Just spoke to a recruiter who approached me on LinkedIn about a sales role. I receive many inMails about potential opportunities and let me say this, the message was refreshing. Straight to the point, intriguing and relevant. Discussion was engaging, transparent and informative. Unfortunately we both agreed the role isn’t for me but I’ve been left impressed. You have a very charismatic and competent Recruiter.

I run training courses on how to leave a positive impression on a candidate. I always open by asking people to tell me about their worst experience in an interview. Then I share mine, and it was with the then CEO of PageUp in Singapore in about 2015. It was basically a psychometric test that went on for 3 hrs. I came during my lunch break. I was not told it would take so long. A robot could have done a better job as an interviewer. I left the interview knowing that I would not get the job but also that there's no way I'd work for this person. I always finish my story about the consequences of leaving a bad impression. In my current position, PageUp approached me to sell their service to me. My first instinct was to invite them over to my office and hold them for 3 hours before declining, but I'm nicer than that. I simply said no thank you while in my head I thought, never in a million years.