turning down a job interview

milly4ever

i feel terrible about doing this- after looking at the particulars again i realised i would be wasting everyone's time by going for it.
has anyone else done this?

ari101

Haven't done it myself but had friends do it for the same reasons - one went with the honest approach... "unfortunately on second consideration *** means it would not be possible for me to accept a position and as such I wont attend for interview", the other told them she had been offered something else in the mean time.

Depends on what you're comfortable with doing and whether it was through a recruitment agency. If it's an agency balancing it can be hard; you may have to go through them again in the future so don't want to make them doubt your committment when applying by backing out honestly, or if you lie and want to apply for another job advertised through them in the near future you may tie yourself in knots or miss out on an opportunity because you don't want a lie found out.

Best of luck getting out of it.

Ari

tenchi-fan

milly4ever wrote: »

i feel terrible about doing this- after looking at the particulars again i realised i would be wasting everyone's time by going for it.
has anyone else done this?

Why do you think you would be wasting people's time?
Do you feel you are underqualified? In which case - time to upskill yourself and go to the interview. Why else would they have called you..

Do you think you are Overqualified? In which case.. do you not need the money?
Or just that the job won't suit you.. once again, is money not an object?

Regardless, I think you should go anyway. If nothing else it is good interview experience.

Also, in the future you might apply for a job with the same company again and it would be nice to be able to say you interviewed with them, even if you didn't get the job or you got offered it but turned it down.

milly4ever

ari101 wrote: »

Depends on what you're comfortable with doing and whether it was through a recruitment agency. If it's an agency balancing it can be hard; you may have to go through them again in the future so don't want to make them doubt your committment when applying by backing out honestly, or if you lie and want to apply for another job advertised through them in the near future you may tie yourself in knots or miss out on an opportunity because you don't want a lie found out.

Best of luck getting out of it.

Ari

thanks for your reply, it wasn't through an agency so at least i don't have that extra pressure.

milly4ever

tenchi-fan wrote: »

Why do you think you would be wasting people's time?
Do you feel you are underqualified? In which case - time to upskill yourself and go to the interview. Why else would they have called you..

Do you think you are Overqualified? In which case.. do you not need the money?
Or just that the job won't suit you.. once again, is money not an object?

Regardless, I think you should go anyway. If nothing else it is good interview experience.

Also, in the future you might apply for a job with the same company again and it would be nice to be able to say you interviewed with them, even if you didn't get the job or you got offered it but turned it down.

thanks for your reply

i applied for many jobs- i saw this one and thought i would apply as it sounded interesting. it wasn't until they called me asking me to come to an interview in 2 days time that i had to make a decision fast. deep down i knew that i would not take the job. it's in england, very inaccessible, know no-one anywhere near and the pay was so low that i would have barely been able to survive.
i felt even worse because i asked them about travel expenses and they said they would pay 3/4 of it.

i just have no experience of this, and am trying to make myself feel better by finding out if this is something that other people do, or did i act really badly in this situation?

InReality

its fine !
sounds like you have a very sensitive moral compass !

like you said would have been a waste of everyones time

milly4ever

InReality wrote: »

its fine !
sounds like you have a very sensitive moral compass !

like you said would have been a waste of everyones time

i do, i'm a terrible worrier!

thanks for the reassurance

off.the.walls

just do what i did tell them ya gotta a better job offer.