How do you handle multiple job interviews or offers?

How about when you want one job and are still waiting for the interview but you've already been offered another job? Is there a certain etiquette so you don't seem duplicitous? Do you take the offer with the other job? If you get the job you want, should you quit the other job even if you've only worked there for a few days?

Don't take a job that you really aren't wanting if it isn't your first choice. What you should do is ask for some time while you are waiting for the offer you want.

If you want job A and job B has given you an offer tell job A that you need some time to consider the offer. Give them a deadline (no more than a few days, up to a week) and tell them you will make your decision by then.

Tell job B that you require an answer by a certain time and then wait. You can also let them know that there are other offers on the table but your first choice is them so you are anticipating their offer, should you get one. This is the best etiquette and by far the most professional one.

Most companies know that good prospects will be aggressive in their job search and will be interviewing with multiple companies and may possibly receive various offers. It is okay to let them know the truth.

Definitely don't take a job offer only to quit a few days later. It is bad business practice and you will be burning a bridge that you may need to cross later on. You are also going to be wasting your time as well as those of the company that hired you on. Remember that they hired you in good faith that you actually wanted that job so you are also putting yourself in a position of being dishonest. You don't want to develop a bad reputation in any industry as it could haunt you later on -- plus you don't know who knows who.

OK heres what you do you take the job that you are offered so long as it pays enough to survive. If you get an interview at the other job, take the time off as personal time, tell them you had a personal thing to deal with, apologize, don't go into any details on it. If the job you'd like offers you the job at a salary that is acceptable to you. Then you quit the other job, tell them very politely thank you for the opportunity but you do not feel it is working out. And go to the job you really want. be polite at all times and professional but do what you want to. you can't turn down the job because if you dont get the interview or the job from your dream job then you need to have a back-up job. but if you get your dream job be polite and tell them thanks for the opportunity but no thanks, and then they can move on to someone else to work that job. and you can do what you want.