During hiring freezes are there ever exceptions made for positions that really need to be filled? When a recruiter says the position could reopen any day, do they really mean it?

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I've interviewed during hiring freezes, even eventually got an offer after one ended.

When recruiters tell you that the freeze could end "any day," they don't mean they're expecting it to end soon. What they mean is that they have no visibility into when it will end. It could end tomorrow, or in two years. There is no set end date or officially designated duration for them to reference - often, they are as in the dark as you are.

I have some sympathy for recruiters in this situation because their job is to somehow keep hiring pipelines full even when they know they won't be able to extend offers, and the ones that are transparent and upfront about that deserve some measure of respect for their honesty. But that doesn't mean you should put your search on hold. Unless the freeze has a definite, defined end-date, you should assume it's permanent and keep looking.

Furthermore, it's unlikely that any COVID-related hiring freezes will be resolved in 2020 - this pandemic will shit on the economy AT LEAST through the summer, and even after it's gone, clients will be very cautious with their budgets. It will take a fairly sustained period of economic growth before clients feel safe enough to resume making commitments and signing SOWs at a pre-COVID level, which means that the agencies that serve them may not go back to business-as-normal until like summer 2021.

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