Hi there everyone,
I am a graduate who applied for a million and one jobs. Since the graduate jobs seemed so competitive, I decided to apply for recruitment consultant jobs because they seemed to be advertised a fair amount. I was thrilled to be offered a 3 month trial contract at a place about 20 miles away (not ideal but at least it would pay the bills!!) I am supposed to start tomorrow. (Also, they said they have had loads of people start and **** it so I had to convince them I only wanted to do recruitment and that I had only applied for recruitment jobs oooops white lie!)
On Friday I got the shock of my life to find out I have been offered a job that thousands of people went for!! It’s a graduate merchandising job with a HUGE company. They need to check my references but they have offered me the job and they said the start date is mid to end november.
So now I am in a predicament. My mum is saying it’s dog eat dog and to start the recruitment training tomorrow…and basicaly lie to them. But I would find it hard to throw myself into something (going round to meet the clients, having a big welcome from the lovely staff there, learning a new industry) when I am probably going to be leaving in like…3/4 weeks. I don’t wanna tell them the exact truth (that I have found a better job, not in recruitment) because… my references might not be amazing and it might fall through or somthing, or I might **** merchandising and I want to keep the recruitment people sweet. So my options are…
1)Start the job and quit mid to end november. I don’t wanna do this really.
2)Tell them I failed a couple of my exams and that I can’t start till end of november as I have to resit? (maybe they might agree to that??). At least by then I will definately know if I like the merchandising job.
3) Tell them I DO have a graduate internship…but maybe say it is a management one that is only a few weeks? Basically put it off long enough to know if I am definately into this merchandising job?
I could find some temp work in the meantime to keep myself going (and that’s weekly pay which is better as I don’t have a penny!!)
Help!
