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Why we're getting a prethanksgiving wave of hiring
Hello, Hoodies!
The last two weeks have felt like someone flipped a giant hiring switch back on.
Students who were ice-cold in October suddenly started landing:
Phone screens
Recruiter outreaches
“Can you interview this week?” emails
Full-blown panel interview invites
And yes—it’s happening in mid-November, literally right before Thanksgiving… traditionally one of the slowest hiring windows of the year.
So why is it happening?
Simple:
🟢 The Government Shutdown Ended — And Federal Cybersecurity Hiring Just Unclogged
Here’s the part most job-seekers never understand:
A federal budget freeze doesn’t just pause government hiring…
It pauses:
Federal agencies
Federal contractors
Subcontractors
State agencies tied to federal grants
Private companies waiting on federal PO renewals
MSPs tied to government customers
And most importantly…
IT HURTS THE STOCK MARKET
Stock market down = less investment = less projects = less hiring
Love it or hate it, it impacts YOU, even if you have no stocks at all
Cyber hiring is downstream from all of that.
When a shutdown hits, hiring managers tighten everything:
No new req approvals
No onboarding
No contractor renewals
No security clearances initiated
Purchasing freezes
Project timelines paused
Hiring pipelines turn into molasses.
But when a shutdown ends?
Everything restarts at once.
The market SOARS
Budgets unlock.
Unspent allocations must be used before end-of-year.
Backlogged reqs get instant approval.
Contractors scramble to staff projects.
Federal agencies rush to meet compliance requirements.
And cybersecurity is always at the front of the line because:
The compliance clock never stops
Vulnerabilities still need patching
ATOs need renewing
FedRAMP deadlines don’t care about politics
Incidents spike every holiday season
So when hiring unfreezes?
It surges.
And that’s exactly what we’re seeing.
🔥 Real Students. Real Interviews. Right Now.
Since the shutdown ended, our internal metrics have spiked:
Interview requests are SOARING compared to ALL of last month
Students with “0 traction for weeks” suddenly getting callbacks
Students getting same-day interview requests
And the best part?
They’re not magical unicorns.
They’re:
Students doing the labs
Students using the AI recruiter
Students pushing applications daily
Students following the BowTiedCyber job-hunting systems
The old saying rings true:
Fortune favors the prepared. And our students ARE prepared!
🦃 “But It’s Thanksgiving… Isn’t Hiring Dead?”
Normally? Sort of.
But not this year.
When you combine:
A just-ended budget freeze
Holiday compliance deadlines
Unspent Q4 budgets agencies must use
A massive shortage of cleared/eligible cyber talent
…you get a rare situation where Thanksgiving hiring actually accelerates.
We’ve seen this pattern before after previous freezes:
Agencies scramble before the calendar resets
Contractors hire aggressively to meet contract deliverables
Companies push to finalize headcount before Jan 1
And here’s the part most people never hear:
Thanksgiving week is a cheat code, because fewer applicants are active.
Normal job seekers “take the holidays off.”
BowTiedCyber students don’t.
Which is why they’re scooping up interviews while everyone else is watching football.
🧠 The Real Lesson Here
You can’t control:
Macro
Budgets
Political drama
Hiring freezes
The calendar
OR the stock market
But you can control:
Your skillset
Your labs
Your resume
Your applications
Your consistency
AND Your Preparedness
When the environment turns, it rewards the people who already built momentum.
And right now?
Momentum just came roaring back into cybersecurity hiring.
If you’re already in Zero to Hoodie Bootcamp or the Helpdesk Speedrun:
→ Keep pushing applications
→ Update your resume
→ Finish your labs
→ Reply to recruiters instantly
If you’re on the sidelines?
Now is the best window in months to get in motion.
Because the next 30–45 days will separate the people who get interviews in January…
from the people who restart in March and wonder “why nothing is happening.”
AND NOW YOU CAN DO IT FOR 75% OFF
BECAUSE WE BROUGHT BACK BOOTCAMP LITE
Perfect for those who aren’t willing to commit several months salary to changing their career, but want to go HARD for the next 3 months to double down and make 2026 their year
Full LMS access
Full AI access
Private discord community
But this sale won’t last long. We ONLY do something like this ONCE A YEAR.
All for a JAW DROPPING 75% off the price of our Full Zero to Hoodie Cybersecurity Bootcamp.
Your time is NOW!
Get in on the best deal of the year at bowtiedcyber.com!
But what if you actually NEEDED the FULL EXPERIENCE but don’t realize that until later???
No worries. We’ll CREDIT the cost of Bootcamp Lite to our FULL Cybersecurity Bootcamp, complete with mentorship, live weekly Q&A, and mock interviews. Upgrade ANYTIME!
You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. Go get in there and change your life.
That’s all for now
Get in there and go make it happen!
Cheers,
Evan Lutz (BowTiedCyber)