Ummm...you lie. Is this question for real?
yes. I believe in career karma and lying to your (possible) future employer lacks ethics.
Ummm...you lie. Is this question for real?
yes. I believe in career karma and lying to your (possible) future employer lacks ethics.
Truth be told, it's none of their business how you got the time off. If you are one of their better applicants, they should simply be happy that you did.
yes. I believe in career karma and lying to your (possible) future employer lacks ethics.
I check "do not contact my current employer", and then I go to random "doctors appointments" or other miscellaneous tasks.
Vacation. Taking a sick day for it is a dick move. How would it look if the interviewer asked how you got the time off?
Sick days are meant to be used as you see fit in my book.
You are entitled to personal days, yes? Or, just schedule to be out of the office in the morning or afternoon. Tell them you have a doctor's appointment.I was wondering how people did this. Since most interview offers I've come across happen in ~1 week of the actual call how did you get out of work to hit up the interview?
Nope. They can then just fire you for not dedicating your time to your job.Did you let your current employer know that you're doing interviews and that they should be expecting interruptions in your work schedule in the coming weeks/months?
One week's notice for a "doctor's appointment" should be fine.I know a lot of places would require a decent heads up notice for using your time off unless you're calling out sick. This makes it hard to ask for time off in a timely manner when you have to go to interviews. At least that's my experience.
Again, just schedule a 1/2 day off of work. Make it so that you leave early.How does one go about this?
I am not sure why people would judge people because they lied about a sick day. No one in their right mind would go and advertise that they were looking for another job to the current employer.
Well, honesty is a basic quality any employer is looking for. By saying you're going to the doctor but instead going to seek employment elsewhere, you're just lying.
If I tell my boss I need to leave early to make an appointment, (notice I didn't claim I was going to a doctor because thats a lie) that's perfectly fine.
But you still mislead them in the end....
Well, honesty is a basic quality any employer is looking for. By saying you're going to the doctor but instead going to seek employment elsewhere, you're just lying.
If I tell my boss I need to leave early to make an appointment, (notice I didn't claim I was going to a doctor because thats a lie) that's perfectly fine.
I do not understand why this is so complicated. You guys act like the interviewer will spend much of his/her time interrogating you to determine if you took off for vacation and/or sick. Everybody knows youre looking for another job and likely you are going to be off in some way. Personally if the future potential boss is going to call your current employer to determine if he/she is sick, I would not want to work with that person. Ive been to several interviews and have never been asked any question around this.
a lot of places i've interviewed understood the difficulty of leaving in the middle of the work day for an interview and would schedule interviews either early morning or after business hours. when that wasn't feasible i would make up an excuse to have to step out of the office.
I don't know about you guys, but my current employer was completely understanding I was looking for work elsewhere (current contract ends end of month).
That said, a lot of my interviews were over the phone. I've had more phone interviews in the last couple of months, than actual sit-down interviews.
You dont have to be physically sick (e.g. feverish etc...) to qualify for taking a sick day. I call them "mental health days", for when you need a day to catch up, relax and not be bothered with work.
You dont have to be physically sick (e.g. feverish etc...) to qualify for taking a sick day. I call them "mental health days", for when you need a day to catch up, relax and not be bothered with work.
You are the reason companies switch to 'short-term disability' and mandatory documentation of all (supposedly) involuntary time off, etc.
You call them 'mental health days'. The rest of us call that stealing time and money from your employer.
That's fine but that's not a sick day. If I need a day off and it's not something I feel comfortable telling the company about I just tell them that I have some personal stuff to take care of. People here seem to be suggesting calling or emailing your boss the day of the interview and claiming to be to sick to come in.
If you have combined sick/personal/vacation time than it's moot anyway.