Do I apply for this job?

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I have found a job I would love and be perfect for. It's basically my dream job, I can meet every point on the job description, it's with an organisation that is a leader in the field...It's perfect.

But:

I'm 26 weeks pregnant, the closing date is next week so realistically I'm not going to start before I'd want to take mat leave and so I wouldn't be starting for a year.

Plus we currently live 300miles away and DH has a job here. Potential job is in London, which is where we want to move to, and DH has been applying for jobs there but he doesn't have anything lined up and there are no guarantees he would have something in a year's time.

I'm scared not so much that I wouldn't get it (I could deal with that and it would be good experience), but that I would be offered it and then either have to turn it down or really struggle to make it work. If I turned it down it would probably damage my chances of ever working for that organisation, and it's a small industry so word might get out.

Is my best bet applying and hoping that I wow them and they then decide they don't want me because of my pregnancy? I know it's discrimination but I don't want to not apply :(

WWYD?

Apply and worry about the rest later.

Apply and worry about the rest later.

Remember if your current company are offering you more than SMP and you started at this new job you wouldn't be eligible for the new companies benefits as it falls out of the time frame so you may end up losing out.

Other than that not really sure what to suggest for the best, it's difficult when you don't already live somewhere because you don't know the childcare times which may affect the hours you are able to work to go and collect / drop them off - unless someone else can do that for you.

Does it say they need someone for an immediate start or looking to start in the next 3 months or something? If there is no allocation of time then they may very well be willing to wait for you. If they need someone right away then you wouldn't meet the specification...

Sorry not exactly helpful!!

Have I missed something - are you saying you wouldn't start for a year? Without knowing your sector and the job, in most cases this isn't going to work surely. Why or how would they hold a job open for a year? If that's not an issue then go for it as you have a year to sort out the rest.

samnella closing date for applications is this coming week, depending on their turnaround it will probably be a minimum of 2 weeks before anyone is offered the job, more like a month so that's the end of October. I then would have to work notice in my current job and baby is due December so the start date would coincide with when I start ML. So realistically I wouldn't be starting until after ML.

It would be possible to get someone to do the job as a mat leave contract. I'd presumably be replacing someone leaving anyway (as it's unlikely this is a newly created post) so given that they're interviewing anyway if they decided to appoint me perm it's feasible to offer one of the other candidates a year fixed term.

Mat pay isn't a consideration as I only get statutory....

They're going to be able to work this out when I show up for interview anyway.... At most I'd be working there for 2 weeks, and maternity leave entitling applies regardless if length of employment AFAIK.

But presumably they want someone to start now not in a years time so I can't see how that would work. They'd end up recruiting twice, to start in a years time and to temporarily cover until you start. I can't see how that would benefit the company at all. And then of course you might not want to go back to work so they might end up having to recruit a third time.