The entire world of talent is now oriented around risk reduction and compliance and that really has to stop soon before we ruin our future. Ps. No talent department should ever ask me, as someone who is delighted to be a reference, to spend 20 mins of my time filling in forms to explain why the candidate you like is good. That’s your job. Call me up and I’ll wax poetically about their wonder in a 3 minute phone call but I’m not the HR departments administrative assistant. …see more