Ban on entry! ‘The fear of spies’ risks creating more problems than it solves’. Joakim Lindqvist, General Counsel at ST (the largest trade union in the public sector in Sweden) made a statement in DN (large Swedish newspaper) yesterday (3 June) regarding the gross risk generalisation that tends to exist in recruitment. Today there are good reasons to be cautious and ask more questions than before. We have hopefully moved somewhat from the almost total naivety that once existed to a somewhat more conscious approach to risk management in recruitment. We are probably all aware that the world has become much more global. Many companies today are directly or indirectly international, and young people see more of the world as a potential workplace than just their home country. Experience of working abroad, whether it is in the defence or business sector, has been weighted heavily in a CV as it clearly develops the individual and their ability to contribute to the business. At the same time, a suspicion of experience in certain environments is developing and, as described in the article, ‘it is like poisoning the whole body of society with chemotherapy when a scalpel is needed’. For me, having developed and managed a risk and security consultancy in China for 18 years, I have seen first-hand how this has developed. I have experienced how individuals with 4-5 years of China experience working in areas such as compliance, finance and technology development have found it difficult to get employment when they return to Sweden. Not because they are less qualified but because they have an employment background in China. On one occasion, a security manager in a medium-sized company stated that ‘it is currently difficult to assess resources who have recently worked in China’. This was a final candidate in a recruitment process for a non-classified position. The security manager in question was unable to present anything that constituted a reasonable argument at all, it was all emotionally based. The person in question did not get the job. In another case, also a non-classified position, the employer chose to screen the person anyway, which I support. If you are unsure, it is better to go one step further. The person in question got the job. We tend to lose important skills if we do not clearly analyse the opportunities and risks. If we allow unqualified judgement to guide recruitment and development, we damage the business. We also tend to get experts and analysts in certain areas who are desk jockeys without having had their feet in the relevant environment for several years. The question here should be what is most dangerous in the long run. #riskmanagement #recruitment
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