What's the thing about waiting for an offer letter

[sawyerthedestroyer]

Before letting the hiring manager know about planned time off?

I was interviewed for a job, but my family has committed to a week out of state in August (wedding, visiting parents, two birds, one stone, blah blah blah). Isn't there some thing about not mentioning the time off needed until after an offer is made?

I honestly forgot to mention it in the interviews and now they've offered me the job.

If you waited until you had an offer, how did you word it? Am I going to start off on the wrong foot?

I know August is a long time off. I'm just good at borrowing trouble.

[lacey]

What is it exactly that you want?

Will you have the vacation time to take and you just want to notify them? Do you not have the days off and you want them with pay? Advanced permission for unpaid days off?

Thank you for your offer. I love your company and think this would be a great fit for both of us. Because of my kickass skills in x,y,z would you be able to consider an offer of (10% above the offer). I also have a week of vacation planned for August x-y. I know I'll have the vacation days to use for it, but wanted to let you know that it is important for me to be able to take that week./ I realize I will not have the PTO acrued by that time. Would you consider a one time allotment of 40 hours for that week to be paid leave?/ I realize I will not have the PTO for that week but can I have advanced permission to take unpaid time off for that weekm

[isabel]

Negotiate if you want. When you're ready to accept, you say, "To make you aware, I have a family vacation planned for August x-x and will need to be able to take PTO/unpaid time off for that event."

I've had to do this a couple of times and never has an employer balked. It's really not that big of a deal.

[livinitup]

I don't mind if someone accepts a job with vacation plans within 6 months, especially a wedding. It happens. Just tell HR. Accept the job, when you are talking about a start date just say you also wanted to talk about dates you need time off (paid or unpaid) for a wedding.

[chchchia]

To me after you have the firm offer/acceptance but before you start, do an oh btw.
I work for the govt so I know nothing of private industry, so I prob don't know what I'm talking about, but that's what I did.

[LanaLang]

I've hired a handful of people in the past couple of months and all of them have plans already, including a wedding and honeymoon. I just tell them to put it on the calendar. No biggie. One did concern me a little, but that's only because it coincides with the wedding and two others traveling internationally at the same time. Not her fault. I told the recruiter to let her know it was no big deal.

I've also had an interview where I told the manager that just fyi, if you do hire me, my grandma is dying and I'll need time off. Although we worked a few hours from each other, she just happened to be in the office when I got the call, and I had the time I needed, no questions asked.