There are many advantages to being a successful executive recruiter. One of those advantages has traditionally been the luxury of winding down the activity level on your desk toward the end of the calendar year.
For some recruiters, if they’ve enjoyed a particularly good year, they’ve shut down their desk after Thanksgiving or at the beginning of December. At the very least, they didn’t work their desk full-time until the beginning of the New Year.
However, it looks as though the current state of the economy (or the “new economy”) is changing all of that.
At least, that’s what the results of our most recent recruiter poll seem to indicate. We polled recruiters from all across the country by posing the question below:
How much longer do you plan to work your recruiting desk full-time in 2012?
The choice of answers that we provided is listed below, along with the percentage of recruiters who selected each one:
- Up until Thanksgiving—2.9%
- Up until the middle of December—9.5%
- Up until Christmas—29.9%
- I plan to work full-time all the way through the end of the year—57.7%
As you can see, over half of respondents (57.7%) indicated that they “plan to work full-time all the way through the end of the year.” Of the remaining poll participants, 29.9% chose “up until the middle of December” as their answer.
In short, that means 87.6% of recruiters are going to be working on their desk full-time up until at least Christmas (and the majority of those are going to work past Christmas).
In addition, another 9.5% are going to work full-time “up until the middle of December,” and only 2.9% plan to do so “up until Thanksgiving,” which is later this week.
What about YOU? How long do you plan to work full-time in 2012? All the way until the end of the year? If so, why?