Employment/Clerkship situation
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 2:46 pm
I posted this in the clerkship forum but I'll also post here since this forum gets more traffic.
I'd like all your input on what you'd do in this situation. I accepted a state level clerkship in the Spring to begin in a few weeks. Prior to accepting a clerkship, I was told by my dream job (gov't job-won't get more specific than that) that there were no openings in the near future and he'ed recommend I take the clerkship and that I should stay in contact during my clerkship. Well today I get an email saying the gov't job would like to schedule a second round interview. So I reached out to a contact at the gov't position and was told that they had a few immediate openings as well as projected openings in the future. Here is my question to all of you: would you still go to the interview? If I were to get offered and told that I'd need to start immediately or risk losing the position what would you do, keeping in mind that the position would be my dream job (and by dream job I don't just mean field, I mean location, office, etc.)
I'd like all your input on what you'd do in this situation. I accepted a state level clerkship in the Spring to begin in a few weeks. Prior to accepting a clerkship, I was told by my dream job (gov't job-won't get more specific than that) that there were no openings in the near future and he'ed recommend I take the clerkship and that I should stay in contact during my clerkship. Well today I get an email saying the gov't job would like to schedule a second round interview. So I reached out to a contact at the gov't position and was told that they had a few immediate openings as well as projected openings in the future. Here is my question to all of you: would you still go to the interview? If I were to get offered and told that I'd need to start immediately or risk losing the position what would you do, keeping in mind that the position would be my dream job (and by dream job I don't just mean field, I mean location, office, etc.)