I think I have told a few people (live and on email!) that I need to start blogging more regularly.  I just have had a hard time getting into the "Blogger Groove" if you will. I also don't want to blog and come off sounding like the pitch person for ECMG Services. Well, whether I like it or not, I AM the pitch person of ECMG.

The whole concept of the ECMG brand is to help people stay in front of other people who potentially will hire them into their organizations.  Our job is to land interviews and subsequently offers. There is no magic ball to look into --it is what it is. There is also NO particular time of the year when companies tend to interview or hire more. Business goes 24/7 - 365 days a year - right?   

For some strange reason, people seem to think that starting a job search or any other kind of business development/opportunity search or even PR campaign at year end is just not a good idea and that waiting for the New Year is better.  I ask this: WHY?

Do companies just shut down operations or do investment companies stop investing or stop deals they are looking to close....at the END of the year and pick it up in the New Year?  It used to be that bigger companies shut down during the holidays (I remember when a friend of mine worked for IBM - they took off the week before Christmas and between Christmas and New Years -- but that was in 1990! Companies cannot afford to do that in this day and age!  The only time hiring is ever SLOW is for perhaps a week if say the CEO is taking his/her vacation... but even if that is the case and they are interested in a hiring a specific person, it is ONLY for that ONE week (between Christmas and New Year most likely) that it will slow down and once the CEO is back the next week the interview is scheduled. So what, it's a week or so --and if you are on the mark to get the job, what is another week? At least you are in the mix and ready to go to the table with this CEO! Right?

NOW IS THE TIME for those seeking out new deals or job opportunities to GET IN THE GAME: no time like the present!  I tell all my clients that campaigns, public relations, marketing etc. NEVER can stop (not even through the holidays). So if you are waiting for the lovely New Year to set in and THEN do something about your situation - you need to rethink you plan. I have no problem with waiting if say you are having a baby or getting married or are very sick, but waiting just because it's "near the end of the year" is not the way to go. DO IT NOW, get in the GAME. If you are smart you will beat the other "it's the Holidays" suckers out!