December is nearly upon us and
so inevitably we will start hearing about “not much recruitment going on before
the New Year” and “it is difficult to be recruiting in December”.
Why?
We think December is a
cracking month to be recruiting (or be recruited) and there is a very simple
reason for that. January is rubbish!
- During January you are busy planning for the year ahead and find that everyone else is too. It is not that easy to coordinate diaries of interviewers and interviewees. By contrast in December diaries always tend to be a little less busy and interviewees can more easily disappear relatively unnoticed from current jobs to do some Christmas shopping/make an interview.
- Everyone recruits in January which means that as a candidate you are up against “the world and its wife” and as an employer you are slap bang in the middle of the War for Talent (and forever waiting for your competitors to progress with their interviews so your candidates can “compare and contrast”). In December you can get the Pick of the Bunch and progress the recruitment process at your pace.
AND most of all
- On the morning of 1st January everyone wakes and looks themselves in the mirror and decides that this is the year to find something new and certainly the time to get paid more.
- As a prospective employer though can you be absolutely certain that the candidate sat in front of you though is actually interested in the job that you are talking to you about or are they fishing for a counter offer?
By contrast though in
December you can be pretty certain that the candidate you ask in for interview
at 4.00 on the last Wednesday before Christmas is damn interested in the job!
And how impressive and
passionate do you sound as a candidate if you ask for that sort of interview
and opportunity?
So if you are planning to be
recruiting soon and are thinking about putting it off until January stop and
think about whether this is the most sensible thing to do or whether December
could work well for you?
Wright Solutions is a specialist HR Consultancy.
We attract, place and develop the highest calibre candidates in
Executive, HR and Learning & Development roles.
Our service is more than recruitment with our training solutions that
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