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When do I bring this up?
I have an interview on Wednesday - finally! I really hope this works out...
I'm leaving Thursday to go visit my parents for the holidays and will remain out of town until January 20th (my husband is deployed and I am unemployed, so I figured I might as well head there now). My mom & I have a trip to Paris planned from the 10th-20th. I live in CA, she lives in FL, so due to flying time and ticket prices, I decided to stay there until our trip.
Usually the background check for this job takes about a month, so really I should be really close to being okay time-wise for the position... but I am wondering, when do I bring up my trip/time away? Do I tell them at the interview? Or do I wait until they offer me the job and then tell them?
I guess they will probably ask the earliest date I can start at the interview, at which point this question is pointless.
Thanks!
Re: When do I bring this up?
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
This. When I started at this company in October, DH and I had already booked a November vacation for us to Costa Rica way back in July, before I even applied for my job. When I was offered the position I said that I can start in mid-October, but on November 4-9 I needed to take those days off for a vacation already booked and scheduled. It wasn't a problem because I let them know about it up front and we worked around it.
If your new workplace won't give you ANY flexibility, you have to also think about if this is a trend and indicative of how they allocate and give allowances for time off. Several years ago, I took a job for a place that made me start Thanksgiving week when I was moving cross-country from Seattle to NYC and I had wanted to start the Monday after. They made me start the week of, so I was basically moved to NYC on a Saturday and started work on Monday, then had two days off (and I was staying on the couch of a friend since our apartment hadn't even vacated yet). And after that, taking ANY time off, whether for a three day weekend away was really hard. Like ridiculously hard.
My employer had no issues whatsoever with me taking a week off less than a month after I started, even though November/December is our busy season.
I would be less worried about start date and more worried about a potential second interview. Very few jobs are offered after just one interview, from my experience. So the difficulty may be in that you won't be in town to do an in-person second interview.
I had my first interview with my current company the week before my wedding/honeymoon, so I let my (now current boss) know that I would be out of town, but could likely make time for a phone call or Skype call. He was incredibly understanding and didn't end up scheduling the interview until I got back, but he later told me he was appreciative that I told him my schedule up front so that he didn't make "she'll start in 2 weeks" promises to his bosses."
There is only 1 interview, and then they do an on-site visit, but that is not an interview and that is once they have already decided who they are going to hire.
I went today and it went, seemingly, very well. They did tell me their ideal start date and asked me if that would work, I told them my travel dates (which would have me starting 2 weeks later), and one of the interviewers basically told me that wouldn't be a problem and they have a team in place that could handle it for a little while longer.
So we'll see...... sigh...