Role play here with me for a minute. Let’s pretend that I’m your doctor. You called me and said you have a sore throat and a fever. Naturally, I schedule you to come in at my first possible opening – lets pretend it’s sometime on Friday. Well, I would imagine you’d be surprised if I called you on Friday, two hours before your aforementioned appointment and said I had to reschedule because I have a more important appointment. But, you think, ok fine. You reschedule for my next open appointment on Monday. So on Monday you’re practically bleeding from the throat and unable to breathe when you get a voicemail from me telling you that we’ll have to reschedule again. Then by the time you FINALLY get into my office on Tuesday you’re having hallucinations, sweating like a pig and muttering under your breath like some crazy, homeless person.

Would probably be a little annoying, right?

We’ll that’s how employers feel when you reschedule your interview a hundred times to fit it in between meetings so you can run down to the lobby to whisper during your phone interview and hide in the bushes from coworkers walking by. At the point of your first interview, the agency is probably juggling several other candidates who AREN’T making them reschedule, and by the time you get around to making some time in your busy day to interview with the agency you TOLD me you were REALLY, REALLY interested in, suddenly they don’t feel the love anymore. They’ll cut you loose and go chat it up with another candidate that makes them feel like the big-time, badass agency that they are.

Bottom line, if you really want a new job and I present a great opportunity, make yourself available on THEIR schedule.

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