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Do not put your job search on hold over the holidays.

Yes, the job market is stinky for more the public right now, and a quick turnaround isn’t likely.

But there are couple reasons job hunters should keep looking through December:

• Employers who expect to superadd rod in January — and recruiters tell me there are some — have their 2009 budgets in place and are interviewing for those positions.

• Many of your fellow job hunters, either out of general holiday busyness or bringing to nought, will take the next not many weeks off.

You can induce a leg up on the contest through continuing a well-targeted job look for now.

That doesn’t mean firing off réstate in briefés or applications to dozens of jobs you find posted up without ceasing the Internet. It means zeroing in on real, logical possibilities — jobs that fit your skills, interests and experience.

You acquire to recognize that employers be able to be very, very selective these days. They are looking for exquisite candidates. They don’t meagreness to spend note the rate of or money in training or testing the waters to see if your background adapts to the new work at jobs.

You will frustrate yourself if you’re trying to make a wholesale career shift these days. Stick with what you be aware of, at least for now.

And stick with whom you know.

Holiday parties are the perfect time to be joined — to network. Go everywhere you’re invited and maybe even crash a few professional association get-togethers.

Let it (ahem) slip in conversation that you’re in the job market. Just don’t grieve or live on it. Be sprightly, to use a holiday-themed expression..

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