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Most "good" prospective employeers will be willing to flex a bit to accomadate your schedule needs.

If posible, schedule the interview on what should be a "light" day, or a day you might "normally" take as a personal or vacation day, and put in for the day off as soon as you have the interview scheduled.

Use caution when replying to blind want adds.
Many companies use these to see if their employees are looking.

Chas

TheChas,

Thanks for the answer.

Just a few more details, I work in the field, this means 90% or more travel a week. Also, I just got married and took a short (4 day) honeymoon and don't want to seem like every other week I am taking a vacation. You have any other ideas? I find most perspective employers do not want to do a phone interview first, although i find them invaluable to determine if the job they offered is what I want.

I'll accept your answer, I just want to leave the question open in hopes someone else has a good idea too!

I've been in your position. A couple of times. You are lucky that you travel a lot. It means that you can justify time out of the office.
I try to schedule job interviews as late in the day as possible. Several job interviews have taken place at 5:00 or later. A good employer understands that you at at your job all day. The other thing this helps with, you get to see what your commute home would be like at rush hour. I left an interview a 5:30 and got stuck in a terrible traffic mess. They offered the next day but I turned it down, based partly on the ride home. I didn't want to go through that every day.

The same can be said about interviews first thing in the morning. FInd out what the drive is like.
Being newly married can b to your benifit. If you need to take off in the morning or afternoon, you can use some newlywed excuse, like my wife and I have to...sign papers, go to a bank, whatever. Saying that, I'm not sure your boss can quiz you on what you are doing. You might justsay, I have to take care of some personnel business and leave it at that. Several years back, when the economy was great, I job hopped like everyone else. I took off at 2:00 every afternoon for a week. The boss came to me on Friday and asked if everything was ok, and I just said I was taking care of some personnel business.

Being on the road is great. If you can schedule an interview near wear you are going to be, try to do it areound lunch. If anyone asks where you were, just say lunch. I've done that too. (Changing into interview clothes in the back of a truck wasn't much fun).

If you don't have a cell phone, you may want to get one, maybe short term, so you can get calls away from the office.
Good Luck.

I've gone through similar things, and I've always held that I don't look for a job on the job and I usually don't take off to find work.

so, do your resume mailouts from home - and utilize online job search engines from home. Put your home email and home phone number on the resume.

My wife who was at home, screened every call - and basically the deal is that they had to go through her to get to me - if she was ok with the employer, then she would give me the information, and I would call them back on a lunch break or after work. As far as interviews go, we would set up phone interviews first. As far as live interviews - I required them to meet my time schedule. Most people are agreeable to that.

You can always use a vacation day and not tell anyone where you are going. Go fishing for an hour for fish, and then go fishing for a job - if you tell them you went fishing then you didn't lie - right? come back and fish some more if you didn't catch any fish the first time..

:)