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Should I go on an interview if I don't want the job?

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I applied to a bunch of different positions at two different hospitals a few weeks ago, because I was looking for a PRN job after being a stay home mom for 2 years.

Hospital A called me right away and I went in to interview for an L&D nights PRN job and I got the job! Yay! I'll start in a few weeks. L&D was my previous speciality and it seems like a great unit.

Hospital B just updated the status on one my applications that I'm being considered for an interview. It's Neuro med/surg. Honestly I don't have much interest in that area - I just applied because I was applying for anything that said PRN to get my foot in the door.
I'm interested in this hospital because they have a great children's hospital and I may want to switch specialities to Peds down the road and it looks they mostly hire internally for Peds.
But I don't know if that's a good enough reason to take a job I don't think I want.
I don't even know what I'd say in the interview if they ask me why I'm interested in that floor!

Honestly I doubt they'd hire me PRN for that floor when my only experience is L&D.
But I don't want to **** off HR since I may be interested in applying for a Peds position there at some point.
And I have an active application there for PRN NICU, which I doubt I'll be called for, but if I did, I WOULD like to interview for that one.

If they do call me, should I say I just accepted a PRN L&D position at another hospital and need to decline the interview? Maybe express interest in the NICU job while I have her on the phone?
Or just go on the interview and see what happens?
I would thank them for their time, explain you just accepted a position elsewhere.Normally I would say that going on the interview, even when you're ambivalent, is good experience. But if you just accepted a different job somewhere else and there's no chance you would take it, then you'd be wasting their time.

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Quote from kloneI would thank them for their time, explain you just accepted a position elsewhere.Normally I would say that going on the interview, even when you're ambivalent, is good experience. But if you just accepted a different job somewhere else and there's no chance you would take it, then you'd be wasting their time.

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The weeding out of applicants is usually such a long process that I think most HR departments are used to hearing that while they were screening, you got another job.
Author: alice  3-06-2015, 18:49   Views: 193   
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