Time to get a good job!

It can not be explained by seasonality. From now and till late Jan or late Feb there has to be NO increase in hiring. Yet, it appears that hiring managers are in a hiring frenzy! From my recent experience, two intersting observations.

1. Consulting and hiring companies are being kicked out of business. Companies are well equipped to do the hiring themselves.
2. Only specialists with over 10 years of experience are in great demand.

This all, of course, is an observation for the field I'm in: software development. Hard to complain about that :)

Also, a weird story. During one day I got someone calling me. First time, he presented himself as a recruter with a big consultancy and then he talked me into telling him which companies are interviewing. After having heard some company names, he started asking names of hiring managers. An incident? Couple of hours I get another call, a guy presents himself as a recruter with _another_ consultancy, and a few minutes into conversation I realise he's following the same script! Another minute, and I'm certain it's the same guy. My guess is (and this is to prove the point #1), consultancies have big-name-company hiring managers listed from the haydays of 2000. And they want back a piece of business they thought was theirs. Not anymore.