With the holiday season upon us, conventional wisdom says to forget about finding a job at this time of year. Supposedly, this season is the bane of the job seeker, the time when it is impossible to reach anyone, when the conscientious job hunter’s efforts inevitably stall because no one is hiring until January.

All that gloom and doom often stops job hunters dead in their tracks. Savvy job hunters, however, have reaped great benefits from recognizing that much of conventional wisdom is outdated or false information.