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Title: Interview etiquette...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 March 2015, 14:26:16
I recently applied for three very different jobs...

Last week I received two interview invitations... One tomorrow and tother next Tuesday. All good so far, but today I received an invitation for the third position.

This is also next Tuesday, about half an hour after the first one and 40 miles away, and involves group excercises, so is an immovable feast.

Job 1 is local, job 2 is 40 miles away but much better pay and job 3 is 25 miles away similar money to job 1 but 4 on/4 off...

How best to approach the interview clash :-\
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 02 March 2015, 15:23:33
Depends on your gut feeling on each of the opportunities as to which one you try to get rearranged, IMHO. Not sure anyone else can answer that.

But.. Group exercise or not, much better pay or not, if they expect you to down tools and turn up at a time of their specification with no possibility to rearrange it, then that would ring alarm bells for me, personally. Tell them you have a work commitment for your current employer and you're not prepared to let them down. If they don't accept that, they either don't want you badly enough, or don't value integrity. ;)
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: aaronjb on 02 March 2015, 15:24:20
or don't value integrity. ;)

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Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 02 March 2015, 15:26:16
or don't value integrity. ;)

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Hence the little smiley. ;D
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 March 2015, 15:42:44
Both jobs 1 and 2 are for the same employer in different places and I was given a selection of times/dates,  the alternatives for which are no longer available :-\

Job 3 will likely have chosen 20 people to call in for a four hour session.

Will give the third one a ring to see about alternatives.

Current employer is me btw, and next thing in the diary is the Wycombe meet...
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: tigers_gonads on 02 March 2015, 15:55:47
Priority goes to the one you have the best chance of getting  :y
Also, if its a lady, DON'T LOOK AT HER TITS  ;D ;D

Good luck anyway  :)
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: aaronjb on 02 March 2015, 16:04:31
Priority goes to the one you have the best chance of getting  :y

That, to an extent - unless you're not desperate, in which case I'd give priority to the one with the best work/life/salary balance (and include commuting time into that equation)..
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: EMD on 02 March 2015, 19:35:56
Priority goes to the one you have the best chance of getting  :y
Also, if its a lady, DON'T LOOK AT HER TITS  ;D ;D

Good luck anyway  :)

Thats not possible is it  ::)
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Terbs on 02 March 2015, 19:57:52
As per title...but not appertaining to Al.....

Years ago, I asked the job centre to send me applicants for a job I had going in the spray shop. I told them I wanted experienced workers.
They sent me a 'gentleman' who was wearing a multi-coloured woollen hat, with masses of curls hanging beneath it. He sat down, and only put his bloody foot on my desk. !!! I told him to remove it. When asked why he wanted the job, the answer was..'I want to be near my chick, man'. 'Are you experienced with spraying'. 'No man, I live in London, and want to see my chick more'.
Needless to say he did not get the job.
When I complained to the job centre about the interview, and lack of etiquette, I was told I could not pick and choose.
So keep your boots off the desk, Al ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 March 2015, 20:03:36
Polishing the soles of my shoes as I type ;D
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Webby the Bear on 02 March 2015, 20:35:50
Good luck al, whichever avenue you choose.

I remember I had an interview with lunn poly years ago when I though t I wanted to be a travel agent  ::) the interviewer was a tidy cougar and I couldn't stop staring at her underwear she had on show  :o

Didn't get the job. Wonder what that meant  :-\ ;D
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: redelitev6 on 02 March 2015, 21:40:22
 :y" Use the force Luke ", is the only advice I can come up with
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 02 March 2015, 23:00:49
As per title...but not appertaining to Al.....

Years ago, I asked the job centre to send me applicants for a job I had going in the spray shop. I told them I wanted experienced workers.
They sent me a 'gentleman' who was wearing a multi-coloured woollen hat, with masses of curls hanging beneath it. He sat down, and only put his bloody foot on my desk. !!! I told him to remove it. When asked why he wanted the job, the answer was..'I want to be near my chick, man'. 'Are you experienced with spraying'. 'No man, I live in London, and want to see my chick more'.
Needless to say he did not get the job.
When I complained to the job centre about the interview, and lack of etiquette, I was told I could not pick and choose.
So keep your boots off the desk, Al ;D ;D ;D

I interviewed a guy about 10 years ago, whose mobile phone rang during the interview. He answered it, had a conversation for a couple of minutes and was taken aback when I told him to see himself out when he finally finished his call. ::)
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 02 March 2015, 23:25:48
Good luck! :y
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Rods2 on 02 March 2015, 23:30:10
Priority goes to the one you have the best chance of getting  :y
Also, if its a lady, A tactful glance is okay but DON'T CONSTANTLY STARE AT HER TITS  ;D ;D

Good luck anyway  :)

Fixed. ;D ;D
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 02 March 2015, 23:31:32
The work life balance would play a big part for me.

4 on 4 off sounds good, although I guess the days you'd be on would be 12 hrs

I couldn't do a 9-5 anymore, I love restdays in the week :y
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 March 2015, 23:59:40
Thanks all... feet off desk, no staring and no phones :D :y
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 03 March 2015, 00:09:25
Priority goes to the one you have the best chance of getting  :y
Also, if its a lady, A tactful glance is okay but DON'T CONSTANTLY STARE AT HER TITS  ;D ;D

Good luck anyway  :)

Fixed. ;D ;D

and... If she notices, shit or bust. Complement her on them. ;D
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 03 March 2015, 16:29:42
Went well, I thinkhope... nice blonde lass for the individual interview, eye contact all the way ::) and her and a branch manager for the group one...

Hopefully find out Friday for that...
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 03 March 2015, 17:31:03
Good Luck Al!!  :y :y :y
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: BazaJT on 03 March 2015, 20:38:54
Good luckfor Friday.
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 03 March 2015, 23:13:07
Ta muchly :y
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Andy B on 03 March 2015, 23:21:24
Anything in particular that has prompted a change in occupation?  :-\
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 03 March 2015, 23:23:17
Anything in particular that has prompted a change in occupation?  :-\

Bloody dosey parker Mr P ::)
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Vamps on 03 March 2015, 23:24:20
Polishing the soles of my shoes as I type ;D

So you must have been an HMS Ganges lad yourself............... :y :y
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 03 March 2015, 23:26:28
Good luck Al :y
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Andy B on 03 March 2015, 23:27:28
Polishing the soles of my shoes as I type ;D

So you must have been an HMS Ganges lad yourself............... :y :y

Nobody else is old enough to remember Ganges Mike  ::)
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Andy B on 03 March 2015, 23:29:22
Anything in particular that has prompted a change in occupation?  :-\

Bloody dosey parker Mr P ::)
:-X
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Vamps on 03 March 2015, 23:30:40
Polishing the soles of my shoes as I type ;D

So you must have been an HMS Ganges lad yourself............... :y :y

Nobody else is old enough to remember Ganges Mike  ::)

So it's just the three of us, You, Me and Phil; been having a clear out of a 'unit' damaged by water and came across a couple of photo's from the day.............. :-\ :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 04 March 2015, 13:25:09
Conundrum solved... One interview rearranged... :y
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Varche on 04 March 2015, 14:00:20
well done, best of luck :y
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: Webby the Bear on 04 March 2015, 17:53:53
Priority goes to the one you have the best chance of getting  :y
Also, if its a lady, A tactful glance is okay but DON'T CONSTANTLY STARE AT HER TITS  ;D ;D

Good luck anyway  :)

Fixed. ;D ;D

and... If she notices, shit or bust. Complement her on them. ;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Interview etiquette...
Post by: BazaJT on 04 March 2015, 18:35:27
Add another one who knows of HMS Ganges,dad was there at some point in his navy days and he took me as a schoolboy to the passing out parade of a recruit he'd known since said recruit was a boy living at side of dads workplace .