{"id":11337,"date":"2019-12-18T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/uk\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2022-08-12T18:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T17:07:45","slug":"job-searches-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/uk\/blog\/2019\/12\/18\/job-searches-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Searches Spike Monday After New Year\u2019s Day But Employers Lag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Getting a new job is a common New Year\u2019s resolution. As a result, job search ramps up quickly in early January. The first or second Monday after New Year\u2019s Day typically registers the highest number of job searches on Indeed in the entire year.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By comparison, employers and recruiters are slow to react. True, the number of job postings grows in January. Yet that growth tends to be gradual in contrast with the rapid build-up in search. Job postings typically reach their January peak at the very end of the month, meaning some employers and recruiters miss part of the early January search activity. The pattern is similar for jobs posted directly by employers or through recruitment firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"974\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/02171455\/UK-job-search-patterns.png\" alt=\"Some recruiters miss the early January spike in jobseeker activity\" class=\"wp-image-11339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/02171455\/UK-job-search-patterns.png 974w, https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/02171455\/UK-job-search-patterns-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/02171455\/UK-job-search-patterns-768x611.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px\" \/><figcaption>Two line graphs one representing job searches and the other representing job postings on Indeed.co.uk around January 2019.  Job searches on the first Monday after New Year&#8217;s Day was the busiest day of the year for job search.  Job postings around the same time were very low increasing slowly in the new year, lagging the early January spike in job search.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do some employers and recruiters wait so long to post jobs in the new year? Perhaps they think early jobseekers aren\u2019t serious about their resolution to find a new job and they wait for more determined candidates. But the evidence doesn\u2019t support this skepticism. Jobseekers appear to search with similar intensity throughout January. Later in the month, people click on jobs that appear in their Indeed search results and apply to them at roughly the same rate as in the first full week of January.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe the delays are simply caused by the time it takes recruiters to get budgets for new positions approved and prepare job descriptions. While it\u2019s fairly easy for a jobseeker to start looking for a new position \u2014 all it takes is launching an Internet browser or a mobile app \u2014 recruiters need several weeks to get their hiring activity off the ground.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking ahead to the January spike in job search, it may be worth preparing the new year\u2019s recruitment campaigns before the old year is out. All those people making resolutions to find new jobs start the new year with a flurry of search activity. Even in the relatively slow period between Christmas and the New Year, more than one million job searches are carried out on Indeed most days. Employers and recruiters might consider making their own resolutions \u2014&nbsp; post jobs early to get the attention of those quick-off-the-block jobseekers.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job postings grow gradually in January, but much of the rise comes after an early January spike in job searches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":11341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"recruiter-hub-blocks.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mwm_category":[351],"post_topic":[],"post_content_type":[],"post_duration":[],"post_actions":[],"post_franchise":[],"post_mwm_author":[322],"class_list":["post-11337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_mwm_category-jobseeker-behaviour","post_mwm_author-padrjan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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