Approaching new employer for pt hours when recruiting for ft position

[Septbaby]

Just wondered if anyone has experiences of applying for FT jobs and discussing opportunity for or hours....

Background, I'm due back to work from ML in June, unfortunately this coincides with our office relocating to the nearest big city from a small town, which increases my 30 min each way commute to 70/80 mins each way, this is just not something I am happy to do; therefore with sadness I'm going to have to look for work closer to home. PT roles in my sector seem to be like gold dust, but I just can't return to my current role for longer than absolutely essential, and I wouldn't be able to apply for flex working for 26 weeks in a new role, sooo... Long story short how would I even go about bringing up the prospect of PT working for a FT role? TIA :)

[WipsGlitter]

Get the job then negotiate!

[OllyBJolly]

Agree with Wips - get the job then negotiate. Once you have that written offer, you are in the strongest negotiating position. Once a company has decided on a candidate, the other candidates fade out, and become second best which no one would be happy with. They particularly don't want to go through the process again!

Convince them you are right for the job, and then construct a strong case as to how you could meet all the tasks and objectives with reduced hours (and if they're at all savvy they'll realise that PT workers are often much better value than FT).

Best of luck x

[GlowWine]

I did, and it worked. After all you have nothing to lose? Apply away!
In my case i applied knowing i could not go f/t, but said nothing. When they offered me the job I explained I could not get the full-time childcare. So they agreed to less days, with the understanding that I'd go full time as soon as it could be arranged - that was anticipated to be 8 months in the future. In the interim other things intervened and I happily carried on p/t...

[Mixtape]

I have negotiated part time in my last two jobs but both times I made the approach before applying. I didn't want to pursue an opportunity if it wasn't going to be an option, or to have to make a difficult decision if I couldn't negotiate what I needed. I do have a lot of experience in the sector I work in, and there are not huge numbers of people at my level locally (in London I am ten a penny )

[Sleepyheads123]

I am wishing I had tried this when I negotiated the role I started a couple of months ago. Any tips on requesting it at this stage?

[Queazy]

I applied, citing that I would like to work 4 days a week. I made this clear to any recruitment agencies too. I wouldn't go through an interview process with them thinking I'd be open to full time - did that last year and went through 3 stage process of to not get job of dreams because they actually weren't as open to part time as I'd hoped (I mentioned it after 1st stage and directly to recruiting manager). Given 4 days is basically FT with voluntary work in the evenings in most jobs it still irritates me, but I clearly wasn't the right candidate anyway. Not that I'm bitter, ha ha Just go in honest, and if they like you and think you've got the right skills, I think they'll negotiate.

[GoogleyEyes]

I was got an interview for a job advertised as f-t, and my out of office message gave away the fact I was part-time now. I went along prepped with lines on how I would love to do the job and how it would work brilliantly as a job-share - I offered to recruit my own job-share partner, 'sold' job-sharing to them as a concept (they'd never come across it before) and generally put a positive spin on it.