If I were given £1/$1 for every time I am told between now and Christmas that “not much recruitment is going to happen in December” or “I don’t expect to be doing much until January” I would expect to have enough money to pay for all my family’s presents.

Both prospective candidates and possible recruiters are going to say this to me and I know that nothing I can type here is going to make a difference…

But let’s have a go…