I have an InterviewI have a dilemma and an interview, actually. You may remember (or not) that I recently was offered and accepted a very lucrative job. Better than I really expected and after meeting on Friday with my supervisor and one of the biggie doo-dahs from the Corporate office in California, I now know that the decision is the right one for me. The job is going to offer more responsibility than I have officially had in previous positions. (By officially, I mean that I was not responsible for some of the tasks I accomplished but did them anyway or else they never would have been done). My dilemma is that I made a decision to accept interviews from employers I had sent my resume to prior to being offered this job. If for no other reason than to not make enemys out of potential opposite counsel. I also had it in my mind that, since I have two full weeks before I start and I have nothing to do until then, I would go to the interviews and see if there would be a better opportunity in the batch. (I highly doubt it, but still, you never know, right?) I am now reconsidering because now I am thinking that for every interview I go on that is one less person out there who had applied to the company and will not be able to be interviewed because I am. One such interview that I have is tomorrow at a firm that shares floor space with another firm that I did interview with and who never responded to any of my emails or voice mail messages regarding the position at that company. So, any 2 cents that anyone wants to give me about this? You know you want the job you said yes to. You know that you' ve made a commitment to them. You are only wasting the time of the interviewers and yourself by continuing to interview. If by some miracle something "better" does come up, you' re then going to screw your brand new employer. So, in a nutshell, call these others up on Monday, tell them you' ve accepted another position, thank them for their time and stop fooling around. After you' ve been in your current job a year, you can go looking for greener pastures elsewhere if you want. Don' t blow a good thing with silly stuff. I would notify them that you have decided to accept another position. Thank them for the opportunity. Not go. I'll "third" those opinions. If the job that you accepted was not "the right" job for you, you should consider going on the interview. But you seem to indicate that this is a good opportunity for you so I think you should close your job search and bow out of the upcoming interview. | |
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