The Treasury Recruitment Company

I keep seeing recruiters announcing on LinkedIn that they’ve been “retained” to recruit another senior treasury role.

Sometimes they even add that it’s confidential.

But I always find myself thinking…

Are you really retained, or are you just pretending?

Not because retained recruitment isn’t a real thing. Of course...

I saw someone experience one of my own personal nightmares the other day.

Their event had completely flopped.

Lots of people had booked…

And no one showed up.

They’d posted about it on LinkedIn, but what struck me was that their frustration was aimed at the people who hadn’t come.

And I have to admit, I looked at it very differently…...

Every week, I receive emails that all sound something like this:

“Mike, could I borrow 15 or 20 minutes of your time?”

Sometimes it’s someone wanting career advice.

Sometimes it’s someone trying to move from banking into corporate treasury.

Sometimes they’re hoping I’ve got a job for them.

And almost every email finishes w...

Every week, I sit down to write this newsletter with one question in mind:

What’s the conversation treasury professionals need to be having right now?

It could be about careers. Sometimes it’s about hiring. Or usually it’s something from a conversation I’ve had with a candidate, a treasurer, or a hiring manager that I think deserves a wider audience.

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Whenever I look back at the careers of the most successful treasury professionals I’ve spoken to, there’s usually one thing they have in common…

Things rarely went smoothly.

At some point in everyone’s career, something sprang out at them and changed things in a way they never expected.

It might be an acquisition, a restructure, a...