What would you do if you accepted a job but have an opportunity for a better one?

Do the interview, but keep in mind a ‘bird in the hand, is worth two in the bush’. If you’re going to jump ship, now is better than after you’ve started and been trained. Sometimes this happens. In my experience, the university will go to their next preferred person and give them the job if you turn them down now.

If this second job is your dream job, I don’t think you can not try for it. You’ll spend a long time wondering, ‘what if’. So give it a go and see what happens. You might not get the second job! Then again… you might!

You don’t have the job at OSU and might not get it. I don’t see any problem with doing the video interview, but don’t tell your other job that you don’t want it because you might get a better job.

Move forward with whatever you need to do to start the new job you already have received, and do the video interview with OSU. If you get an offer from OSU, make a decision then. Don’t anticipate in advance of what might happen.

I agreed do the interview if you are very interested in the position.

Yep, I agree with everyone else. It’s a good idea to do the other interview if you’re interested. It’s your life and you don’t always get repeated opportunities.

Both universities want the best candidate. You are entitled to want and seek a better job. The trouble is that both you and the school are committed. Consider your position were the first school to inform you after hiring you that a more qualified candidate appeared after you and the job was no longer yours.

Happened to me.

I was newly married and had a job that required me to stay out of town all week returning only on the weekends. On one Monday I did not go but stayed in town and looked for a job that would keep me home.

I went to about a dozen different places trying to find work in my chosen occupation and a couple of others as a last resort when none of them panned out. That evening I got a call from one of the secondary places offering me a job as a draftsman and accepted the position.

The next day one of the other companies called offering me a position as a job superintendent; more money, in my field, I assumed more opportunity for advancement. I turned it down because I had already accepted the other job.

In retrospect, I should have probably accepted it. Not that the first job did not see me through several years with appropriate advancement and pay increases and was a product engineer when I quit but when I finally burned out and decided to move on back to the field I had gone to college for I was starting out all over again against younger applicants who would accept less money and, while I had gained experience in management, I was lacking it in the specific field and had not kept up with the progress in the intervening years.

That’s awesome that OSU wants to interview you! Congrats!

Please take the time to do a bit of research about OSU.
History of this position.
Length of employment averages.
Fluctuations, etc.
Overall outlook, and in this particular area of employment.
Hiring from within.
Recidivism.
It might be stepping-stone position to move on from, once your foot is in the door.

Do your homework on each job before deciding.

Thanks again for the insight everyone. I am sticking with Capital and going in with my full focus on that, I think it won’t be good if I do it with one foot in and one out while still seeking OSU. I jumped to the conclusion that OSU was automatically better because of the name which sounds really good BUT overall my smaller private university is probably the better choice. I get more days off, it’s more overall HR rather than just recruiting which I like so I can expand, I don’t have to pay hundreds of dollars for parking or walk 5 blocks, and I’m not even sure if pay will be much more.

Sounds like you undertook a thorough evaluation process and reached a conclusion that works for you. Glad you’re now feeling more settled about accepting that first job.