Did I Ruin My Chance to Get My Dream Job?

Source: CBS News

Have you been eyeing a dream position in another department only to learn later that the boss was considering you for another one? Worse still, you even talked to your boss about the position in the other department. What would you do?

An employee is going through the same thing and he feels he sabotaged his dream job opportunity.

There has recently been a posting for a position in my company that I am thinking about applying for. I sat down with the hiring manager (informally) in order to discuss not only the position, but also the department and how she views the company as a whole.

I told her that I had some concerns about the position being too much of a side step for me, even though I am very interested in learning new things and thought that the direction the department was going was very interesting to me.

I also asked her about other departments within the company and when she mentioned knowing someone involved in the decision making process for another posting I was interested in. I asked her if she would be willing to let her know I was interested in speaking to her about it.

I felt like the conversation went well, and she gave me a contact of another person in her department to talk to in order to help me make my decision on whether I wanted to move to that department.

All this happened before I found out that I am actually being considered for an assistant supervisory position in that department which I would ABSOLUTELY be interested in. I feel like had I known that that position even existed (it hasn’t been posted yet) let alone that I was being considered for it, I would have framed that conversation completely different. I certainly wouldn’t have asked her about the other position in a different department!

What should I do!? Did I completely blow it?

What advice would you give him?

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