Title says it all: how soon after joining a new company is too soon to take a holiday?
I'd assume there's at least a 3mos no-fly period, but after that is it fair game? Looking to see what the consensus is...
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I think it really depends. Once you reach a certain age / level of experience, you start to plan holidays more in advance and I think it's absolutely fine to take a holiday shortly after starting as long as you raised it up during the process. Especially if you start in the late spring / summer, it's expected that you'll be taking some holidays.
For more junior roles, I think it really depends on the firm. We usually try to have our incoming associates have at least a couple of weeks off before starting so they don't usually take holidays in their first few months, but then I don't think that taking a week off would be such a big deal. But when I started in banking, the norm was to wait a full year before taking some time off.
If you join in September, Christmas should be the first main holiday. I think it's OK to take 1 day off for a long weekend 2-3 months into the new job if it's a special occasion like a best friend/sibling wedding. If you join in Jan I would hold off until Easter to take a big holiday off. This depends on the vibe of your firm though; ours is pretty chilled and some semi-senior new hires took a week off 1 month in a no one cared
Fair enough - am starting first week of Sept and hope to go skiing first week of Jan!
Plenty of time in that case, enjoy the trip! Make sure you let colleagues know around October/November if you think your deal/project will drag on until then
Thank you! Work in trading, so any won't be any projects per se, just de-risking and making the other traders aware of what's on my book
The Oct/Nov deadline is good colour as well
Internship: I'd personally say not to take any, perhaps a long week-end. When I see some take a week or two off I'm shocked, you only have 10 or so weeks to impress and you go away for 10-20% of it.
Graduate role / Analyst: Generally start in August/September so I'd say wait until Christmas, although a long week-end is fine.
After that, it depends, if you're changing job/company and you have holidays already planned before interviewing, mention it towards the end of the process. If you don't have anything booked, I'd wait a couple of month after starting. . All of this depends on teams and companies, but I'd generally say wait at the very least 2 months before asking for time off (first role out of university, besides 2 days off at Christmas, I waited 8 months before taking a full week off).
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