Sent interview prep for another company to my new (yet to start) employer

Adriana1985

Hi guys
I just made a silly mistake. Last week I was offered a job which I accepted but also had an interview already in place for the following week (yesterday) for another role. I am keen on the job I was offered but went ahead with this interview anyway mainly because it was already booked in and in case the new employer changed anything between now and my start date in a couple weeks.

The two people I was dealing with have the same name and I stupidly sent an email to my current employer basically saying "here is my interview presentation that I will be going through". The email has been sent and can't be recalled. Only saving grace is an auto-reply saying he's away for the rest of the week. 

Any advice on how I manage this?

Malthusian

Ring up and ask who is dealing with John / Jane Smith's emails in their absence. Then tell them what you told us.

I have to say it doesn't look great. It looks mercenary to still be preparing for interviews (not just booked in for them) after accepting a job offer, and you're denying an interview place to someone who still actually needs a job.

I would tell whoever you end up speaking to that you still want the job, but as the other interview was already booked in before you got the offer, you felt obliged to see it through and didn't want to look like a timewaster.

If you're in luck the person subbing for Mx Smith will see the funny side, say "there but for the grace of God go I" and delete the email.

I wouldn't choose the other option of keeping quiet and hoping nobody notices, as something this unusual would jump out at me if I was Mx Smith going through my holiday email backlog.

I should probably also mention the other option of trying to recall the email, but in my experience that functionality is totally useless. If I see "So-and-so wants to recall the following email" I immediately drop what I'm doing to find out what they didn't want me to see before it disappears (and it usually doesn't disappear anyway).

Savvy_Sue

Hang on, it sounds like there are three parties involved: interviewer A and interviewer B have the same name, but you have sent an email to your current employer which indicates you are going to interviews? Just hope you have one of the new jobs in the bag before they are back. 

Or are you saying that Interviewer A is your 'current' employer? 

Edited: just read the title of the thread. So Employer A is not yet your current employer. Yes, as Malthusian suggested, phone and ask if anyone is dealing with X's emails. If no-one is (our messages usually say "resend to X if it's urgent"), then not a lot you can do except as already suggested. 

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Well hopefully if you do mean current employer, you'll be saved by only needing to hand in notice. Your title and last para are at odds with each other so hoping it is current. Once I applied to a quite dodgy company (boy did I wish I had put their name in a search engine just on sight of the job ad) and it turned out the person receiving the application was a neighbour to my current employer who ended up with my indeed cv... no one knows how many close shaves they've probably had with their Employer finding out, you won't be the first.

horsingaround123

The title is correct.
You can always ask them to provide your contract ASAP to show you are genuine? 

Are you in work at the moment? If not I would also cite that.

Question to answer - if offered the other job would you take it 

Adriana1985

For clarity, I am unemployed but accepted a job offer, signed the contract and due to start next week. 

prowla

Just say you were covering your options, in case this job fell through at the last minute.

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prowla said:

Just say you were covering your options, in case this job fell through at the last minute.

...which is happening in these times, more than ever.