eJobs: 4 in 10 employees invent excuses to leave the office for a job interview

Georgiana Bendre 21/11/2017 | 14:04

A survey from November of eJobs, the online recruitment platform, reveals that 74 percent of the respondents went at least to an interview in the last year and 33 percent admitted that had even three or more interviews in this period and 4 in 10 employees invent excuses to leave the office for a job interview.

7 in 10 Romanians say they schedule the job interviews during the work schedule when there is no other solution, while 10 percent say all the interviews from the last 12 months were programmed during the work time at the current office. To prepare for going to the interview, 63 percent of the employees use to get a day off, but 4 in 10 invent excuses to leave the office.

The main excuses to leave the office are the doctor appointment (46 percent), the bureaucratic formalities (41 percent) or family emergencies (32 percent). At the same time, 12 percent of the employees say they go to lunch when they have an interview, 10 percent say they have an appointment at auto service and 8 percent have a work meeting off the office. Other excuses mentioned were the personal issues, without exact details, or the need to go to certain courses or exams.

More than a third of the respondents (37 percent) say they don’t have usually difficulties to find excuses for a job interview, but 29 percent admit they fear to be refused by the direct superior. Only 23 percent say it’s hard to find a reasonable excuse to leave the office.

6 in 10 employees are convinced their superior consider the excuses to be real. Only 10 percent fear the boss might  find which is the real reason of leaving the office. This is why over 60 percent prefer not to discuss with anyone from the office about the real reason of leaving and from those who discuss, 56 percent choose to tell a colleague from the same department and 40 percent to a colleague from another department that are close.

Almost a half of the respondents (47 percent) say their boss never found out about their attendance to a job interview, while in 18 percent of the cases the superiors found out the real reasons of leaving.

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