New job - want holiday beforehand

[garythegreat]

Here’s my situation that im sure a lot of you have been in before.

Basically I got a call today from the public appointments service saying that they will probably be offering me a position in the next couple of weeks.

I have to give a months notice in my current job but don’t want to give my notice until I get a concrete offer from the public appointments service, for obvious reasons.

But I need to take a well deserved break before going from one job to another (my current job is really stressfull and I haven’t had a proper holiday in quite a while), basically I want to go do a bit of traveling for about 3 weeks.

How likely is it that my new employer will approve of giving me 7-8 weeks (incl. notice period) form offer of employment to starting the new job? I really need to take a bit of time off, I’m even thinking of making up a story to ensure I get the time off (ie say I have to finish a contract or say I have to give 2 months notice in my current job or something like that).

Bearing in mind this will be a civil service job at EO level, what do yis reckon??

 

[dereko1969]

Re: New job - want holiday beforehand!!

when the pas call tell them you've holidays booked and won't be able to start until X. I would doubt very much that they'd look for proof and they won't be able to skip past you to the next candidate.

 

[DeeFox]

Re: New job - want holiday beforehand!!

A friend of mine recently got a job (HSE) a few months ago and he told them that he had holidays booked for the first month from when he was supposed to start and they had no problem with it.

 

[bigchicken]

Re: New job - want holiday beforehand!!

I'm sure you'll be fine. lots of people have to give 2 or 3 months notice in work anyway so its not uncommon.

 

[sandrat]

do you have any holidays left in for this year in your current job?

 

[garythegreat]

Yep i have about 8 or 9 days left. Dont think they would be impressed though if i gave my nboitce and said oh by the way im only working 2 and half weeks notice and the rest is my holiday days!

Ok so it should be cool, happy days fingers crossed!

 

[sandrat]

well its that or they have to pay you for them

 

[Lamps]

im in the same situation: Its a civil service EO job and they are being really pushy and want me to start asap, like in a few weeks, they say there really short and need me to go in right away.I want to work my notice and take a weeks holidays but they dont like the sound of that they want me in asap. Dam why cant things just be straight forward, i dont know what to do now!