{"id":7260,"date":"2016-12-11T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterindia.com\/career-advice\/10-tips-to-job-hunt-over-the-holidays-7260\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T13:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T08:07:26","slug":"10-tips-to-job-hunt-over-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/10-tips-to-job-hunt-over-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"10 tips to job hunt over the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">\u201cEverything slows down over Christmas and New Year. There\u2019s no point in continuing my job search until everyone is back at work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">If this sounds like you, we\u2019ve only got one thing to say\u2026 No way!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Despite popular belief, hiring continues over the holiday period &#8211; in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. Yes, certain sectors slow down, and some companies will put off actually making any hires over Christmas, but that doesn\u2019t mean the process of applying and interviewing for jobs grinds to a halt!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">In fact, if you get your ducks in a row, continuing your job search over the holidays could give you an edge over your competition. Why wait until every man and his dog is applying for the same role come January?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Here are some tips to keep momentum with your search over the silly season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/media.monsterindia.com\/cmsimages\/1481466220.jpg\" alt=\"Xmas Job Search Tips\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Want more advice like this? Check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/content.monster.com.ph\/career\/\">Career Centre<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverything slows down over Christmas and New Year. There\u2019s no point in continuing my job search until everyone is back at work.\u201d If this sounds like you, we\u2019ve only got one thing to say\u2026 No way! Despite popular belief, hiring continues over the holiday period &#8211; in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. Yes, certain sectors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-job-search-strategy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21484,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions\/21484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.com.ph\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}