I applied for a better more interesting job

Now my only other problem is, I am getting an operation on my sinuses in the next month to six weeks, if I do get the job I'm going to have to (a)not do my month's notice at my current job and sort of screw over my boss there who is sound or (b) tell the new job I've been fucked healthwise for the last year, though the op should sort all this out.

FWIW it's better to be honest in the interview with all this. If they like you enough they'll make allowances. Better that then for them to give you the job and for you then to go "I've been fucked healthwise for the past year and have to take time out to have an operation". They might not take too kindly to that.

Matt DC is wise. Also if you have any holiday plans let them know if they start talking seriously. You will be last on the list for the good days so you may as well have them cleared. Don't worry about the health thing, mention it but also make it clear that you didn't miss much work (even if you did :) ) and that the operation should resolve everything.

Is this in the same field you're currently in or something brand new?

Everyone's advice here is very sound. Be upfront and tell them. If they want you for the job they will work around it, as long as you are enthusiastic and obviously qualified. Better for them to get a really good employee who comes with some teething troubles than having to take second best.

There is a far greater chance of my meeting you if you go to live in London, you know.

I wish you the best luck in the world. Let me know how it goes.

I don't think it's a two interview type job.

After the initial applications they mailed everyone and said they had been inundated with responses and to decide who to interview they asked 3 questions, basically getting your ideas and plans for if you got the job. I think there were about 20 people on that initial shortlist. So I reckon it'll be just one interview.

It's the same field as I'm in, records, basically, but on a far bigger scale, an online store based in Soho but selling all around the world, very trendy at the moment.

So I figure there won't be second interviews, I suspect anyway, so should I mention the op on Monday? Or wait until offered the job and then say this is something I had already cleared with my present employer, and have booked etc.

This is all a bit scary, and sudden, I hadn't planned for this at all but I definitely want the job and know it would be a really good career move. Just the thought of being gone from Dublin potentially in the next 5 or 6 weeks is a bit scary!

This.

Or wait until offered the job and then say this is something I had already cleared with my present employer, and have booked etc.

Not this.

Also, see you Monday?

Andrew speaks truth, say it at i/v. It'll be fine, seriously. They probably won't bat an eyelid. Sure aren't the English constantly waiting for surgery and transplants and things! Best of luck, it makes it all the more exciting that it's happening so fast. Let us know how it goes!

I am perhaps alone in thinking that the operation is none of their sodding business.

But I guess I don't want to get the new job and be Nando Morientes.

Isn't it just that Dublin is sending in replacements for all the ones that came up to Glasgow?

So of course other people could blow them away yet, but as far as I can see it couldn't have gone much better.

It really felt today like the second guy had been told "I really like this guy, what do you think?" cos he was just like chatting informally and the only real question he asked was "what specific music are you into, I didn't get a feel for that on your cv", which was a pretty easy one to answer.

x-post, so hopefully I get it!

I'm a consumer not a thinker Trish. Is this true though? Are you moving over Ken C?

heh, what was your actual answer?

hope it turns out good ronang :)

(although, as an aside, if one is an online record store why the flip would one want a store in soho??? one could be based anywhere/nowhere)

i also would like to apply for a better more interesting job...

Really hoping hoping for this job, will find out sometime next week apparently.

There are rock-solid demographic reasons why you'd want a store on one particular street in Soho. Probably facing one manky fruit and veg stall and underneath at least one manky brothel.

possibly but it's got to be better than my current one.

I told Stew this story in the pub last night, but I'll share it here too. Last week I got a similar letter from a large organisation to whom I had recently applied, thanking me for my time in attending the interview, I had done well but not well enough etc, and suggesting I could call them for feedback on the interview if I so required. So far so good, yes? One small problem. I didn't even ATTEND an interview with them. I cancelled the morning of the interview as I was offered another, better-paid, job. Anyone at all think the post had been filled already and the rejection letters were ready to go before the interviews had even been conducted?

I'm tempted to call them for feedback, for teh rofflez. Except that I may have dealings with them in my new job, and I don't want to upset them.

I spend my life rejecting people who apply for better more interesting jobs in the media, and although it reads like a platitude quite often it's true. The problem a lot of the time isn't the level of competition but the fact that the employer has a very specific idea of the sort of person they're looking for before they even advertise.

And in the rest of the world too. Less sexy when it's in training or the civil service or whatever, but yeah.

People should be more specific about the ads they run, in that case. I've just left a job and seen it advertised. The skills they ask for in the job ad bear little to no relation to the skills that are actually required to do the job well. Mind you, at least in that organisation, the hiring process was genuinely fair and transparent. You had to fill in an application form, no CVs allowed, and you weren't even supposed to put your full name on the form, just first initial, so the hiring panel wouldn't even know what gender you were until the interview stage.

I'm not too disappointed really, I really wanted it but I thought I'd be more down about not getting it. Maybe a day's work will sort that out!

Give work hell. They don't need to know why, just do...

ha, that's NOTHING ;) at my current place of work they used to remove just the name/gender/date of birth bit, THEN they thought, "well if you can see someone's qualifications then you'll likely be able to work out how old they are" so for short-listing all you get is the candidate's statement of how they meet the selection criteria (ha, although when i moved jobs i did start my statement with "as student database administrator for the last three years" so it was pretty apparent it was ME)

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