More than half of recruiters (about 58 percent) expect to work full time in the office until the end of the year while 30 percent of recruiters plan to do so until the middle of December, based on a recent poll by Top Echelon Network, a group of network of specialized search firms.
Among the remaining respondents, only 2.9 percent say they plan to work full time up until Thanksgiving, and 9.5 percent say they are going to work full-time up until the middle of December but they may stop working earlier.
Top Echelon Network states that one of the traditional advantages to working as a recruiter is the reduced activity at the end of the year. Of the recruiters with especially good years, they often shut down their desks following Thanksgiving or at the beginning of December. In other cases, they at least stop working full time until the beginning of the new year.
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But today's economy is putting a stop to that, and these survey results back that claim, Top Echelon maintains.
"I have conversations with recruiters all the time, and many of them have told me that they're enjoying a good year in 2012," says Mark Demaree, president of Top Echelon Network. "However, they have also told me that they've had to work harder and longer to enjoy that good year. There is still money to be made by recruiters who are good at what they do, but it might require more effort, and that effort includes working full-time throughout the holiday season."
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