🔍 Job Hunting in Q4: Should You Even Try?
Q4 is… a vibe.
Well, it’s one of two vibes. It’s either office Halloween shenanigans, the only time you see Susan in Accounts Payable (because her pumpkin pie is better than your mom’s), and Christmas cocktail hour right before the CEO sends everyone home to “check their email every once in a while” for the remainder of the year.
OR
It’s balls-to-the-wall, nail-biting, everyone’s-getting-fired-next-week bedlam.
There’s no in-between.
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Neither of these bode well for your job search; your cute little application either got lost on the way to the bar or is sitting at the bottom of a dumpster fire.
“Do I just not bother looking for a job in Q4?”
Radio silence is never good (unless…. It’s that one ex… you know) but you can’t just keep sending resumes and expecting to get a response before January of next year.
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Instead, get to networking.
Every company known to the State Comptroller is having some kind of holiday thing. Get yourself on the invite list. Every professional organization is having one too. Buy your ticket, get fresh business cards, and be exactly where your resume can’t get to: in front of the hiring manager’s face.
That way, when the hangover fades and the dumpster fire spits out its last puff of sad sad smoke, that hiring manager knows they’ve already met you. They liked you. Somehow, you seemed to already fit in with the company. Hmmm wonder how they got that idea? 😉
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