Having a lot of holidays booked before applying?

lisa110rry

Fraggy, it's also a case of whether you are going to be employed in a role where your time is going to be charged out to an upstream client. For our guys, who are Commercial Consultants in the Construction Industry, if they go over their leave entitlement or for some other reason are not working, this directly impacts cashflow.

Stylehutz

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I would always say that any booked holidays should be mentioned at interview. They may say if you would be able to take them and you could make a decision based on that. If you don't say until a job offer then they may well be very annoyed and refuse them on principle.

As said any holiday may be unpaid.

Then surely that question should have been asked by the interviewers at interview. It is a bog standard interview question which any competent interviewer would ask.

Why volunteer information that is likely to Jeopardise your chance of getting the job?

Torry_Quine

Stylehutz wrote: »

Then surely that question should have been asked by the interviewers at interview. It is a bog standard interview question which any competent interviewer would ask.

Why volunteer information that is likely to Jeopardise your chance of getting the job?

Interviewes are human and may forget to ask but you should not take that as meaning it will be alright. Why risk it, especially with such a large amount of holiday needed.

Alarae

I didn't mention them until I got a job offer, which I then advised I had these holidays prebooked. Then again, it isn't to the extent you are requiring as it was a few days between Christmas and New Year and then I'm taking two and a half weeks off in August.

You may have to compromise on one of those holidays.

[Deleted User]

If it is really important, advise is ask for the rules of a company/to see the company handbook up front if you possibly can.

Where we are there is at least 4 months of the year closed of purely to holiday requests.

There might be more leniency if they are not paying, seriously.

Stylehutz

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Interviewes are human and may forget to ask but you should not take that as meaning it will be alright. Why risk it, especially with such a large amount of holiday needed.

You say that but it should be in one of the top 3 priority questions that should be asked by an interviewer. They wouldn't forget to ask the candidate when can they start would they? The fact that they don't ask comes across that it isn't that important to them.

Torry_Quine

Stylehutz wrote: »

You say that but it should be in one of the top 3 priority questions that should be asked by an interviewer. They wouldn't forget to ask the candidate when can they start would they? The fact that they don't ask comes across that it isn't that important to them.

Really. There are far more important questions than do you have any holidays booked. Questions about experience, why you want to leave/left your last job and what you bring to the job are just three more important. In my experience it's not when can you start hughie much notice do you give as they will want you to start as soon as available,.

Savvy_Sue

We don't ask that question. We ask if you have any questions for us. We'd expect you to ask if there'd be any problems taking leave for any holidays already booked. Others do it differently. For us, with most of our jobs it wouldn't matter if you had something booked. But we've had some jobs where we had a key deadline to meet (an event to organise), and given a choice between two strong candidates one of whom wanted several weeks leave at the 'wrong' time, we'd choose accordingly.

TomIT

Personally, I asked after the interview and before signing the contract if it was OK for the employer for me to take unpaid leaves I had already booked. It didn't bother my employer.

Stylehutz

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Really. There are far more important questions than do you have any holidays booked. Questions about experience, why you want to leave/left your last job and what you bring to the job are just three more important. In my experience it's not when can you start hughie much notice do you give as they will want you to start as soon as available,.

Again you are volunteering information that is going to jeopardise your chance of getting the job. Why not go the whole hog and mention that disciplinary you faced last year or all those Monday mornings you phoned in for sick days.

The fact that the interviewer could not be arsed to ask the candidate a bog standard interview question puts the candidate in a stronger position to negotiate the job offer. Ergo, Yes thank you for the job offer but I need my holidays honoured that I have already booked to accept the job. Interviewer then will have option of giving job to the second choice of candidate and will miss out on their first choice best candidate.