I had two interviews for my current job: one right before I left for 2 months in Asia, and then another via Skype while I was in Mumbai. They ate that shit it up, over half of both my interviews were talking about my trip, and I'm certain it played a large role in me being hired. There's not really a stigma with taking a few months off to press "re-set." Of course, it's kind of a one-time deal.
And would you really want to work for a douche bag that would hold you going on vacation against you?
Also, how does one go about getting a job in a different state? My role isn't specialized or in high demand, so I don't think a company in a bigger, popular city would reach across time zones for a senior analyst. My thought was to use friends' addresses on my resume who live in Austin/San Diego/Nashville/SF and act like I'm living or moving there very soon. I also looked at changing career paths entirely, but it seemed I would have to start lower on the pay scale if I wanted to do that.
I got a PO Box in the city I wanted to move to include on my resume. Cheap and easy. Also, and this is not necessarily cheap and easy, but my :two cents: from being in your exact situation -- if you're moving to a new city, I think it looks much better if you actually go to that city to interview. Of course, this isn't always possible, especially if you're looking at multiple places. I just think shotgun-blasting your resume all over the country isn't going to get you very far. Sure, you'll have some anecdotal stories of friends getting jobs that way, but I think they're the exception rather than the norm. I think those days are over--think how many resumes/applications big companies in the cities you mention receive per week. I think my situation was different than yours in that I knew where I wanted to go, so I could focus there. I got my job solely by being in the city and interviewing; I would not have gotten it if I was still out-of-state. I'd maybe do some research and focus on 1-2 cities you'd really want to move to and go from there.
Good news is that I can fly for really cheap at a moment's notice because my sister is a flight attendant.
Keep us posted.. I’m looking to do the same next summer. Already got the scoop Bamanug on his experience, interested in hearing how the job search goes for you after having a gap on your resume.
I hate dealing with job search stuff and get unnecessarily stressed waiting for replies/news. For example, receive email last Friday telling me they want to interview me and asking about my availability. I reply with my options and receive a reply on Monday saying they'll get back to me this week. Haven't heard anything as of yet so now I'm stressing about when the right time to follow up is, as I don't want to follow-up too early or too late.
Hi (Name), I had a note to follow up on this today. Your message on Monday suggested that I would be hearing from you this week, but as of Friday afternoon, I have not seen anything come over. I'm just making sure I didn't miss anything Please advise on how you'd like to move forward. Thanks, Cotton
I'm not job searching until like May of next year but it pains me to see shit I would really like to go after now pop up
Going to start job searching after our baby is born so we can be closer to home. I've taken a few phone interviews to knock the rust off but I'm really not looking forward to all the BS and hoops I'm going to have to go through. Quality of life is the biggest driving factor of this change, I like my job and my industry, but the 24-7 operating environment isn't working for my personal life anymore.
Anyone else's work run PTO/vacation on the fiscal year and not calendar year? i.e. our fiscal year is July to June. I've been at my new job for about 8 months (came from calendar year PTO), was easy to forget late last year that I still needed to save days for the next 6 months of 2018. Just wondering how common this is too...
The one thing that is nice how our PTO days work is that I can burn one in January and not really feel bad about it since I only have 6 more months of my balance.
New job starting in a month. Good: 20% raise, 88% shorter commute, and I'll save around $200/month in gas/tolls too Bad: going from a 'use it don't abuse it' 21 day pto policy to a 10 day pto policy that may be strict. Money talks
That’s 15 days of leave (vacation and sick banked together). That does not include holidays. At 5 years of service, that 120 becomes 160 hours (three weeks to four).
I guess I don't feel as bad about how many PTO hours I get at my (newish) job anymore. I still get triggered though that holidays count towards my PTO days.
My wife works for the state. When we had our second child, she took 6 months of paid time off using just PTO. And still didn’t burn through it all.
I work fucked up amount of hours right now. They give us that much PTO because people tend to burn out. I know I do.
We are “unlimited” now. I plan on using at least 3 weeks Used 3 last year including a 2 week trip in December
I never give credence to the unlimited hours unless I'm a partner and am not responsible for doing the day to day work.
Yeah I got a vacation snaked in June so that’s why I didn’t give a shit about taking 2 weeks in December. Got promoted so it made my new boss get pissed at my old one. He knew it wasn’t my fault Wasn’t traveling or anything in June was just planning on chilling and playing some golf so I guess it worked out Edit: snaked is probably the wrong term. I was asked if I could delay and I agreed to it
My FIL is an HR exec and mentioned to me over the holidays that the trend now is for places to move to "unlimited" PTO at least for senior management. The thought is due to remote connectivity and smart phones people are spending more and more personal time working so it evens out. It's not official at my company but while I technically have 5 weeks vacation and am maxed out at 800 hours sick time I haven't reported an absence to payroll in a couple of years now. My boss's philosophy (and mine for my direct reports and their teams) is that we get our jobs done so why would we want to micromanage shit like attendance.
My company switched to an unlimited PTO policy when I worked in management consulting. They went from 30 days to unlimited, people went from an average of 25 days taken to under 20. Generally unlimited policies do not benefit the entry to middle management employees.
I hate the term unlimited because there's obviously a limit since you can't take a stupid number of paid days off. If the actual limit isn't obvious you're left trying to mirror what others are taking or YOLOing and potentially facing consequences for taking more days off than everyone else.
Still working in management consulting? Work for a private healthcare firm in management right now in Atlanta and might be looking to move into something like that.
For me, the unlimited thing works out as I’m a project manager in industrial construction. Like a lot of other jobs I have certain periods of time where I’m way too slammed to take vacation so I have to wait until my project is over or im at a certain milestone in the project. It’s nice to be able to take 2 full weeks off and still be able to take random days off around holidays for extended weekends and what not Get my job done the right way and nobody gives a shit which is it how it should be. Doesn’t work for every industry, though.