<p>I graduated with a finance degree last spring. I received a job offer from an insurance company for a decent starting salary. The work didnt sound knock-your-socks-off interesting, but the work conditions seemed decent. The BLS website had some pros and cons for this field and said there was high turnover. This company wanted an answer QUICK, and I said yes because it was the only thing on the table and I needed to get my own health insurance asap. </p>
<p>Then literally the day after I accepted this offer, a bank I had applied to contacted me back and asked me to interview for a finance rotation program I had heard good things about. I responded to the email requesting I interview later that week pretty quickly after it was sent, hoping I could do the interview soon and have them accept or reject me right away so I could decide what to do. But then they emailed me back and said they had filled that first interview spot and they couldn't interview me until near the end of the month. Training for the other job starts before that though, and I'm being asked to sign a promissory note saying I owe them for training expenses if I leave the company before a year's time. </p>
<p>So I guess there's really nothing left to do now but try and not sulk over a missed opportunity. I think the bank's program would have been really good, but I ultimately decided I couldnt risk being rejected there and being left with nothing. I guess I just need to tell the recruiter what happened and try to convey that I sincerely regret it and that I may want to be in touch in the future if they're still interested.</p>
<p>These things happen all the time. It isn’t guaranteed that you will get the rotational program position. It was only round 1.</p>
<p>Your chance will come again. It will be easier the second time around after you gain some experience. Just keep in touch with the bank recruiter.</p>
<p>But its the rotation program is marketed by them as “campus recruiting”, so im worried that once too much time after graduation passes, they wont be interested anymore.</p>
<p>That’s probably what Im going to end up trying to do. </p>
<p>They said this interview would be a “final round” interview and after I initially explained to the recruiter that I needed to interview quickly they said if I could interview next week they’d let me know either way by the end of the day. I wish I could go on on this interview, but it’d mean skipping the training for the job I took, which would be too risky. But this bank job starts its own training for the new class in about a month’s time and I not sure how many times a year they start new trainees.</p>
<p>Just say there is an extremely urgent matter you must attend to and you will make up training on the weekend or ask someone in your team to explain to you the details of the training you missed.</p>
<p>Its gonna be complicated, because this will actually be the first day of training in a new location. Its actually pretty close to the state Id be interviewing in, I could just rent a car and drive over, but Im afraid Id have to have a really good, convincing excuse to miss the very first day of training in a brand new location with a new set of instructors.</p>
<p>Well, I’ve been in the same situation. Although I have very little job experience, this has happened to me before and it’s nerve wrecking because you always want the best you can get and stuff. But you know what, the insurance company is good -maybe a little boring-, but you’ll get three really important things for you (blahhh for everyone): money, health insurance and work experience. And the latter makes you more competitive for better job offerings later on (sometime even the pay does, because on your next job you can argue you received better pay and ask for more).</p>
<p>Don’t let something safe go for something you don’t know if you’ll get. But I do agree that you should go to the interview, and if it turns out good (more $, funner, better learning opportunities) then go for it. You can later on find a way to pay the insurance company for the training expenses.</p>