I/v on Fri, when should I mention I want jobshare?

[milki]

I have just got an interview for a job that was advertised as open to jobshare applicants, could someone please tell me the best time for me to mention that I would like to do this?

There was no space on the application to indicate I would like to take this option, and I didn't mention it in my personal statement or in covering letter. Should I bring it up at interview?

My instinct is that I should, but if anyone has any better suggestions as to when (and how) to bring it up I would be grateful.

TIA.

If/when they offer you the job. If they have said that it is open to jobshare applicants then the onus is on them to find you a jobsharer I should think? Otherwise they would be discriminating if they chose full timers overy job sharers.

Is this a government/counil post?

I would wait.

If they ask if you have any questions at the end you could ask then, but personally I would wait until they offered me the job - as this is the time IMO to discuss T&C

I have been interviewed for 3 f/t posts when requesting p/t or job share. I have always brought this up in the Q&A session after the interview. By this point you've already impressed them, but you are allowing them to factor this in to the decision making process, which I think is only fair.

On each occasion I was offered the job, BTW. Good luck.

I disagree with some people who've said not to mention it.

If it has said it is open to jobsharers then they obviously have a positive attitude, but they are only ever going to recruit a job sharer if they can fill the other half. Therefore I would mention it early so that they can bear it in mind when interviewing other people.

What Ribena said. Definitely don't wait until they've offered you the job. You could do that if you wanted to negotiate compressed hours, say, or slightly reduced hours, or a day at home, or something. But if you want a job share that's significantly less than full time, and you need them to find a whole other person to work with you, so they need to know that earlier than offer stage. If you announce once they've offered you the job on a full time basis that you actually want to do a job share they may well have disregarded other job share candidates anyway.

Listen to Flowery. She knows everything her stuff

Thank you for advice.

I will bring it up in the interview, feel most comfortable with that anyway for reasons Ribena said.

Is it enough to mention that I want jobshare when they ask if I have any questions? Or should I let them know prior to interview?

No that sounds fine. Because they are open to job share there's no need to mention it before interview, but at the end of the interview might be a good idea, once you've 'wowed' them.

That way once they've seen the candidates, they will know which are f/t and which want job share so can proceed on that basis.