Pre-booked holiday before potential job

TBagpuss

A lot of employers will ask at the end of the interview, if they do, tell them. If not, you can either bring it up then or wait and raise it when you get an offer . but there's no reason not to bring it up at the end of the interview.
It's a common situation

Thrugelmir

How important is the job to you?  Any reasonable employer will be accomodating as far is possible. First though you need to focus on how to sell yourself to even be considered for the role. Other candidates maybe more flexible and happy to make sacrifices. 

General_Grant

OP can (in fact should) ask about the on-the-job or off-the-job training provided and try to establish whether it has fixed time commitments which might interfere with the holiday.

Sandtree

Agree with others to bring it up after receiving an offer and before accepting the offer. This is when you are in the strongest negotiating position. 

You should think ahead of what you will do if they say no... do you turn down the job or just not go on the holiday?

Own_Worst_Enermy

Last Autumn the NHS happily didn't want to understand I'd lost thee people (they had died one after each other) and might not need time time off for it, so good luck.

MalMonroe

At most interviews I've attended in the past I have been asked if I had any holidays booked. Most employers understand that people do book holidays. It's never been a problem and I haven't lost any job opportunities because of having booked them either.

MalMonroe

Own_Worst_Enermy said:

Last Autumn the NHS happily didn't want to understand I'd lost thee people (they had died one after each other) and might not need time time off for it, so good luck.

So very sorry to hear of your three bereavements. I've worked in the NHS and found my line managers very understanding when I suffered a bereavement.

I do understand it's different now though with coronavirus and things have changed, obviously. Not that that is any excuse. But this OP's situation is very different to yours.

TELLIT01

How understanding management is varies from person to person, let alone company to company.  When I worked for DWP I had a very good department manager who had great people skills.  Another department weren't so fortunate with one example being their manager visiting one of their staff in hospital who was recovering from a mastectomy, asking when they would be back in the office as her absence was causing a backlog of work.

However the fact that the manager with people skills was 'managed out' and the other one was promoted probably says more about the overall attitude of higher management there.

mcpitman

TELLIT01 said:

How understanding management is varies from person to person, let alone company to company.  When I worked for DWP I had a very good department manager who had great people skills.  Another department weren't so fortunate with one example being their manager visiting one of their staff in hospital who was recovering from a mastectomy, asking when they would be back in the office as her absence was causing a backlog of work.

However the fact that the manager with people skills was 'managed out' and the other one was promoted probably says more about the overall attitude of higher management there.

That manager would no longer work in any business I had anything to do with. That is disgusting behavior.

OP - if asked at interview, mention your holidays. If offered, best to mention then. Not many employers will have issues with it due to the notice you are providing.

Nddlb2

mcpitman said:

TELLIT01 said:

How understanding management is varies from person to person, let alone company to company.  When I worked for DWP I had a very good department manager who had great people skills.  Another department weren't so fortunate with one example being their manager visiting one of their staff in hospital who was recovering from a mastectomy, asking when they would be back in the office as her absence was causing a backlog of work.

However the fact that the manager with people skills was 'managed out' and the other one was promoted probably says more about the overall attitude of higher management there.

That manager would no longer work in any business I had anything to do with. That is disgusting behavior.

OP - if asked at interview, mention your holidays. If offered, best to mention then. Not many employers will have issues with it due to the notice you are providing.

Perfect thank you for the advice! Tbh if they do say no I'd still take the job, I'd just have to pay my dad the money it cost because its already paid for and can't be cancelled and he wont be happy if I can't go 🙈 hopefully they're understanding though because it's a university graduation gift that had to be rearranged because of covid, and we booked it when I thought I'd be in uni still studying for a second degree (dropped out of my second degree due to anorexia and been on disability ever since but finally ready to work again!)