year and wanted to get a head start on filling jobs for January starts, (3) there was less competition for the people I was representing because so many people believe no hiring is going to be done and waited until January to start up their activity again. With fewer people to choose from, the people I was representing got hired for January starts or were given a short-term consulting assignment that converted into a full-time position in January or February.

Don’t coast.

This is the easiest time of the year to network, reconnect, and get yourself to be out-of-mind with people you know, recruiters, managers, EVERYONE, so they are thinking of you and helping you get interviews that lead to new hires.

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