Taking Time Off for an Interview

By Alison Doyle

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy

 

What's the best way to take time off from work for a job interview? I always suggest that job seekers try to schedule interviews early or late in the day, or at lunch time. Another alternative, if you can schedule a couple of interviews on one day, is taking a vacation day.
Site visitors (share your excuse) have shared lots of other excuses for not going to work.
Excuses for Taking Time Off to Interview

• Take a vacation day.
• Use a sick day.
• Take a couple of hours of personal time.
• Volunteer for an extra task, meeting, event, conference of some kind that involves time outside of normal work hours, then take the extra hours worked as comp time.
• Picking a friend up from the airport.
• House was burglarized.
• Plumbing problem.
• Sick child.
• Sick parent.
• Doctor's appointment for yourself or a family member.
• Medical testing.
• You have a migraine and need to go home.
• You have a business meeting.
• Personal business.
• Appointment with an attorney to get wills.
• Financial planning appointment.

In addition to good excuses you can use for not going to work, take a look (and add the worst excuses you've heard) at the bad excuses you've heard for missing work.