I have a friend who is a nurse with a good job, but is wanting to see what else is out there. She put out a few feelers, and got a few call-backs for job interviews. She normally doesn't take time off and travel much, but by a fluke of scheduling she has three different things going on this summer: a 3-day professional conference in a different state one month, a 3-day vacation planned with her family the following month, and a 5-day required trip to graduate school for conferences and inservices the month after that (so we're talking about needing 2 days off in late June, 3 days off in late July, and 5 days off in late August). None of the dates for any of the events are flexible.
The positions she's interviewing for are administrative/managerial, not floor nurse. The jobs would require she be in the office M-F 8-5, so it's not like a floor nurse situation where she would work three 12s and the time off could be scheduled around.
With that background, what would be the best time to bring this up to the potential employers? During the interview? My gut says it should be brought up during the interview as kind of a "I know this is inconvenient and I don't normally require a lot of time off, but these things were already scheduled months ago and cannot be changed. If this is not something that you could work around or accommodate, I totally understand that you would need to go with a different candidate."
