When I was hired - into a different LOB though - I applied in May, interviewed in August, and was hired to start on the first day of the last pay period of the fiscal year (Sep 27). I pushed that date as far as possible because I wanted to stay at my old job for as long as I possibly could, but I mention this because the end of August/beginning of September was definitely push time and a lot of things came together there at the very end.