Why You Should Never Cancel Interviews After Accepting Another Offer

And I understand the rationale.

On the surface, it FEELS respectful.

“Why waste their time if I already know I’m not taking the role?”

But that's faulty thinking.

Canceling interviews has near-ZERO upside.

For reps: it puts a splotch on your reputation and kills opportunities you may need to revisit later.

For companies: you lose visibility on good candidates who could have been a fit down the road but never finish the process.

And switching offers is already when most reps lose the most money.

That transition is usually where average monthly income takes the biggest hit.

Reps need to be selling as much as possible and also at the same time avoid any downtime as much as possible.

Ask yourself this:

What’s MORE likely?

That a company re-hires you later after you canceled an interview once you got another offer…

OR

that they re-hire you later after you finished their interview process, they gave you an official offer and THEN took ano