Should I confess a prearranged holiday?

It makes sense that a company will accommodate your holiday when it has already put you through the tests and interviews and selected you above all other candidates. In fact, it is fairly commonplace that a successful candidate has a holiday booked at the time of being offered a job. Most employers require certain notice in granting vacation time while for many candidates booking a getaway around school holidays is their usual practice.

For those going overseas, the season is a factor or budgeting. All in all, there are many reasons why a candidate would have a holiday booked and paid for well in advance. A problem could arise if the holiday coincided with a pressing project or some other time-critical issue.

When an employer agrees to let a new recruit go ahead with their holiday, they just spot the employee the paid holiday time in advance.

For lower-level jobs, the company might be more reluctant to give a new employee paid holiday leave before he or she had earned it. It would depend on how badly they wanted the person for the job. In that case, the employer might agree to unpaid leave instead.