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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This doesn’t seem hard.  Just say — thank you for your interest.  This seems like the perfect fit for me except it’s in Kansas City.  I’m really not able to relocate.  If you’re interested in exploring something where I could remain in DC and be at HQ two days a month, let me know.

My office had never done this but just recently started doing it for someone in a hard to fill role — due to our industry it actually is a significant legal/admin burden to have someone in a different state, but we’re doing I anyway.  I will say this person is really working hard at integrating themselves into the company — volunteers for stuff like committee, schedules his days in office when he is most likely to see people, etc. I do think it takes a little effort so they don’t feel like they’ve made a mistake — you want to make sure you’re a known entity to people other than the one person you report to.[/quote]

Listen to this advice, OP. The only thing I’d add is if it’s truly a job you want, don’t commit to relocating before you have an offer in hand but say ‘I’d have to give that a strong consideration should this be the right fit for both of us’

That way, when an offer does come and they say it has to go to X city you take the ‘I need a week to talk this over with my family, I haven’t given it serious consideration until the offer made it a possibility’

Going back and saying no after a few days is a lot of leverage. Express excitement but focus on it ‘not being the right time to relocate’ and then say nothing. Either they’ll reply you with the ‘we understand, thank you for tour time’ or the ‘well what if we let you stay there and you came here 2 days every other week as needed’. Get it in writing. 
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