How do I continue to go on interviews when starting a new job?

square-pants

bevanuk wrote: »

Why accept a 12 month contract if you don't intend to work it?
It's messing the company around and someone else who could have had 12 months work.

Take it sick - you don't intend on staying anyway so why have a conscious now.

I agree with this, you shouldn't have accepted the job if you have other opportunities in the pipeline and are already planning days off before you've even started.

This job could have gone to someone else more committed who really needed the job and didn't have other opportunities in the pipeline. Not to mention the fact that it costs the company to advertise the position, interview and train you/show you the ropes.

Daedalus

bevanuk wrote: »

Why accept a 12 month contract if you don't intend to work it?
It's messing the company around and someone else who could have had 12 months work.

Take it sick - you don't intend on staying anyway so why have a conscious now.

square-pants wrote: »

I agree with this, you shouldn't have accepted the job if you have other opportunities in the pipeline and are already planning days off before you've even started.

This job could have gone to someone else more committed who really needed the job and didn't have other opportunities in the pipeline. Not to mention the fact that it costs the company to advertise the position, interview and train you/show you the ropes.

So people are telling the unemployed to take any job going and now you are saying not to?

Most people take a job that isn't ideal but they need a job, this is no different. Yes it is bad on a company, but it is a company, they are only restricted by law or PR in their screwing of employees.

By this logic you shouldn't look for another job if you got one, it is unfair on the employer who has to find someone new

square-pants

Daedalus wrote: »

So people are telling the unemployed to take any job going and now you are saying not to?

Most people take a job that isn't ideal but they need a job, this is no different. Yes it is bad on a company, but it is a company, they are only restricted by law or PR in their screwing of employees.

By this logic you shouldn't look for another job if you got one, it is unfair on the employer who has to find someone new

Firstly, your dim view of companies does not apply to all. A lot of companies treat their employees well. This could be a small company that is just keeping it's head above water, they don't need the additional costs of advertising, interviewing and training another employee a few weeks down the line. (Even if it's a large company, why should they have to put up with this too)

Secondly, I never said that it's not okay to look for another job when you're in employment already. A lot of people do that, it's good that people want to better their prospects.

But it's not fair to accept a job and then be dreaming up excuses to take time off to attend interviews for other jobs BEFORE YOU EVEN START. Someone who genuinely wanted the job and would have been a great asset to the company could have been given the opportunity.

Another employer won't even take you seriously when they ask about your current employment and you explain that you started there last week.

System

As an employer, I hope a decent caring one, I would be impressed by a new starter's honesty if when accepting my offer he explained that he did still have a couple of other applications in hand, and he felt he ought to follow those through, if only to confirm that my job was the one he really wanted.

There is no point taking on someone who pretends he really wants the job, but leaves after a month because he has been surrepticiously looking for other jobs. Honesty is what decent employers are looking for. Everyone knows people apply for a batch of jobs, not just one, and it is no comfort to an employer to get the feeling he has just taken on someone that no one else wants.

Aryndeneth

PasturesNew wrote: »

It can be almost impossible; interviews are often an offered time/date without flexibility - and in a new job it can be difficult/impossible to ask for time off and get it.

You really have to just wait and see what happens.... take each interview offer and see if they'll give you a choice and see if you can get time off. If it's a job you REALLY want ..... you'll have to lie/deceive and invent a Dr appointment or dentist at short notice.

I'd be wary of inventing an appointment. There was a really long thread on here recently from someone who lied about having an appointment so they could go to an interview and then their present employer asked them to provide proof of the appointment. He/she ended up having to potentially jump through an awful lot of hoops to get out of the situation or be caught out in the lie. Can't find the thread, did we ever find out how that one ended?

bevanuk

Daedalus wrote: »

So people are telling the unemployed to take any job going and now you are saying not to?

Most people take a job that isn't ideal but they need a job, this is no different. Yes it is bad on a company, but it is a company, they are only restricted by law or PR in their screwing of employees.

By this logic you shouldn't look for another job if you got one, it is unfair on the employer who has to find someone new

What a moron.

I can't even be bothered to respond to your childish points.

jonathan_lyod

You need to be very selective in the interviews you attend...you cannot hope to attend 3-4 interviews in a week. So try and schedule 1 interview every 10 days or so. Research as much as possible about the positions you are applying for and apply only if you are reasonably sure of the position - and prepare extremely well for the interviews you do decide to attend. Also realize that with this plan, you need to say yes/no to every offer you get...you cannot line up 3 offers and then choose. And as unethical as it may sound - you will need to make excuses like being sick. No employer is THAT understanding