{"id":18650,"date":"2021-12-17T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/?p=18650"},"modified":"2021-12-20T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T14:24:01","slug":"why-you-should-continue-the-hiring-process-during-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/why-you-should-continue-the-hiring-process-during-the-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Continue the Hiring Process During the Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why You Should Continue the Hiring Process During the Holiday Season<\/h1>\n<p>Many companies tend to ease up on hiring processes towards the end of the year, but considering the current IT and Digital hiring markets, that might not be the wisest choice.\u00a0 Here are some reasons for you to continue and even accelerate the hiring process during the Holiday Season:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">New Year = New Job<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than any other time of the year, many IT and Digital Professionals set career goals towards the beginning of a new year to make a career change.\u00a0 This makes it the perfect time to continue your sourcing, recruiting and offer stages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">Less Competition<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With some companies putting the hiring process on the backburner, continuing your hiring process puts you at a competitive advantage with a candidate pool that is waiting on answers from others.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">Communicate!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s likely that some decision-makers will take time off during the Holiday Season but when it comes to the candidate experience, nothing can be worse than the interview and offer stages go silent.\u00a0 Communicating clear timelines and setting expectations with a candidate during a delay can mean the difference between securing or losing the individual during the process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">We\u2019re Here to Help<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although we\u2019re all gearing up for the Holidays at New Directions, IT &amp; Digital Staffing, this is always an extremely busy time of year for us and we\u2019re here to help.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/contact-us\/\">Contact us<\/a> today!<\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why You Should Continue the Hiring Process During the Holiday Season Many companies tend to ease up on hiring processes towards the end of the year, but considering the current IT and Digital hiring markets, that might not be the wisest choice.\u00a0 Here are some reasons for you to continue and even accelerate the hiring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newdirectionsstaffing.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}