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Seeing an online post last week, \u201cChristmas doesn\u2019t\nstart until after Halloween\u201d made me chuckle since many stores are starting to\nstock holiday decorations\/lighting or they are certainly staged up for display\nimmediately following Halloween<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We unfailingly hear that companies\/managers slow the\ninterviewing\/hiring process due to holiday vacations and parties and that it\u2019s\nbest for professionals to take the attitude of \u201cThe Dude\u201d in the movie Big\nLebowski, to chill until January. This\nnotion annoys me as we need to stay focused as our clients are depending on us\nfor results. Additionally what if a\nprospective candidate shuts down during the holidays and misses a great\nopportunity? To help my focus, I avoid\nlistening to holiday music until the week before Christmas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is Holiday hiring slowdown real? I had to know, so I did couple of online\nsearches finding many articles with no definitive answer\/data. Checking the Bureau of Labor Statistics\nwebsite only left me more confused, although one chart in 2018 showed no\nsignificant seasonality between quarters in terms of job gains\/new hiring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I dug up data in our energy search practice\ndiscarding the years of 2015 – 2016 since the industry in general was in a\nhistorical downturn and looked at more robust years of 2012-2014 and good, but\nmuted years of 2017 & 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n