The holidays are an excellent time to develop and create new contacts for your job search or career transition. Currently some of our leaners may still be writing their exams. Whilst others have downed their pens and are already engaged in festive activities. We thought that since it is holidays and people are in cheerful moods we would bring you some lighter yet important content. Tonight we will look at activities that young people, especially those who recently wrote their examinations can do while waiting for results. Every year as the holidays approach, most of our young people; jobseekers and career changers make the mistake of slowing down all their efforts in career building or management. They believe there is no point in researching; planning and pursuing career opportunities during the holidays, and that nobody is making recruitment decisions until late January, so “why bother?” Many decide to do absolutely nothing from mid - November to the second or third week in January! Making these kinds of assumptions about the holidays is, again, a huge mistake! When it comes to the holidays, I suggest that our youth and job seekers can do what all the others are not doing. Since most of them are taking an extended break, this opens up real opportunities for you! The reality is that the holidays are an excellent time to develop and create new contacts for your job search or career transition.