3 Reasons to Apply Between Thanksgiving & Christmas
Hired: Talent VP on Job Interviews, Negotiation & Offers
Hired Podcast
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:38.8 | If you're on the job hunt or prepping for it, here's something that I've never heard |
| 0:44.4 | said before, but it's important and true. The holidays are a very, very good time to apply |
| 0:51.7 | for a job. I've been in the hiring business for about 12 years now, |
| 0:56.1 | maybe a little more, and watch and waited for applications to come in every year from about |
| 1:03.1 | the week before Thanksgiving until about a week after January 1st. Applications go way, way down during that time. |
| 1:13.6 | Typically, you might be one of 50, 100, 150, or more applications that come in during just a week. |
| 1:24.0 | During this month and a half span, my guess would be the applications go down 75, maybe 80%. |
| 1:31.3 | People are busy traveling with the holidays. |
| 1:33.7 | They don't want to interview. |
| 1:35.3 | You know, they don't want to get an interview, say, a couple days before Christmas or on Christmas Eve. |
| 1:39.3 | I get it. |
| 1:40.6 | But this opens a huge opportunity for you to apply and stand out from the noise of so many other applicants. |
| 1:49.9 | The other side of this is that the recruiters, sure, they'll have a couple days off around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but they also will have plenty of work over the next month. |
| 2:02.2 | They need people to apply. |
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