Start job hunting now or after planned summer vacation?

[Anonymous]

I have a 3 week vacation planned in summer. My current job situation is spiraling downward fast and I am extremely unhappy and bitter.

I have updated my resume and am ready to approach several competitors. I really want to start the job search now instead of after my vacation.

Should I wait after mid August or start now? Is it a big no no to start a new job with planned vacation? If I do get an offer, I will definitely inform my future boss before I start.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Before. Companies will work around planned vacations.

[Anonymous]

Start now. You don't know how long it will take to find a new job, interview, get the offer, give notice, and start working there. If you don't start until mid-August, think how much longer you'll have to stay at this job where you're unhappy. You don't want to be in a situation where you are so desperate to leave that you take a new job that's not the best fit.

[Anonymous]

I am in HR. As long as you do not have an AOL email address, we will allow new employees to take a previously scheduled vacation unpaid.

[Anonymous]

Now!

Too much about the AOL email!

Funnily, I got a job offer via my AOL email addy yesterday!

[Anonymous]

Yesterday.

It has taken DH and some of our friends unlucky enough to be out of a job MUCH longer than they estimated to find a job. As in, months. In one case, more than a year.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

+1 for now