To take my 1YO and 5YO to a job interview?

[jewishmum]

DH will be at work, and it's an interview for a weekend cleaning job where my DH will be able to mind the children. But the interview is in the school holidays (tomorrow).

Would be more impressed with them if anything. And I also realise that they wouldn't take thier children every day to work - especially the 5 year old because it's half term today, and isn't usually, is it??

How would you realise they wouldn’t take their children every day to work? She was planning on taking a baby in a pram and had ‘forgotten’ it was the school holidays. How would you then know confidently that the baby won’t be there regularly, and that she won’t also forget the frequent (feels constant) school holidays primary school children have? Six weeks or longer in the summer, half terms, Christmas etc. She can’t make provisions for an hour one day so it wouldn’t fill you with confidence that they would suddenly be sorted for every other working opportunity. And from my view it would make me not trust that person to be in the house. If they think it’s acceptable professional conduct to bring a baby to a job interview how do I know if they realise it’s inappropriate to bring babies and children into other people’s homes that your being paid to clean?

It's a public amusement..place fyi. So I couldn't possibly take a child with me to work.

Thanks for answers, DH is taking the kids tomorrow now. Comments have made me think of becoming more attentive to my calendar and diary, thank you. :)

You need to get childcare.

Ah, a public place, then yeah, can't take the children, as the OP has correctly identified.

@CanStopWillStop on the contrary I tend to think the opposite, that people who do cleaning are without exception bright and quick off the mark and smart. Lots of us have done cleaning, right?! But it's bad to stereotype either good or bad, and im sorry as I can see it gave an offensive impression.

The range of things you get asked in a practical job interview are usually more concrete, about experience and behaviours and can potentially be answered while doing something else. It's not an abstract discussion or someone trying to catch you out on what you know or how you frame an argument, that's all I meant.

Ask to make it a Zoom, can keep the kids occupied off screen for 20 mins.

Don’t take them and TBH I can’t believe you’re considering it. It gives the wrong impression and implies unreliability

Bet if a man turned up at an interview with a baby on his hip because he couldn't get childcare he'd get nothing but sympathy and offers to hold the baby.

Yes, take them! Let us know if you get the job!

Or…. if you give the impression you have no common sense, don’t make appropriate decisions, and will be a nightmare for your employers because you don’t think ahead and plan childcare…

Could go either way 🙄

Hopefully it went well and you were offered the job💐

Fine if you don’t care if you get the job or not!

Ah,the warmth of a thread will keep us warm all winter. Did a handover yesterday with the person I was covering maternity for with her 1 year old there. Was fine. Explain to your potential employer see what they say. Will tell you a lot about the company

Pointless post 🙄

Not if you want the job lol

Absolute no no.....sorry OP

If you turned up with the kids i would not employ you as i would be wondering what you would so with them in all the other holidays or on days when their father was unavailable. If you have no support to even cover an interview I would expect you to be a flakey and unreliable employee.

Speak for yourself. It might impress you but I'd send him right back home.

@ArmWrestlingWithChasNDave I wasn't speaking for myself, only pointing out that I'm pretty sure men would be treated more sympathetically in that situation. It makes me sad that so many posters would assume a woman's an unreliable employee if she hasn't arranged childcare for an interview for a cleaning post. Paid childcare costs a lot of money.

I’ve never known any man, or woman, shown up to an interview with their children. In every job I’ve had it would be considered inappropriate and very unprofessional whether you have a penis or not.

I went to an interview with a baby and got the job. I’d told the panel in advance. The only difficulty was getting the buggy up the stairs (ages ago and old building without a lift).

Absolutely not you can't do that.

OP has said her husband will be looking after the kids.

Good luck OP. I hope you get it.

have you been required to attend the interview, from jobcentre, but don't actually want the job.
sounds like you are trying to ensure you don't get the job.
if you did get it, where would you leave the children while you worked.

Do not take the children. It's unprofessional.

I'm pretty sure men would be treated more sympathetically in that situation

Based on what?