How do you navigate doing interviews when you’re so busy with meetings, and/or don’t want to look sketch? Or is there no way to hide the situation?

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Doctors appointment or apartment repairs. That’s what everyone does. No internal meeting is more important than your future.

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If you can, maybe take a personal day.

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I have straight up said I was interviewing but they thought I was kidding.

More seriously, I don’t exactly hide the fact that I’m interviewing because the company deserves to know you’re not happy and have the opportunity to fix it.

Then if they don’t they can’t be surprised when you roll out.

But yeah, the 24-hour stomach bug works too. So does emergency dental work.

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CD1 knows what's up.

"sorry I have to go home early, I've got the shits. any questions? didn't think so, bye".

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Take a day off and schedule multiples. Don’t lie. Just take time off.

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I tell the company I can only do before work or after work.

I've turned down interviews and Job opportunities because they were unable to work within those confines. but I've also never been desperate to get out of a current job.

WTH

Calling in sick + doctors' appointments. Or merely the straight truth. Some people appreciate it, especially if you have a relationship with them.

An ongoing issue like internet outage and complain that they need to come to your house multiple times because they can’t figure out what’s wrong with it

Early or late interview. There are countless reasons to come in late or leave early. If the company you are interested in can't do first thing in the morning or last part of the day then they probably don't care if you keep your current job.

Doctor's appointment is a good one because you can leave for a couple of hours, and it's not suspicious if you have another one the next week.

I mean obviously it's suspicious, but you at least you have believable cover. I don't like the early / late thing because who wants to fucking interview some candidate at 8am? I've done it but the candidate is already on the shit list before I've started asking any questions.

Root canals require multiple, lengthy office visits. JS.

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