Offered my dream job yesterday! I accepted then we had a call together. She said not to worry without giving me a chance to explain how much I have planned, she said we can work it out. Still worrying about all this and wanting to be forthcoming, I sent the email last night following your guidance about my pre-scheduled time off but my anxious brain is wanting to call my hiring manager letting her know that I can modify my vacation days/cancel. I have pre-arranged my 2024 travel plans a year ago (20 work days total). Some vacations are fully refundable. I do not want to have the perception that this normal, its anomaly for me to have so much travel in one year. I want to make the best impression. What do I do? Let her respond first?
Thank you did the valuable information. I’ve watched almost all of your videos and taken multiple notes to study. I do have an interview tomorrow and I’m concerned they will ask about any future time off I may have or that their policy of the first 30-90 days I’ll be under probation and will not be allowed time off but will be able to after the probationary period is over. What is the best way to respond without sounding over confident that I have the position?
I'm late to responding to your question! If they are unwilling to work with you to make your previously scheduled time off work, that is a red flag. If they have a policy to not take PTO while in probation, I would ask if there are any ways for you to make up the time and also still take your prescheduled vacation.
Hi there! Firstly, thank you for providing context on this. I just found myself asking this very question, and value your feedback immensely. I already received advise from my work-seasoned family members to respond by email to let them know about prior commitment dates prior to signing the agreement (which I will sign by their due date of tomorrow 4/12). Basically, from crowd-sourced and personal references, I already sent an email that expressed great enthusiasm for the offer and for reviewing it. I also said that I had these pre-planned travel plans, and apologized for any inconvenience and ask how best to proceed/approach these. Is this reasonable? I hoped that trying to be accommodating would take into account your suggested question about time off policies and anything else I might have missed, but of course I do want to make sure I am putting my best foot forward. Thanks!
Thank you! Turns out it worked out well and was approved very quickly. Appreciating your input here so we all can navigate these topics from collective experience!
Wouldn’t it be better to cancel the vacation and not take the risk of having it mess up your new job? I handle the vacation affecting the work and team by just never going on vacation. HR doesn’t like it but they get told by my supervisor to let the issue go.
Not at all. If the organization would rather you cancel your plans that is a major red flag to me. These days, most organizations and supervisors are very understanding of previous plans AND promote taking time off. If you never take time off that is a quick way to burn out.
Do you know if people who work for state quit job and they have still sick days and floating holiday and vacation time ..will it be paid after you quit on your last paycheck? Or sick time will be just gone and never cashed 💸?
GREAT sign things went well during the interview process! You can be honest about when you can start AND be honest about what you already have planned.
Thank you so much. I’ve been stressing about this.
This helped a lot
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Thank you. I need to and visit mother who lives overseas and I am currently interviewing.
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Offered my dream job yesterday! I accepted then we had a call together. She said not to worry without giving me a chance to explain how much I have planned, she said we can work it out. Still worrying about all this and wanting to be forthcoming, I sent the email last night following your guidance about my pre-scheduled time off but my anxious brain is wanting to call my hiring manager letting her know that I can modify my vacation days/cancel. I have pre-arranged my 2024 travel plans a year ago (20 work days total). Some vacations are fully refundable. I do not want to have the perception that this normal, its anomaly for me to have so much travel in one year. I want to make the best impression. What do I do? Let her respond first?
I'm sorry for the delay! I bet you've already worked through this - how did it go?
Thank you did the valuable information. I’ve watched almost all of your videos and taken multiple notes to study. I do have an interview tomorrow and I’m concerned they will ask about any future time off I may have or that their policy of the first 30-90 days I’ll be under probation and will not be allowed time off but will be able to after the probationary period is over. What is the best way to respond without sounding over confident that I have the position?
I'm late to responding to your question! If they are unwilling to work with you to make your previously scheduled time off work, that is a red flag. If they have a policy to not take PTO while in probation, I would ask if there are any ways for you to make up the time and also still take your prescheduled vacation.
Hi there! Firstly, thank you for providing context on this. I just found myself asking this very question, and value your feedback immensely. I already received advise from my work-seasoned family members to respond by email to let them know about prior commitment dates prior to signing the agreement (which I will sign by their due date of tomorrow 4/12). Basically, from crowd-sourced and personal references, I already sent an email that expressed great enthusiasm for the offer and for reviewing it. I also said that I had these pre-planned travel plans, and apologized for any inconvenience and ask how best to proceed/approach these.
Is this reasonable? I hoped that trying to be accommodating would take into account your suggested question about time off policies and anything else I might have missed, but of course I do want to make sure I am putting my best foot forward. Thanks!
I think what you did was very reasonable! Since it has been a few weeks since you posted this comment, any updates on how this went over?
Thank you! Turns out it worked out well and was approved very quickly. Appreciating your input here so we all can navigate these topics from collective experience!
Wouldn’t it be better to cancel the vacation and not take the risk of having it mess up your new job? I handle the vacation affecting the work and team by just never going on vacation. HR doesn’t like it but they get told by my supervisor to let the issue go.
Not at all. If the organization would rather you cancel your plans that is a major red flag to me. These days, most organizations and supervisors are very understanding of previous plans AND promote taking time off. If you never take time off that is a quick way to burn out.
Do you know if people who work for state quit job and they have still sick days and floating holiday and vacation time ..will it be paid after you quit on your last paycheck? Or sick time will be just gone and never cashed 💸?
It depends on the organization and their policies, but most places will only pay out accrued PTO and will NOT pay out holiday or sick time.
What if they ask when you can start working at the interview?
GREAT sign things went well during the interview process! You can be honest about when you can start AND be honest about what you already have planned.
Thank you for the advice. ❤
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