How my father’s aversion to risk helped me succeed as a recruiter

My father, who died in 2015, was a cautious and conservative man (although not politically).

For 36 years, he was a tax auditor with the Australian Tax Office in Hobart (photo above, 1990), investigating companies to assess their compliance with tax law.

It wasn’t a glamorous job, and my father didn’t seem to enjoy it much, but in Hobart during the 1970s …