I am watching my daughter go through this. She is frustrated. She has a job. She wants to work somewhere else.
She is interviewing and has multiple interviews lined up.
She has spent a ton of hours interviewing already. She has made up reasons why she has to leave during the middle of the working day for 2 to 4 hours.
How does she take time off from work when the interviews take up so much time? What kind of excuses can you give your present employer?
Strategies?
If it were me, I would just say I had doctor’s appointments (providing I had enough leave time to take off). I am assuming that is what she is already doing?
Yes…she has done that. How many doctor appointments are 4 hours? 
I asked my interview folks for appointments at the end of the work day. I explained that ethically, I didn’t want to stiff my current employer even though I was seeking other opportunities. All obliged.
With travel time, and waiting, many are 4 hrs. I would just take off the afternoon.
Maybe she can ask if they would be willing to skype with her after hours.
Having been there in the past, it is tough and coworkers/bosses can get suspicious. Once you have children, they can always be used as an excuse. I worked in a male dominated environment. I’ve found in such an environment that if the impression is given that the medical issue is ‘female issues’, the guys definitely refrain from comments. 
If possible, it does help to schedule interviews either early in the morning or late in the afternoon to minimize time out of the office. For appointments requiring more than a few hours out of the office, I usually would take a personal or vacation day.
I would do what Thumper does - ask for an appointment after her regular working hours. If not, I would take a personal or vacation day.
Dentist appointments are always good excuse. Root canal or replacing a crown are acceptable time sucks and lots of dentists only work 10-4.
Does she have enough vacation time to just take a day?
^^ I was thinking along the same lines as eireann. Lots of people at work take vacation time off to do things involving their kids, their houses, events involving organizations they’re involved in, etc. I took an afternoon off to see our lawyer for estate planning and didn’t feel the need to explain what I was doing.
Really tough to do. No one wants to be a fibber but in situations like this, honestly, is there any other choice? You can get fired from one job if you are caught interviewing but you can’t get the other job without interviewing. It is definitely a catch-22. I don’t have any advice not already given but I really like the idea of trying to be ethical and asking the potential new employer to interview you at the end of the day. That is as close as you can get to be ethical there but you got to do what you got to do. Good luck!
She could tell them she has appointments with a dentist who requires his/her patients to wear black or navy skirt suits, hose, and heels.
Honestly, employers tend to figure this out pretty quickly (unfortunately).
My son is having an issue with this also. How does one work full time, prep, and complete interviews? Especially when they are on the other side of the country. He is flying on a Sunday, interviewing on a Monday, flying all night Monday and going to work on Tuesday, to only miss one day of work. Exhausting! He has actually mentioned quitting, as he says he could get an interview every day, then negotiate offers, However, how can I recommend quitting a good job, for hope of a better one?
S was applying for a job that had multiple testing/interviews, 7 steps or so, spread out over 9 months. He did quit his then current job, as it required extensive travel. I wasn’t happy at the time, although it did work out. He couldn’t have done that if he wasn’t a fairly recent college grad living at home.
@styrstress, what about the thought that it is easier to get a job when you are employed? Did you feel it was tougher since he wasn’t working? I’m just afrald of that possibility.
My son has done this too.
My D is interviewing for another job and she took a sick day as it was an all day interview. She will take another sick day for the next round.
I would never encourage them to quit a job as it is much easier to land a job while you are working, and then there’s the health insurance coverage issue.
My daughter has had interviews at 4 different companies and she still has a shot at all of them. The companies are all so slow and time consuming and they don’t all have their acts together.
She was supposed to hear a final answer from one yesterday or today. She would take the job from that one. She didn’t hear so she called today. Nothing bad but they got busy.
She was hoping to cancel the interviews she has on Monday at other companies. My daughter is the world’s worst liar.
I guess the worst thing that happens is she gets fired.
These companies where she is interviewing know she has a job. Yet these companies don’t seem to care that my daughter is missing work. I doubt these companies would appreciate it if their employees were missing work to find another job.
Today…she didn’t give an excuse. She just asked to leave early. So she didn’t lie.
Looking at the positive, maybe she will have multiple offers.
I certainly didn’t encourage the quitting of the former job–I was very much against it. It was a manual labor job, not career type, but still…it was still in the recent economic train wreck and his application cycle there were initially 5,000 requests for applications and eventually 85 job offers…ug, I feel sickly writing that, what was he thinking?
What excuses did she give for the 4 interviews earlier?
Everyone has to do something in order to look for another job. During the initial phone interviews, my D had to go outside the office building for privacy.
It’s never easy.
Good luck to your D !