By the time of appearing at onsite interview, I knew that was expecting. Did not expect to crack it, albiet got an offer. Did not inform recruitement about this yet. Due early next year, by the time i officially join the team, i am looking at only 2-3 months of work time before taking time off. Can offer start dates be extended 8-9 months out? Has anyone been in a similar situation? Thoughts on how to proceed?
Congrats on the offer and on the baby. I’ve seen a lot of guys do it. No reason to postpone, unless their maternity leave policy is worse than that of your current employer though.
Current employer’s policy is better than next one. The new one grants partial leaves until 1 year is complete at work.
Guys get maternity leave too? 😮
Do not extend the start date. Start work usually, and take maternity leave. This will entitle you to federal protections and benefits. It's illegal for employers to discriminate for maternity leave.
Do not tell hiring manager until after you start. My sister did the same. She interviewed when she was 5 months pregnant
Did the new company knew about pregnancy when she appeared for the interview?
No she did not look pregnant and she did not say anything.
Which Company? Some companies have generous maternity benefits and good insurance. Accenture has good maternity leave policy and I got good paid time off.
Nothing wrong with paid leave
Hiring managers, Recruitment, HR background community members - please chime in. I am considering informing recruiter on acceptance to have transparency. Please share experience and knowledge... stressed about this. New comps are better, current company’s benefits are better.
Accept the offer, when discussing your joining date tell them that you have this coming up. You can either join now and take the time off or join after. Have the discussion after accepting the offer though, if you actually want the job. I’ve seen people join jobs and leave for parental leave within a month, you are not the first one. Don’t stress over it for no reason.
Please do not feel pressured, legally companies cannot discriminate for being pregnant. So ideally no bad blood if you do not disclose. But TBH this totally depends on the individual manager. At my previous employment, two months after an internal transfer when I mentioned this to my manager he was surprised and exclaimed "Why did you not tell me earlier?". It had an indirect hint of me not getting that project if I had disclosed. I smiled and confidently said, how does this matter? As far as I understand, I was supposed to pass an interview to get into this project. The job description never said that soon to be mommies please do not apply. He got the hint that his remarks were discriminating
Btw, I still had almost 5 months to go on the maternity leave. None the less, he wasn't super nice to me after that. But he couldn't do anything either
Anyhow I ended up changing my jobs after maternity for entirely different reasons
You being afraid of taking the offer is already a sign that there is a big problem in our society. So yeah, go for it, maternity is a part of life.
Definitely accept the job. Way too big of a risk to ask them to wait and you are putting them above you right of the bat.
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Take the job and get the paid Mat leave. That's the perk you deserve.
Yeah there is nothing wrong with that
I would also talk to the hiring manager now and let them know in advance