Posting on behalf of my wife:
She got a verbal job offer from the VA for a pharmacist position. This has been a long process (5.5 months so far) consisting of an interview, lengthy application, a cursory background check, a physical, and the step she is currently on is a more comprehensive background check. In the form it states that they will contact her current employer regardless of what her preference was on the original application. She currently does not have an offer letter or start date, just a verbal offer from HR.
So far, she has not told her current employer that she is leaving and was not planning to do so until she had a concrete start date. Our question for anyone who might have experience with the VA or knowledge about this situation: Is there a way around contacting her current employer until such time she has a solid start-date or at least an offer letter in writing? If not, what is the best practice for someone in this situation. Should she give her current supervisor a heads up? He is not going to be happy when he gets the news so she wanted to delay it as long as possible until she is certain that this offer will come to fruition in the near future.
Any advice is appreciated, thank you.
Submitted August 31, 2019 at 09:02PM by dneal12 https://ift.tt/2ZMdsi9
