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Should I start looking for a job before the New Year?

To many, this question will seem strange: isn’t it better to take care of gifts and where to send children for the winter holidays at this time? Most people who have decided to change their lives since the new year really prefer to calmly finish December in their usual team, and only from the second half of January begin to think about “changing places”.

• low competition of applicants in the labor market;

• some employers are interested in starting the year with a full staff (this is especially true if a new project is planned from January);

• when you get a job in December, you will be able to attend the final annual meetings of the company, which will give you the opportunity to learn a lot about it and about its plans for the next year;

• New Year's corporate events will allow you to meet colleagues in an informal setting and get an idea of ​​the corporate culture;

• having worked less than a month, in January you will receive a weekly paid vacation.

The success of the New Year's job search also depends on where the applicant applies, what working conditions he agrees to and, of course, on the vacancies for which he applies. you with open arms will accept:

• in the hotel, restaurant, tourism and service industries;

• in recruitment agencies that recruit temporary staff in the manufacturing sector with a continuous work cycle. It is up to you whether the temporary job becomes permanent;

• in small private companies, which are often in a fever at the end of the year;

• in reputable and long-standing companies that consistently recruit staff throughout the year.

By the way, if you are hired in December, then it is quite possible that you will have to start your duties only from January! And you will meet the New Year and Christmas days in a good mood and confidence in your future.

Larisa Kupriyanchik

Publication date 28.12.2010 Moscow

The labor market lives according to its own laws: there are periods of calm and phases of recovery. It is certainly useful for everyone to take these patterns into account when looking for a new job, but it is also worth dispelling some misconceptions ... For example, it is believed that at the end of December the “dead season” begins, which lasts until mid-January, when recruiters and personnel officers are busy with just that that decorate office Christmas trees and do not pay attention to incoming mail. We asked the representatives of the personnel departments of large Moscow companies what their current situation with the selection of personnel is.

Nadezhda Nenasheva,
HR Manager of the Capital Trade House "Milavitsa"

I think that now you should not stop looking for a job, but, on the contrary, intensify it. The last days of December and the post-holiday weeks are good time to get a job: competition in the labor market is significantly reduced, as many postpone the search for a job, therefore, the chances of the most active and persistent job seekers increase.

We are currently recruiting Sales Consultants. If earlier we made certain requirements for candidates (one of the mandatory ones is having experience in working with non-food products for at least a year), then in the last two weeks the number of responses has significantly decreased. Therefore, if the vacancy is “burning”, then we are ready to reduce our requirements for candidates, we consider applicants with less work experience or with work experience in related fields, for example, an administrator, a call center operator. On the other hand, applicants with insufficient qualifications and work experience can now qualify for better offers compared to any other period.

It is not easy for HR workers now, because finding a worthy candidate on the eve of the holidays and before the end of January is a big problem. Therefore, when searching for an employee, it is necessary to cover much more publications and Internet resources (including using additional options on specialized sites: highlighting, auto-raising, placing a banner or company logo on the main page, etc.), use it to search for candidates social networks to attract as many candidates as possible and increase the number of responses. Of course, the costs become higher and do not always lead to the desired result, but if there is a hot vacancy, this is the only way out. Searching for employees for other vacancies may take longer, because the activity of candidates will increase, and the labor market will revive closer to February.

I would like to note that my job search period always fell on the post-holiday period: there were many interesting offers and job searches always took a fairly short time.

Ksenia Pirogova,
Head of the Human Resources Department of CJSC "Agent.ru"

There are many areas of business and activities in which the greatest activity is observed precisely in the pre-holiday and holidays. The leaders in this business, of course, are trade, customer support, logistics, tourism, etc. Therefore, it is natural that on New Year's Eve, when the majority of the population is busy looking for gifts and compiling annual reports, the personnel officers of the organizations indicated solve a different problem - where to find competent and trained personnel for efficient work.

However, the New Year requires not only temporary workers. After all, the onset of a certain date on the calendar does not at all mean the cessation of all work at the enterprise and does not eliminate the need to search, for example, for a process engineer. Recruitment is a permanent process, another thing is that before any holidays, the activity of the applicants themselves decreases, because an illusion is created that business activity is dying down.

In our organization, this is certainly not the case. Closer to the New Year (as well as to the summer), we are actively attracting applicants for the vacancies of "support operator", "courier", "driver". Many of those who came to temporary work after the holidays stay with us on a permanent basis or are transferred to other departments.

I do not consider it expedient to postpone the job search for the next calendar year. On the contrary, a fresh resume will stand out among its non-updated counterparts on recruitment portals. In addition, it will be easier for an applicant who got a job at the end of the year to join the team because of the atmosphere accompanying the holiday, it will be easier to adapt to it and start new life in the new year. The only thing that can be advised to a candidate looking for a job in the New Year's bustle is to try to complete all negotiations with the company before the long holidays. Intermittent meetings in HR or with a line manager can get in the way of a complete picture of you as a professional. As for the staff of the personnel department, I recommend not to despair, even if it seems that all the candidates have “gone under the water”. On the contrary, the most stubborn and industrious remained on the surface, and it is precisely such that we are always trying to find. I wish both fronts to find their working "halves" in the new year: applicants - a favorite office, and personnel officers - dedicated employees.

Svetlana Kadyrova,
Recruitment Manager at Mobile Element

Traditionally, before the New Year, it is more difficult for an HR manager to find people for open vacancies, as there is a decrease in the number of people who want to get a job. At this time, we begin to place more advertisements in the media, on the Internet and connect additional search methods. The managers of our numerous communication salons support new employees in various ways, helping them to get used to the new place of work. Unfortunately, applicants often have the following mood on the eve of the holidays: I’d rather have a rest now, and go to work after the New Year. But sales managers are in demand before the New Year as well as at any other time. In addition, the New Year's consumer fever is a great way to cash in on sales. The sales consultant works for the result, that is, receives a percentage of the cost of the goods sold. Since at the end of December, sales increase, respectively, and the salary of sellers doubles. Yes, the pre-New Year's race will be followed by a slight decline in sales, but by mid-January, demand will recover, since cellular communications are always in demand.

Any employee at the device on new job faces a number of difficulties: a new company, a new team, for many even a new field of activity. The adaptation period is present in any field of activity, and the tasks of the personnel manager include helping a new employee to get used to the new team, understand the numerous assortment of salon products and increase sales.

Thus, it's time for sales managers to get hired before the New Year and make big profits. Purposeful people who do not lose hope to find for themselves Good work no matter what day it is on the calendar, you can easily find the right vacancies. It is precisely these: result-oriented, not lazy, positive applicants that we want to see at the interview and then at the position of the seller.

The material was prepared by Olga Lebedeva

This important reminder for job seekers will tell you about the main traps of New Year's vacancies.

Every year the same thing. Two weeks before the New Year, clients, like mad, open new vacancies marked “urgent”. And after the New Year they are closed. But not because they found a person, but because the vacancies were not needed.

Why is this happening

Companies defended preliminary budgets, distributed expenses and revenues for the next year, defended development strategies on boards of directors, understood who was being fired and what was being developed, and immediately rushed to the hunters. Therefore, in the New Year's Eve weeks, top vacancies bloom so much.

Why most of them will never become reality

But because the shareholders and the owner will have a rest for two drunken New Year's weeks, then they will return to the office, having completely forgotten everything, and to the question: “What are we doing with the vacancy?” - a typical answer would be: “With what vacancy? What are you, I never ordered this, and in general, who are you?

How to distinguish such vacancies

Any top job opening two weeks before the New Year is not live. If it is not the fruit of hysteria after the annual board of directors, then it will be reopened after NG. If the fruit, then she will die during the drunken weeks of the New Year.

That is, you can respond to TOP vacancies that are open from today, but you need to understand: the likelihood that this vacancy will remain after the New Year is 50%. And the fact that you will pass in the "week of corporate parties" will be forgotten and after the New Year the marathon of your meetings with HR will go in the second round - 90%. So decide for yourself.

What jobs does this not apply to?

1. To any linear, where the main principle is “a person is urgently needed” and where they are looking not for the best, but for the first corresponding one. That is, the search for a seller on December 25 is a living history. The search for the head of the sales department is not a living history.
2. To vacancies in Western companies. Everyone works there until December 30 like damned.

What Can Applicants Do

Read vacancies, choose the best ones, in the “Favorites” folder and immediately after the New Year holidays see if they have been extended. If extended, apply immediately (I repeat, this does not apply to the two categories of vacancies indicated above).

With the beginning of the last marathon before the big crisis of corporate booze and congratulations to you, comrades!

As you know, a real careerist begins to "keep an eye" on a new job almost immediately after the probationary period has passed at the current place. Even if everything is going well at the moment, who knows if circumstances will change. And it’s a sin for a specialist to forget about new perspectives and expanding his own skills.

Personnel officers adhere to the same opinion: they do not respect “flyers”, but they also treat an employee who has held out in one place for more than three years as an “overstayed” and somewhat lagging behind in professional development. The moral of this fable for lovers of stability is disappointing - you need to change jobs every three years, even if now everything is OK with you and the boss promises an increase in salary. Therefore, it turns out that at a time when all normal people are preparing a corporate party program and trying out the menu of a family New Year's table, individual workers stubbornly post resumes on job-oriented sites and go to interviews. At first glance, their ardor is wasted - really the bosses have nothing more to do than to recruit personnel just before the New Year. In addition, the holidays are paid, so it is appropriate to sit them out at the old job, receiving their legitimate money. Here the country emerges from a series of New Year's parties and feasts lasting almost a month - then it's worth moving. According to a number of studies, more than 10% of employees decide to leave work just before the New Year, but no more than 0.03% undertake to realize it. In fact, those who argue in this way are making a big mistake.

HR specialists have been noticing one very interesting trend for several years now. Despite the fact that on the eve of the New Year the general elated festive mood does not seem to contribute to the renewal of personnel, by December employers are unusually more active. According to the data of the majority of Internet services of the relevant subject, 25-40% more vacancies were posted on the websites in the last working week than usual. And in the first two working weeks of 2008 - by the same amount less than the average for the year. On the contrary, the number of those wishing to break away by joining New Year with a new job is small - according to the statistics of the same Internet resources, the number of resumes posted in the New Year's Eve weeks tends to a minimum. But after the old New Year, when the entire working population of Russia unanimously takes up their minds and remembers their work responsibilities, the number of people who want changes on the career front increases dramatically. Let's say that 8723 resumes were posted on the site SuperJob.ru alone for the week from January 9 to 16. While usually their number does not exceed 4-5 thousand.

You can make assumptions about what it is connected with. On the one hand, many employers are preparing the start of new projects in the new year, and the team for such projects must be completed in advance. Since the new year, orders are usually signed to expand the staff, which again implies the presence, if not a ready-made candidate, then at least applicants for the position. After all, the end and very beginning of the year, with its relatively relaxed work environment, is a good time to give a new employee time to fit into the team, enter the responsibilities without fuss and hassle, and finally test him in an informal setting. “Imagine, I just went to work - and immediately a corporate party,” a friend complains. “But I’m not at all in the subject: who, with whom, against whom, and how to behave, I can’t imagine.” Indeed, for those who have not yet managed to enter the course of office intrigues and undercover struggle, it is not difficult to get into a mess. Even how to dress for such a holiday in the new office, it is not clear. Either ballroom dancing is expected, or just a disco where crinolines will look out of place.

On the other hand, after a long vacation, employees are usually overwhelmed by a thirst for change. Having rested and relaxed, you begin to see the usual work "in a new light" and understand that there is nothing to catch here. Guides on "how to survive at work after the holidays" are full of the entire Network, but this does not make it easier. Realizing that they need to move on, and the current place is simply disgusting, employees throw statements on the table to the authorities and begin to actively scatter resumes on websites and recruitment agencies. So the work is added to personnel officers and HR managers.

The above is also true for working people. Loaders, for example, leave in droves before the New Year: in the second half of December, their work becomes less, and, unable to withstand this indulgence, they indulge in all serious, if not completely absenteeism. You have to write statements of your own free will. But bartenders and waiters, as a rule, do not rush to work before the holidays - at this time their tips are much higher than usual. The same applies to sellers who "make" monthly revenue during the New Year holidays.

But especially valuable qualified employees, as a rule, top managers of the middle and senior levels, receive bonuses at the end of the year. The size of such bonuses can exceed several monthly salaries. And until they are received, such personnel will not budge, no matter how tempting offers they are tempted by new employers. There are cases when companies, in order to outbid the especially promising employees they needed, even partially compensated them for the payment of annual bonuses. As a rule, usually such bonuses are paid in the spring, at the end of the financial year. Thus, employers insure themselves against the fact that an employee, on whom a key area of ​​work depends, suddenly leaves for competitors. True, employees on whom the fate of the company does not depend can go on a search in January quite freely. And suddenly luck smiles: you will get to the place where you planned to take a more highly qualified specialist. Just because the obviously more successful competitor stayed at his old job to wait for his bonus. Further, as expected, will depend only on you.

However, it is naive to be deceived: a real "job fair", where you can sell yourself at a higher price or find a truly valuable employee for reasonable money, will not begin until February. Just at this time of the year, the start of the main projects is planned, and the main activity in the labor market will not begin until spring. Another thing is that by this time the "castling" of personnel should already be done, so it makes sense to hurry up.

At the same time, it is not beneficial for everyone to look for a new job at the beginning of the year. Personnel officers give advice: people of some specialties rush in search of new labor happiness in January is not only useless, but also harmful. For example, before summing up the results of the financial year, accountants should not lose their temper: few employers agree to take, even if very a good specialist who substituted the former company at such a crucial moment. It is difficult to carry out a post-New Year job search for those whose activities are related to planning for the next year. Here the situation is the same - first describe the activities of your unit for the reporting period, then welcome to a new place. But for those whose project was completed by the end of the year or its next stage ended, it's time to enter the job market.

And, of course, it is important to observe accepted ethical principles. Each company has its own, but there are still a few common ones. You need to give the management time to find you a worthy replacement, if possible, to bring your successor up to date, to complete previously started projects. You need to notify your business partners about the change of work: most likely, in the future these contacts will be useful to you. There are, of course, dramatic conflicts. After a letter of resignation, an employee can be piled on to the maximum, and the last salary is not paid, or only the official part of it is paid. Colleagues at the same time the remaining time will hiss in the back, denouncing the "traitor", chasing a long ruble.

Draw a line, make a wish list, promise yourself to lose a couple of pounds - all these are traditional must-dos at the end of the year. But what to do if there is a desire to radically change life right here and now, and you decide to start with work ─ explains Natalya Koroleva, senior consultant for Lux & Media at the Hays recruiting company.

On the one hand, changing jobs at the end of the year seems like a very logical decision: this is a good reason to draw a line in your career development and calculate your “final points”. In addition, the principle “start a new life on Monday” works here. But there is one important point which should not be overlooked. By the end of the year, we accumulate fatigue, including from the current place of work. This is completely normal. Believe me, most of your colleagues go through similar experiences. If so, I would not advise you to immediately think about changing jobs - with the normal course of events, your apathetic mood will pass by the beginning of February. But if this desire has been brewing for more than a month, you can start looking for options and consider proposals.

Postpone until February

If you are serious about changing companies, it is better to think about looking for a new job in advance - in August-September. The selection stages are not a quick process, especially when we are talking about leadership positions. A series of tests and interviews with different levels of management and headquarters (if we are talking about an international company) can take several months. Exact dates no one will call you, but you should not rely on the fact that everything will be decided in a couple of weeks. Especially in January.

If we talk about the liveliness of the market by the end of the year, it strongly depends on economic situation and company results. Of course, the number of proposals decreases by the time of the holidays, as top management often takes vacations, and Western colleagues leave for the holidays even earlier than we do. Therefore, if the goal is to watch the market, it is better to set yourself up that a new active period will begin in February. But nothing prevents you from monitoring the situation and keeping your finger on the pulse. If suddenly the “dream company” starts searching in December, you will have the opportunity to be the first to know about it.

Don't miss out on the annual bonus

With the transition to a new place in late December ─ early January, not everything is so simple, you can stumble upon pitfalls that you might not have thought about when you were in a hurry to enter the next year with new career opportunities. Many large companies pay out a fairly large annual merit bonus at the end of the year, which you can miss out on. If, despite this, you are not eager to stay at work and are in a hurry to transfer, this may be a wake-up call for a new potential employer: perhaps everything is not going well at your current place or you have not met the required indicators for receiving a bonus. If, when accepting an offer, you realized “What about my bonus?” Do not despair and talk to a potential employer. Host companies, as a rule, are sympathetic to the desire to receive a well-deserved bonus and start a new job in January.

Or still decide?

If there is no practice of annual bonuses in your company, it is still better to agree to go to work at the end of the year - in the December hurricane it will be easier to get involved in the business, get to know the team, make plans for the next year, understand the logic of decision-making in the company, and the New Year a corporate event can be a great step towards getting closer to future colleagues and immersing yourself in the corporate culture.

Usually, companies at this time conduct a review - sum up, discuss opportunities, plan a budget. The host company understands that the candidate may use the offer as an opportunity to discuss with the current employer their opportunities in the current company. Remember that a potential employer also weighs the risks and may be cautious about making an offer during this period.

A few important steps from Natalia Koroleva

Step 1: Be honest with yourself about why you want to change jobs.

If you do not understand the reasons, you can find yourself in a situation where you received an offer and suddenly thought: “Maybe this is just a series of bad days?” My experience is that the impulse that drives you to look for a new job does not just happen, it is always the result of lack of motivation, dissatisfaction, career ceiling in the current company, etc. And if now it seemed to you that you were just tired, after a conditional six months this desire will most likely arise again.

Step 2 Decide what you need.

This applies to the sphere, and career development, and salary expectations, ─ everything. The more clearly you define all your goals, the more likely it is that in the new year you will finally enter your dream job.

Step 3. Develop a search strategy.

The search itself is a methodical process. HH.ru is one of the most common resources. If you have little experience, your position is intermediate or entry level, then be sure to update your resume. This will help to collect more information about different markets and offers, you will be found faster and interaction will be more effective.

If you are in a leadership position, it is worth contacting a familiar consultant from a recruiting company, so your request will be correctly understood, and hundreds of phone calls will follow with offers that are unlikely to interest you. In our age of digitalization, often the search and communication with candidates takes place through Facebook, this is very fast way connections. Therefore, I recommend that you indicate the current position on your profile page. This will increase the chances that you will be found and offered something worthwhile. LinkedIn was also popular until recently, but now there are limitations in its use. But it's better to create a page there.

It's best to end your relationship with your current employer on a positive note - you never know what might happen tomorrow. If you feel that you will let your colleagues down by leaving, talk to the host company. Most likely, they will meet halfway there, and this step will characterize you as a responsible employee, and will only once again convince the new employer of the correctness of his decision.