Sandeep Rao ·
Hiring is seasonal in most markets. Budgets reset, teams plan, and postings cluster in the weeks after those cycles
The practical takeaway is not to wait for a good month. It is to expect quiet stretches - late in the year, around major holidays - and not read them as evidence about you. If your applications go unanswered for three weeks in a period when nobody is at their desk, the data is about the calendar.
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