Although interviewing and hiring decisions may slow down during the year-end holidays, it is a great time to network.  People are usually in a pretty good mood, they are talking and mingling and eating and travelling; so there are lots of chances for informal and social networking (the old-fashioned kind of face to face social networking).  Take advantage of the holiday mood and spirit of congeniality to make new contacts and revatilize relationships that may have gotten stale or have been...