Sometimes people have commented to us that December must be a slow month in recruitment, but typically the opposite is true. December is the last opportunity to get new roles approved and new employees signed on before everyone is off on holidays not thinking about work for a while. 

Here are four reasons why now is a great time to hire your team for next year. 

1. Job seekers switch off after Christmas

Many job seekers take time off over Christmas and January, and also take the opportunity to mentally switch off from work, often not checking emails and Inmails, so the pool of talent who are engaged in looking for new roles and contactable is much smaller after the Christmas week, and can often remain that way to the end of January.

2. Hiring managers are busy

While team members are off on holidays through January, managers are filling in to cover their team, or getting ready for sales kick-offs, and then busy building pipeline for the new year. So there’s very little spare time to engage in interviews and all the work involved in onboarding new team members.

3. Start them fresh

Employees who start in January or February after the holiday break often say they start a new role feeling refreshed and revived ready to hit the ground running. This can also reduce the time between making an offer and someone starting, as some employees like to take a few days or a week off in between jobs as well. By allowing that time to be over the holidays when work is slower anyway, you haven’t lost any time in between.

4. Approvals from leadership MIA

It can be harder to get approvals through on new hiring, when managers may be away on holidays, or there’s an office shut down for a few weeks. By getting all the approvals ticked off and starting recruiting before Christmas, you can remove some of those unnecessary delays, with a team secured for 2023.

So if you want to engage the best talent in technology and sales, don’t be fooled into delaying your hiring process to January, get started now and secure competitive talent. Contact our team for a confidential discussion about your hiring needs