The best candidates wait till right after the holidays to begin looking for newer pastures. (Of course many wait to receive their annual bonus).
January usually starts slowly as people come back from holiday vacations but by the second week of the month, momentum starts building.
The Holiday season is upon us and recruitment for great talent may feel like trudging through molasses. However this can be an outstanding time to connect with well-qualified candidates. With just a bit of ingenuity and creative thinking, organizations can make the most of the Holiday season to recruit the very best talent available.
1. When you have to turn down work.
If you have to turn down work because you can’t fit another project into your schedule, it’s a good indicator that your business is ready for help.
If you’re growth is being inhibited by the hours in a day that you can work, then it’s time to start thinking about another employee so you can retain all available revenue.
Of course business owners want to earn more money, but some do not want the added work or complications that come with hiring someone new. Then the question becomes: can you afford not to hire someone to assist in growing your business?
Because most firms don’t recruit during this period, it’s easy to follow the crowd and to also shut down your own recruiting effort. Strategically, however, that would be a huge mistake and a missed opportunity. The best time to recruit is when others are idle and when the candidates are most available and receptive. This is even truer if you are a lesser-known organization that has little success when you must recruit side-by-side against better-known competitors.
In most businesses, this is really what the boss or a client wants from us. Results.
I’m pretty sure that right at this very moment you have your nose at the grindstone and you are sincerely trying to achieve the results that are demanded by your boss or client.
These results may or may not even be realistically attainable. Whether or not it’s realistic, it may not be your choice to decide. You have to do your job and you have to do it now.
Most of us are stuck in a rut in our careers and in our personal lives. We tell ourselves that one day we are going to change our lives or our behavior.
You wait for a good time. And for whatever reason, the timing always seems to get in the way of what we want for ourselves.
Haven’t you learned by now that there is never a “right time” to do anything?
If you are a hiring manager, take a hard look around at your employees. Are they assisting you towards reaching your goals? If not, than its time to make some changes. You are in business to win and to dominate your industry and the only way to do that is that have the best employees. Bringing in a partner recruitment firm to help solve your staffing needs is the right move RIGHT NOW.
Know this: you are well qualified. In fact you might even be over qualified.
The reason is simple but not so obvious for most people. The best evidence available is to look at a short list of successful people who have done outrageously successful things in their life without any “qualifications”:
As a recruiter, we are out there on the front lines, rolling up our sleeves to source, screen and slate the top talent on the market. We strive to do whatever it takes (ethically) to find that always elusive blue diamond, that needle in the proverbial passive haystack, and, against all odds, turn them into interested, engaged applicants.
