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A call to optimism

Good news: Many companies' recruitment freezes are already starting to thaw.  Meanwhile, Jayne has been getting a surprising number of replies to the email she's been sending to candidates:

'Despite all the gloom and doom in the media, our consultants are at the coal face of recruitment and are reporting a much more positive outlook for January and the year ahead. The indications are that many of our clients will be recruiting quite aggressively in the new year and that the current slowdown in recruitment is seasonal as much as anything else.

In light of this we recommend that if you do plan to keep an eye out for fresh challenges next year, you beat the January rush and register your updated details with HTS asap.  We'll then get in touch to discuss anything that matches your skills, experience and preferences...'

Candidates on our database who haven't been in touch for ages are emailing to express appreciation for this glimmer of positivity.  People are starving for a bit of good news, it seems.

I'm starting to suspect that the economy is a sort of phantom summoned by the collective wizardry of the population's beliefs and assumptions about the health of our national finances.  Confidence - a mere mental state, last time I checked - feeds it; lack of confidence makes it wither.  If nobody had ever thought that the economy was in such trouble, it might not have ended up in such trouble.  So perhaps it is time for us to treat the economy (and the jobs market, by extension) as a servitor or golem, and effectively tell it what to do by spreading as much positive news as we can get our hands on...