> and employers don't seem desperate. Hiring follows predictable patterns throughout the year, namely the last month of the quarter is usually relatively hot.

> and employers don't seem desperate. Hiring follows predictable patterns throughout the year, namely the last month of the quarter is usually relatively hot. It's November now, so there's still ample time to fulfill recruitment KPIs. My experience is that hiring only picks up speed come mid-December, when there's simply fewer candidates than normally due to Christmas. That being said this September, which usually burns through the backlog from the summer vacation season, was unusually slow.