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matilda · Guest

What is the procedure to get your travel expenses re paid. I have gone severl interstate interviews and it is draning my finances. How do you ask your interviewer for your travel expenses ?

Should it be declared prior to the travel ?

Patrick · Guest

The hourly employee paying travel expenses law does not count because you are not yet an employee of the company. This is the reply I got when i asked my last job interviewer about travel expense. They had 20 people being interviewed and I think they did not have the financial beef to pay for all of us. He said that if I was recruited they would consider it 'bla bla bla'.

I suggest you do not show your enthusiasm for such things on the meetings with your employer . When they recruit you politely ask about your interview travel expenses, they might read you wrongly if you ask for them before.

Katja144 · Expert Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 176 Career Advice: +2/-0

My guess is that most employers will expect you to bear your own travel expenses unless it's a really swanky job that they really really really want YOU or only a few people for....don't quote me on it as I'm not sure, but I think that's how it's done.

Haven't had any experiences as to whether you can get them to reimburse you once you've been hired, but I'm guessing that if they had any intention to pay your travel expenses, they would offer when the interview is set up.

Cameron · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:22 pm Post subject:

Travel expenses would typically be paid only if (1) the position is fairly high-level or (2) you discuss it in advance.

I would be very hesitant about sending a reimbursement request after the fact if neither of these criteria were fulfilled.

Unless I hadn't gotten the job. Then I'd feel slightly less hesitant . . . Wink

Carole · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't ask for reimbursement even if I got the job - it would seem a bit too cheeky, I think.

If the company has specifically contacted you (head hunted you) and asked you to come in for an interview then I'd expect to have expenses reimbursed but if you contacted them and asked for an interview then it's up to you to finance the travel.

Carole

ResumeCoachDeb · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:01 pm Post subject: Interview Expense Reimbursement

ALWAYS negotiate your travel expenses prior to accepting the interview offer !!

Deb

jeter4982 · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject:

Ya, personally I don't think its a great negotiation skill on your part if you are asking them for a reimbursement of your travel expenses before you even interview with them. Perhaps as the others have said if they recruit you, and offer to pay for them that is one thing, or if you are a specialized worker with only one or two people in competition for the job, but in general if you are equal with someone in an interview, and you are asking for travel expenses to be paid, and they are not, I think in 99% of the cases, you aren't going to get the job...

Tom

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