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		<title>Don&#8217;t confuse these two things</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[carly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A client said something to me recently that I hear more often when the job market slows down: “It’s an employer’s market now.” The implication being there are more candidates available, so employers hold all the cards. They can pay less. Take longer. Communicate when it suits them. And candidates will put up with  [...]</p>
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<p>A client said something to me recently that I hear more often when the job market slows down:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>“It’s an employer’s market now.”</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The implication being there are more candidates available, so employers hold all the cards.</p>
<p>They can pay less. Take longer. Communicate when it suits them. And candidates will put up with it because they need a job.</p>
<p><strong>I think that&#8217;s a dangerous way to look at it.</strong></p>
<p>I spoke to a treasury professional recently who gave me a perfect example…</p>
<p>He&#8217;d been through a recruitment process that dragged on for <em>months</em>.</p>
<p>There were interviews, long periods of silence, the process was put on hold, and eventually it looked like the whole thing had disappeared.</p>
<p>Then, months later, the company came back.</p>
<p>They told him he was by far the best candidate and wanted to re-engage.</p>
<p>What would you have said?</p>
<p>Because his answer was… “No thanks!”</p>
<p>And he said something to me that stuck:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>“If this is how they treat me when they’re trying to recruit me, what&#8217;s it going to be like when I work for them?”</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>To contrast that, a bit later on, he went through the recruitment process with another company.</p>
<p>This time, they didn’t offer him the job.</p>
<p>So you might assume he&#8217;d have a negative opinion of them too, but when someone later asked him about the company, he actually recommended it.</p>
<p>Because the key difference was that throughout the process, they communicated with him, gave him proper feedback, kept him informed – basically, they treated him like a person throughout the process.</p>
<p>Think about that.</p>
<p>One company told him he was their best candidate (after dragging their feet for months)&#8230;</p>
<p>And he&#8217;d lost all interest in working for them.</p>
<p><strong>Another company rejected him&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>But he came away telling other people how good they were.</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s candidate experience.</p>
<p>And it matters regardless of whether it&#8217;s an employer&#8217;s market OR a candidate&#8217;s market.</p>
<p>Now, obviously, when there are more people looking for jobs, employers have more choice.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not pretending otherwise.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s something I think employers need to be careful about:</p>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t confuse candidate availability with candidate desperation.</strong></p>
<p>The people you REALLY want are still likely to have options.</p>
<p>You could stick a job advert up on LinkedIn Easy Apply and you’ll probably get hundreds of applications.</p>
<p>But more candidates doesn&#8217;t mean more <em>suitable</em> candidates.</p>
<p>And 300 applications don’t really help if none of them can actually do the job.</p>
<p><strong>Recruitment is still an exchange.</strong></p>
<p>Someone gives you their skills, experience and time.</p>
<p>You give them salary, opportunity, development and hopefully a decent place to work.</p>
<p><strong>A slower market doesn&#8217;t suddenly change that relationship.</strong></p>
<p>So yes, employers might have more choice at the moment.</p>
<p>Use that advantage to find someone brilliant.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t use it as an excuse to treat people poorly, drag processes out indefinitely, or assume good treasury professionals will accept whatever you put in front of them.</p>
<p>Because markets change.</p>
<p>People remember.</p>
<p>And sometimes the candidate you&#8217;re treating as just another CV today is exactly the person you&#8217;ll be trying to persuade to work for you tomorrow.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
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		<title>Would YOU apply for this job?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A client recently asked me to help with a treasury search. Due to internal sensitivities, they asked whether I could start to approach candidates without telling them… the company… the target salary… or where the role was based And they still wanted people to be interested. See the problem? So I turned it around  [...]</p>
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<p>A client recently asked me to help with a treasury search.</p>
<p><strong>Due to internal sensitivities, they asked whether I could start to approach candidates without telling them…</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>the company…</strong></li>
<li><strong>the target salary…</strong></li>
<li><strong>or where the role was based</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>And they still wanted people to be interested.</p>
<p>See the problem?</p>
<p>So I turned it around and asked:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“If a recruiter approached YOU with that little information, would you immediately email your CV to them or would you hang up the phone?”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The answer was obvious.</p>
<p>To their credit, when I put it like that, he immediately understood.</p>
<p>Yes, there were legitimate reasons why they needed to be careful about what information was released, as it was a sensitive situation internally. I get that.</p>
<p>But sometimes clients create recruitment processes that make complete sense from inside the company, without considering what they feel like from the candidate&#8217;s side.</p>
<p>Hiring managers forget that sometimes.</p>
<p>They experience the recruitment process from one side. They know why the role is confidential. They know the salary, the team, the company, and why someone would want the job.</p>
<p><strong>But the candidate knows <u>none</u> of that.</strong></p>
<p>And treasury makes situations like these particularly difficult because it&#8217;s a fairly small world.</p>
<p>People talk. People know who&#8217;s moving. They meet each other at conferences and events.</p>
<p>If I approached an experienced Treasurer and gave away a vague clue about a confidential role, there&#8217;s a reasonable chance they could work out who I&#8217;m talking about anyway.</p>
<p>So there needs to be a balance.</p>
<p>Of course you protect genuinely sensitive information.</p>
<p><strong>But you also need to give someone enough of a reason to actually have the conversation.</strong></p>
<p>And that&#8217;s the bit I sometimes have to push back on.</p>
<p>Confidential doesn&#8217;t have to mean completely mysterious.</p>
<p>If I can&#8217;t tell someone the company name yet, what can I tell them?</p>
<p>Can I explain why the role exists?</p>
<p>The size of the treasury team?</p>
<p>The problems they&#8217;ll be solving?</p>
<p>The broad salary range?</p>
<p><strong>In short,</strong> <strong>I need to be able to explain to them why I think it&#8217;s worth 20 minutes of their time.</strong></p>
<p>Because it’s a lot to ask someone to consider leaving a job they might be perfectly happy in.</p>
<p><em>And if they&#8217;re a good senior treasury professional, they&#8217;re probably not sitting at home desperately waiting for a recruiter to phone them!</em></p>
<p>So before deciding what you&#8217;re unwilling to tell candidates, put yourself on the receiving end of the phone call….</p>
<p>If the proposition wouldn&#8217;t be enough to get you interested, don&#8217;t be surprised when it isn&#8217;t enough for them either.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[carly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A young treasury professional I spoke to recently was worried he was heading that way. He’d spent most of his first year working in cash management and operations, but wanted to get into investments and capital markets. And he was already worried about getting stuck. I pushed back. Before you rush to move away  [...]</p>
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<p>A young treasury professional I spoke to recently was worried he was heading that way.</p>
<p>He’d spent most of his first year working in cash management and operations, but wanted to get into investments and capital markets.</p>
<p>And he was already worried about getting stuck.</p>
<p>I pushed back.</p>
<p><strong>Before you rush to move away from something, have you actually learned everything it can teach you?</strong></p>
<p>Because I think some younger treasury professionals are so focused on where they want to end up that they risk skipping the experience they&#8217;ll need when they get there.</p>
<p>There used to be a rough rule about careers…</p>
<ol>
<li>A year to learn the job.</li>
<li>A year to do the job.</li>
<li>A year to get bored of the job.</li>
</ol>
<p>Obviously, that&#8217;s not a hard-and-fast rule, but there’s something in it.</p>
<p>Each year your experience broadens, things get more streamlined.</p>
<p>What might’ve taken a week in the first year gets done in a day.</p>
<p>But some younger treasury professionals want to skip that bit.</p>
<p>They want strategic projects, capital markets exposure…</p>
<p>They want what they believe is all the sexy stuff with lots of exposure internally and externally…</p>
<p>And I understand why.</p>
<p><strong>There’s nothing wrong with ambition, but some of the supposedly &#8220;boring&#8221; treasury experience is exactly what gives you the foundations to do the interesting stuff later.</strong></p>
<p>I was reminded of something <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelcampbellkc/">Joel Campbell</a> once said when I shared the stage with him at the AFP Conference in San Diego…</p>
<p>Earlier in his career, he complained to his boss about a task he was doing.</p>
<p>It was repetitive, frustrating, boring.</p>
<p>His boss&#8217;s response was:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Welcome to the world of work.&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Not every part of your career is going to be exciting. And not every boring task is beneath you.</strong></p>
<p>You&#8217;ve got to understand the building blocks before you can start rearranging them.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I pushed back on this young candidate.</p>
<p>Rather than spending the next year worrying about escaping cash management, I&#8217;d be asking:</p>
<ul>
<li>What else can I learn here?</li>
<li>What projects can I volunteer for?</li>
<li>Can I get exposure to another part of treasury?</li>
<li>Can I become the person people come to because I understand how things actually work?</li>
</ul>
<p>I even suggested he might become a Senior Treasury Analyst first.</p>
<p>Becoming a really good, broad Senior Treasury Analyst might make it much easier to get the capital markets role he ultimately wants.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with specialising.</p>
<p>Specialists can become incredibly valuable and very well paid.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;ve also seen what happens when people specialise too far, too early…</p>
<p>Someone becomes an exceptional specialist in one area and earns a great wage doing it.</p>
<p>Five years later, they decide they want a broader treasury career.</p>
<p>The problem is, they haven&#8217;t got the broader experience expected at that salary level.</p>
<p>So to make the move, they may have to take a big step backwards.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s when the pigeonhole really does become a problem.</p>
<p><strong>So if you&#8217;re early in your treasury career, don&#8217;t panic because your current role isn&#8217;t exactly where you want to end up.</strong></p>
<p>Get good at something.</p>
<p>Learn the boring bits.</p>
<p>Understand the processes.</p>
<p>Volunteer for things.</p>
<p>Drink more coffee with people around the business.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to get to the destination as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>Become useful first.</p>
<p>Yes, you can think about the next move, but pace yourself!</p>
<p><strong>Sometimes the experience you&#8217;re most desperate to rush past is the experience you&#8217;ll wish you had later.</strong></p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A few years ago, you couldn’t go to a treasury conference without hearing about blockchain. It was going to change everything. There were presentations, webinars, panel discussions and an awful lot of noise. Then... Well, not a lot happened for most treasury teams. Now there’s another term appearing everywhere: Stablecoin. Will they go the  [...]</p>
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<p>A few years ago, you couldn’t go to a treasury conference without hearing about blockchain.</p>
<p>It was going to change everything.</p>
<p>There were presentations, webinars, panel discussions and an awful lot of noise.</p>
<p>Then&#8230;</p>
<p>Well, not a lot happened for most treasury teams.</p>
<p>Now there’s another term appearing everywhere:</p>
<p>Stablecoin.</p>
<p>Will they go the same way? I&#8217;ve no idea.</p>
<p>But I recently spoke to a Treasurer who had exactly the attitude I think you should have towards these things:</p>
<p><strong>Understand it well enough to make your own mind up.</strong></p>
<p>I think that&#8217;s the right approach to ANY new technology.</p>
<p>Because treasury professionals are being bombarded with this stuff at the moment.</p>
<p>And there are two very easy reactions…</p>
<p>You can jump on every new shiny thing and declare it the future.</p>
<p>Or you can roll your eyes and say:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not relevant to us.&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>I don&#8217;t think either is particularly clever.</strong></p>
<p>You need to understand something before you can dismiss it.</p>
<p>Blockchain is the perfect example.</p>
<p>Plenty of treasury professionals took the time to understand it and ultimately concluded:</p>
<p>No. Not for us.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s fine.</p>
<p>There are companies where there may be a use case, but there are plenty where there isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p><strong>Learning about something doesn&#8217;t mean you have to use it.</strong></p>
<p>Sometimes learning about it simply allows you to give a much better &#8220;no&#8221;.</p>
<p>But occasionally, something comes along where the answer is very different…</p>
<p>Look at AI.</p>
<p>Two years ago, if I&#8217;d told you to go and ask ChatGPT, plenty of people would have replied:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>&#8220;Chat what?&#8221;</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Now I use these tools virtually every day.</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve allowed me to do things I&#8217;d previously never have the time for.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s when technology becomes interesting to me – because it actually does something practical and <u>useful</u>.</p>
<p>I think every treasury professional should take the time to study new technology that may help them in the role.</p>
<p><strong>While you don&#8217;t need to become an expert, you need enough curiosity to understand what it might mean for you.</strong></p>
<p>Because at some point your CFO may walk into your office and say:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been reading about stablecoin. Should we be looking at it?&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Or AI.</p>
<p>Or tokenised deposits.</p>
<p>Or whatever comes after those.</p>
<p>They won’t expect a 45-minute technical presentation ready to be presented to the board that day. But a well-prepared Treasurer should be able to have an intelligent conversation.</p>
<ol>
<li>What is it?</li>
<li>What problem could it potentially solve?</li>
<li>What are the risks?</li>
<li>Is there actually a use case for our business?</li>
</ol>
<p>The answer at the end of all that might still be no.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s absolutely fine.</p>
<p>In fact, sometimes that&#8217;s exactly the right answer.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s a big difference between:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&#8220;No, we&#8217;ve looked at it and it doesn&#8217;t solve a problem we have.&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&#8220;No, we don&#8217;t do that sort of thing.&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>One is good judgment. The other could eventually leave you behind.</p>
<p><strong>So the next time everyone starts talking about the latest thing that&#8217;s apparently going to &#8220;transform treasury&#8221;, you don&#8217;t necessarily need to believe the hype…</strong></p>
<p>But don&#8217;t automatically dismiss it either.</p>
<p>Learn enough to make your own mind up.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine you could sit down for half an hour with someone who’s already reached the position in their career that you’d like to reach. Would you jump at the opportunity? Or would you say; “No thanks, your job’s too different from mine”? I recently heard someone say that most treasury professionals do not care  [...]</p>
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<p>Imagine you could sit down for half an hour with someone who’s already reached the position in their career that you’d like to reach.</p>
<p>Would you jump at the opportunity?</p>
<p>Or would you say;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“No thanks, your job’s too different from mine”?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I recently heard someone say that most treasury professionals <strong><u>do not care</u></strong> what Treasurers at Fortune 100 companies are doing.</p>
<p>Instead, they want to hear from people facing exactly the same challenges they are.</p>
<p>I understand that part of the argument…</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a Treasury Analyst working in a relatively small team, hearing someone explain how they manage global treasury operations across 50 countries might not immediately help you when you’re reconciling cash balances at 9am on a Tuesday morning.</p>
<p><strong>But does that mean there&#8217;s nothing you can learn from them?</strong></p>
<p>Absolutely NOT.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re attending a treasury conference, listening to a webinar or coming to one of our events, I assume you&#8217;re probably there for a couple of reasons.</p>
<p>You want to learn.</p>
<p>You want to meet people.</p>
<p>And hopefully, you want to develop your career.</p>
<p>So why would you only want to hear from people doing exactly the same job as you?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve recorded more than 440 episodes of the Treasury Career Corner podcast and spoken to over 500 treasury professionals.</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve all had different careers.</p>
<p>Some started in banking. Some started in accounting. Some fell into corporate treasury almost by accident.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve interviewed people who&#8217;ve worked in businesses drowning in debt and spent their time negotiating with banks.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve spoken to others who&#8217;ve joined incredibly cash-rich businesses and faced a completely different set of problems.</p>
<p><strong>They might all eventually have &#8220;Treasurer&#8221; written on their LinkedIn profile, but their experiences are completely different.</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s what makes hearing from them SO useful.</p>
<p>You listen to someone who&#8217;s further along in their career and can find out how they got there, what they would’ve done differently, and what you could steal from their experience and apply to your own career.</p>
<p>Because interestingly, the stories that get the biggest reaction at our live events aren&#8217;t usually:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s everything I did brilliantly.&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s the missteps. The wrong turns. The job that didn&#8217;t work out or the project that went off course.</p>
<p>And, most importantly, <strong>what they did next</strong>.</p>
<p>Those are the moments when I see people in the audience really lean in.</p>
<p>Now, that doesn&#8217;t mean I think everyone should <em>only </em>listen to Global Treasurers.</p>
<p>Far from it.</p>
<p><strong>Sometimes you need someone who understands exactly where you are today.</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually why we&#8217;ve changed our own events.</p>
<p>We introduced Ask the Treasurer, so Treasury Analysts and Treasury Managers can sit down with experienced Treasury professionals and ask them in small-group situations:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<blockquote>
<p>&#8220;When you were at my level, what did you do?&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<blockquote>
<p>&#8220;What helped you make the next move?&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<blockquote>
<p>&#8220;What would you do differently?&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<p>And our roundtables give senior treasury professionals the chance to sit with peers facing similar challenges.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s value in both.</p>
<p>But I don&#8217;t agree with the idea that because someone works in a Fortune 100, a FTSE 100 company, or another global multinational, their experience becomes irrelevant to someone in a smaller treasury team.</p>
<p><strong>Of course you&#8217;re not going to take Amazon&#8217;s treasury set-up and replicate it at your company on Monday morning…</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s not the point.</p>
<p>But you might hear one thing they&#8217;ve done…</p>
<p>One decision, mistake, or approach to their career that you&#8217;d never considered.</p>
<p>And that one thing might be incredibly useful.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to watch some treasury professionals go from their first major treasury role all the way through to becoming Global Treasurers.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve even placed some of them at several different stages along the way.</p>
<p>And if I were starting my treasury career today, I&#8217;d want to hear from those people.</p>
<p>Because you don&#8217;t always learn the most from the person sitting next to you…</p>
<p><strong>Sometimes it&#8217;s worth listening to the career journey from a treasury professional who&#8217;s already at the destination you would like to go to as well.</strong></p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Earlier this year, I spent weeks travelling between treasury conferences, events and meetings. Texas Liverpool The West Coast London Amsterdam At one point, I got back from the US on a Sunday, drove to Liverpool on the Monday, spoke at the UK Treasurers conference, came home, and then got on another plane to the  [...]</p>
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<p>Earlier this year, I spent weeks travelling between treasury conferences, events and meetings.</p>
<ul>
<li>Texas</li>
<li>Liverpool</li>
<li>The West Coast</li>
<li>London</li>
<li>Amsterdam</li>
</ul>
<p>At one point, I got back from the US on a Sunday, drove to Liverpool on the Monday, spoke at the UK Treasurers conference, came home, and then got on another plane to the Netherlands!</p>
<p>It was <em>brutal</em>.</p>
<p>I remember thinking:</p>
<p><strong>Why am I doing this to myself?</strong></p>
<p>Then I gave myself a fairly simple answer.</p>
<p><strong>Shut up and do your job, Mike.</strong></p>
<p>Because my job is to be wherever treasury professionals are.</p>
<p>Over those 6 weeks, I was in the room with over 3,000 treasury professionals.</p>
<p>I didn’t get to speak to every single one of them. But I had hundreds of real conversations about careers, recruitment, technology, salaries and the challenges treasury teams are facing.</p>
<p><strong>Those conversations don’t happen while I’m sitting behind my desk.</strong></p>
<p>I could have stayed at home. There were certainly moments when I would have preferred to <em>(rather than being stuck in an airport for a four-hour layover).</em></p>
<p>And when I finally had a few weeks without a plane, train, or long drive, someone asked me what I was enjoying most.</p>
<p>My answer was:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“Doing nothing.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I enjoyed being at home, catching up with work, and having a bit of normality again.</p>
<p><strong>Anyone who travels a lot for work will tell you that travelling isn’t glamorous.</strong></p>
<p>It’s work.</p>
<p>I’m not flying to Las Vegas later this year with the thought of extending the trip and spending a week by the pool. I’ll arrive, speak to treasury professionals, do the work, and get back on the plane.</p>
<p>But that investment of time is also why we are now so busy.</p>
<p>We have more roles coming through from the US.</p>
<p>Our events are growing.</p>
<p>I’ve been given opportunities that I could never have imagined a few years ago.</p>
<p><strong>And that all started with putting my hand up and saying yes.</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<p>“Would you like to speak in Chicago?”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Yes.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“Can you come to Liverpool?”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Yes.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“Would you like to run another session in the US?”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>I’ll be honest, I don’t enjoy public speaking.</p>
<p>I never wake up excited about standing on a stage in front of hundreds of people.</p>
<p><strong>But saying yes has taken me outside my comfort zone and opened doors that would never have opened if I’d stayed at home.</strong></p>
<p>More importantly, it has allowed me to make a real difference to people’s careers.</p>
<p>At our recent Treasury Career Corner LIVE event in London, James Kelly asked <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-woodroffe-8899b455/">Louise Woodroffe, Head of Treasury at Hastings Direct:</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>“Louise, who were the people who helped you progress and who helped you believe that you could be more, and what impact did it have on you?”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Her immediate answer was:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“Mike Richards.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I’ve placed Louise previously, but hearing her say that in front of a room full of people genuinely stopped me in my tracks.</p>
<p>And no, I didn’t pay her to say it!</p>
<p>You can watch the moment here:</p>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/wGEbc2Yf1b0?si=uZceUhRE7f0smgA1&amp;t=167">https://youtu.be/wGEbc2Yf1b0?si=uZceUhRE7f0smgA1&amp;t=167</a></p>
<p><strong>That is why I keep travelling.</strong></p>
<p>It isn’t about collecting air miles or posting photographs from different cities.</p>
<p>It’s about being present, meeting people where they are, understanding what they are dealing with, and helping when I can.</p>
<p>You cannot attend one big treasury conference each year and expect to meet the whole profession.</p>
<p>Not everyone goes to the same event. And the US alone is enormous.</p>
<p>That’s why I go to Texas, New York, Chicago and the West Coast.</p>
<p>It’s why I attend events in London, Liverpool, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Luxembourg.</p>
<p><strong>You have to go where the people are.</strong></p>
<p>So I’m finally looking forward to a slightly more balanced travel schedule for the rest of the year.</p>
<p>But I’ll still be getting on the plane.</p>
<p>Because every time I consider staying behind my desk, I remind myself of all the conversations, roles and opportunities that started because I decided to show up.</p>
<p>Sometimes the answer really is that simple:</p>
<p><strong>Shut up and do the job!</strong></p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>P.S. If you see me at an upcoming treasury event, come and say hello. The best conversations don’t always happen on the stage, they happen in the room.</p>
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		<title>Starting Your Treasury Career? Start Here.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Starting Your Treasury Career? Start Here. When you’re early in your treasury career, everything can feel a bit unclear. What should you focus on? What actually matters to hiring managers? And how do you go from “doing the job” to building a proper career? I see this all the time when I speak to  [...]</p>
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<h2><strong>Starting Your Treasury Career? Start Here.</strong></h2>
<p>When you’re early in your treasury career, everything can feel a bit unclear.</p>
<ul>
<li>What should you focus on?</li>
<li>What actually matters to hiring managers?</li>
<li>And how do you go from “doing the job” to building a proper career?</li>
</ul>
<p>I see this all the time when I speak to treasury professionals at the start of their journey.</p>
<p>Some fall into treasury by accident and never quite get a clear roadmap. Others are more intentional but don’t always know where to focus their time or energy.</p>
<p>That’s exactly why I pulled together this listening list.</p>
<p>Over the years, through hundreds of conversations on the <a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcasts/">Treasury Career Corner podcast</a>, there are certain themes that come up again and again:</p>
<ul>
<li>The people who progress fastest take ownership early</li>
<li>They build strong foundations, not just technical skills</li>
<li>They stay curious and keep learning from others</li>
<li>And importantly, they treat treasury as a long-term career, not just a role</li>
</ul>
<p>So rather than leaving you to figure it all out yourself, this is a curated set of episodes to help you shortcut that process.</p>
<p>These are the conversations I’d recommend if you want to understand how treasury careers really develop, what great looks like, and how to position yourself for the next step.</p>
<h2><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f3a7.png" alt="🎧" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> Recommended Listening for Early Stage Treasury Professionals</h2>
<p>Starting Out in Corporate Treasury:</p>
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-221-feature-series-starting-out-in-corporate-treasury-as-a-graduate/">Feature Series: Starting out in Corporate Treasury as a Graduate</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;Feature Series: Starting out in Corporate Treasury as a Graduate&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-221-feature-series-starting-out-in-corporate-treasury-as-a-graduate/embed/#?secret=r72uEeRKpP#?secret=BWJlPzUcTM" data-secret="BWJlPzUcTM" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>What I have seen in Great Treasury Managers:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/feature-series-what-i-have-seen-in-great-treasury-managers/">Feature Series: What I have seen in Great Treasury Managers</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;Feature Series: What I have seen in Great Treasury Managers&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/feature-series-what-i-have-seen-in-great-treasury-managers/embed/#?secret=fVsULLpAl4#?secret=uNU76lUtxQ" data-secret="uNU76lUtxQ" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>What I&#8217;ve Learnt About Group Treasurers from 200+ Episodes:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/feature-series-what-ive-learnt-about-group-treasurers-from-200-episodes/">Feature Series: What I&#8217;ve Learnt About Group Treasurers from 200+ Episodes</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;Feature Series: What I&#8217;ve Learnt About Group Treasurers from 200+ Episodes&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/feature-series-what-ive-learnt-about-group-treasurers-from-200-episodes/embed/#?secret=bo11j15JVM#?secret=TTMBFbxfx5" data-secret="TTMBFbxfx5" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>Our Take on the Corporate Treasury Industry:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/feature-series-our-take-on-the-corporate-treasury-industry/">Feature Series: Our Take on the Corporate Treasury Industry</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;Feature Series: Our Take on the Corporate Treasury Industry&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/feature-series-our-take-on-the-corporate-treasury-industry/embed/#?secret=wDvITHSRFo#?secret=ojkOXMV8us" data-secret="ojkOXMV8us" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>How Taking Calculated Risks and Strategic Moves Created a World-Class Treasury Career:</p>
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-366-how-taking-calculated-risks-and-strategic-moves-created-a-world-class-treasury-career/">How Taking Calculated Risks and Strategic Moves Created a World-Class Treasury Career</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;How Taking Calculated Risks and Strategic Moves Created a World-Class Treasury Career&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-366-how-taking-calculated-risks-and-strategic-moves-created-a-world-class-treasury-career/embed/#?secret=ZTz66K8iWu#?secret=B5zYWWLPio" data-secret="B5zYWWLPio" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>Why Corporate Treasury Needs to Be a Career Choice, Not Just a Happy Accident:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-383-why-corporate-treasury-needs-to-be-a-career-choice-not-just-a-happy-accident/">Why Corporate Treasury Needs to Be a Career Choice, Not Just a Happy Accident</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;Why Corporate Treasury Needs to Be a Career Choice, Not Just a Happy Accident&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-383-why-corporate-treasury-needs-to-be-a-career-choice-not-just-a-happy-accident/embed/#?secret=Y9xQ3BMccB#?secret=wQ5ERtW7sm" data-secret="wQ5ERtW7sm" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>How to Build a Strategic, High-Impact Treasury Team – Lessons in Process, Progress and People:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-396-how-to-build-a-strategic-high-impact-treasury-team-lessons-in-process-progress-and-people/">How to Build a Strategic, High-Impact Treasury Team – Lessons in Process, Progress and People</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;How to Build a Strategic, High-Impact Treasury Team – Lessons in Process, Progress and People&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-396-how-to-build-a-strategic-high-impact-treasury-team-lessons-in-process-progress-and-people/embed/#?secret=juZbWO9JQg#?secret=vV7ctZLvEc" data-secret="vV7ctZLvEc" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>How to Build a Strategic, High-Impact Treasury Team – Lessons in Process, Progress and People:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-396-how-to-build-a-strategic-high-impact-treasury-team-lessons-in-process-progress-and-people/">How to Build a Strategic, High-Impact Treasury Team – Lessons in Process, Progress and People</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;How to Build a Strategic, High-Impact Treasury Team – Lessons in Process, Progress and People&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-396-how-to-build-a-strategic-high-impact-treasury-team-lessons-in-process-progress-and-people/embed/#?secret=juZbWO9JQg#?secret=vV7ctZLvEc" data-secret="vV7ctZLvEc" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>The Treasury Playbook: Centralize Cash, Scale Globally, and Build a Function That Delivers:</p>
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/the-treasury-playbook-centralize-cash-scale-globally-and-build-a-function-that-delivers/">The Treasury Playbook: Centralize Cash, Scale Globally, and Build a Function That Delivers</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;The Treasury Playbook: Centralize Cash, Scale Globally, and Build a Function That Delivers&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/the-treasury-playbook-centralize-cash-scale-globally-and-build-a-function-that-delivers/embed/#?secret=v4glFEQ1fl#?secret=GqNmHnZYrZ" data-secret="GqNmHnZYrZ" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>How Do You Build a Treasury Function from Scratch in a Global Company?:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-394-how-do-you-build-a-treasury-function-from-scratch-in-a-global-company/">How Do You Build a Treasury Function from Scratch in a Global Company?</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;How Do You Build a Treasury Function from Scratch in a Global Company?&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-394-how-do-you-build-a-treasury-function-from-scratch-in-a-global-company/embed/#?secret=tZreVhMmSb#?secret=m8wmI7YHxX" data-secret="m8wmI7YHxX" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>How Tradeweb Enhanced Its Treasury Team with Tech – No Expansion Required:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-386-how-tradeweb-enhanced-its-treasury-team-with-tech-no-expansion-required/">How Tradeweb Enhanced Its Treasury Team with Tech &#8211; No Expansion Required</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;How Tradeweb Enhanced Its Treasury Team with Tech &#8211; No Expansion Required&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-386-how-tradeweb-enhanced-its-treasury-team-with-tech-no-expansion-required/embed/#?secret=JHb07wbHQV#?secret=xQu1nPByDG" data-secret="xQu1nPByDG" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>Write Your Own Career Playbook: Lessons from Amazon Treasurer Tony Masone:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-400-write-your-own-career-playbook-lessons-from-amazon-treasurer-tony-masone/">Write Your Own Career Playbook: Lessons from Amazon Treasurer Tony Masone</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;Write Your Own Career Playbook: Lessons from Amazon Treasurer Tony Masone&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-400-write-your-own-career-playbook-lessons-from-amazon-treasurer-tony-masone/embed/#?secret=C47qYm33eF#?secret=XNeSRqdIvy" data-secret="XNeSRqdIvy" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>From Banking to Treasury: The Career Move That Seemed Like a Step Back But It Wasn’t:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-389-from-banking-to-treasury-the-career-move-that-seemed-like-a-step-back-but-it-wasnt/">From Banking to Treasury: The Career Move That Seemed Like a Step Back But It Wasn’t</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;From Banking to Treasury: The Career Move That Seemed Like a Step Back But It Wasn’t&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-389-from-banking-to-treasury-the-career-move-that-seemed-like-a-step-back-but-it-wasnt/embed/#?secret=zKd4HNjucF#?secret=2U76b1b4E4" data-secret="2U76b1b4E4" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p>How Treasurers Can Avoid Costly Mistakes and Master Risk, Hedging and Liquidity Strategies:</p>
<div class="video-shortcode">
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<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-368-how-treasurers-can-avoid-costly-mistakes-and-master-risk-hedging-and-liquidity-strategies/">How Treasurers Can Avoid Costly Mistakes and Master Risk, Hedging and Liquidity Strategies</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"  title="&#8220;How Treasurers Can Avoid Costly Mistakes and Master Risk, Hedging and Liquidity Strategies&#8221; &#8212; The Treasury Recruitment Company" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep-368-how-treasurers-can-avoid-costly-mistakes-and-master-risk-hedging-and-liquidity-strategies/embed/#?secret=ja9BjLWqry#?secret=vWE2l9bxqF" data-secret="vWE2l9bxqF" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<h2><strong>What You Should Take Away From This</strong></h2>
<p>Don’t try to listen to everything in one go.</p>
<p>Pick one or two episodes, take notes, and actually reflect on what you’re hearing.</p>
<p>Ask yourself:</p>
<ul>
<li>What skills do I need to build next?</li>
<li>Where am I adding value today and where am I not?</li>
<li>Am I being proactive in my career, or just reacting?</li>
</ul>
<p>Because the biggest difference I see between those who progress and those who don’t is simple:</p>
<p>The successful ones take action.</p>
<p>They don’t wait for someone to map it out for them. They learn, they apply, and they keep moving forward.</p>
<p>If you treat these episodes as more than just background listening and actually use them as a guide, you’ll be in a much stronger position than most of your peers.</p>
<p>And if you want a bit of help along the way, whether that’s career advice, market insight, or just a sounding board…</p>
<p>Let’s grab a coffee and chat treasury careers.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Every so often, I hear the same claim… Treasury is too small to produce reliable salary benchmarks. Apparently, there simply isn’t enough data. That simply is NOT true. Having benchmarked treasury salaries for more than 20 years, and with nearly 1,800 treasury professionals now contributing to our Global Treasury Salary Survey, I have to  [...]</p>
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<p>Every so often, I hear the same claim…</p>
<p>Treasury is too small to produce reliable salary benchmarks.</p>
<p>Apparently, there simply isn’t enough data.</p>
<p><strong>That simply is <u>NOT</u> true.</strong></p>
<p>Having benchmarked treasury salaries for more than 20 years, and with nearly 1,800 treasury professionals now contributing to our Global Treasury Salary Survey, I have to disagree.</p>
<p>The problem isn’t that the treasury is too small.</p>
<p>The problem is how the data is being interpreted.</p>
<p>There are many salary surveys out there that are a joke.</p>
<p>They’ll tell you that the expected salary for a treasurer is between £100,000 and £300,000…</p>
<p>Useful, if all you wanted to know was that some Treasurers earn more than others…</p>
<p>Duh!</p>
<p>So, where do these salary surveys go wrong?</p>
<p>Well, the problem isn&#8217;t that treasury is too small. Far from it…</p>
<p><strong>The problem is that people look at job titles instead of the job itself.</strong></p>
<p>For instance, a Treasurer running treasury for a housing association simply can’t be benchmarked against a Global Treasurer responsible for six international treasury centres.</p>
<p>Same title, but one might earn £100,000, the other £250,000+.</p>
<p>They’re completely different jobs. And if you just throw both into the same spreadsheet, your salary data rapidly becomes meaningless.</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s not how we do it.</strong></p>
<p>When someone completes our salary survey, we don&#8217;t just accept whatever title is on their LinkedIn profile. After recruiting treasury professionals for nearly 30 years, it doesn’t take us long to place people in the right bucket.</p>
<p>We ask ourselves:</p>
<ul>
<li>How big is their team?</li>
<li>Who do they report to?</li>
<li>How international is the role?</li>
<li>What&#8217;s the level of responsibility?</li>
</ul>
<p>We can quickly see that someone might call themselves a Treasurer, but in reality they&#8217;re doing what most companies would describe as a Treasury Manager.</p>
<p>Or someone might be Head of Treasury, but the scope of the role is more equivalent to a Global Treasurer.</p>
<p><em>(And that’s not even taking into account all the variables that come with a role in the UK vs the US, for example).</em></p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s why titles on their own don&#8217;t work.</strong></p>
<p>The role does.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s exactly the same when clients ask me to benchmark a salary.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not comparing one job title with another; I compare the <em>actual </em>role.</p>
<p>That’s why I have to disagree with anyone who says that treasury is too small to produce reliable salary benchmarks.</p>
<p>If you think treasury doesn&#8217;t produce neat salary reports because the profession is too niche.</p>
<p>Well&#8230;</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve now had more than 1,800 treasury professionals take part in our Global Treasury Salary Survey.</p>
<p>That gives us a pretty robust dataset.</p>
<p><strong>But the important part is that the numbers only really become useful when someone understands what they&#8217;re looking at.</strong></p>
<p>If you&#8217;re wondering whether you&#8217;re paid fairly, click here to take part in <a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/candidates/resources/salary-survey/">our salary survey</a></p>
<p>If you&#8217;re hiring, building a team, or trying to benchmark a role, that&#8217;s usually when it&#8217;s worth picking up the phone.</p>
<p>You might think the data will tell you the answer, but sometimes you need someone who&#8217;s spent nearly three decades looking at treasury roles to explain what the data is actually saying.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>P.S. The more treasury professionals who participate in our salary survey, the stronger and more useful the results become for everyone. So <a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/candidates/resources/salary-survey/">click here to take part</a> and get your personalised salary benchmark!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>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 it is. But if you're  [...]</p>
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<p>I keep seeing recruiters announcing on LinkedIn that they&#8217;ve been &#8220;retained&#8221; to recruit another senior treasury role.</p>
<p>Sometimes they even add that it&#8217;s confidential.</p>
<p>But I always find myself thinking&#8230;</p>
<p><strong><em>Are you really retained, or are you just pretending?</em></strong></p>
<p>Not because retained recruitment isn&#8217;t a real thing. Of course it is.</p>
<p>But if you&#8217;re a treasury professional thinking about your next move, the word &#8220;retained&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t be what convinces you to have a conversation.</p>
<p>What matters is something much simpler…</p>
<p><strong>Does that recruiter actually know the role?</strong></p>
<p>Do they:</p>
<ul>
<li>Understand what the business is trying to achieve?</li>
<li>Know why the previous person left?</li>
<li>Know what success in the role looks like?</li>
</ul>
<p>Or are they simply reading out a job description?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the difference.</p>
<p><strong>A recruiter working on a genuine retained search really knows their client.</strong></p>
<p>They understand the business, would’ve challenged the brief, and know what the hiring manager really wants – not just what ended up being written on the job advert.</p>
<p>And if it’s confidential, maybe they can&#8217;t tell you who the company is straight away.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s reasonable.</p>
<p>We often recruit roles on a confidential basis ourselves.</p>
<p>There are all sorts of legitimate reasons for that:</p>
<ul>
<li>There could be an internal restructure</li>
<li>The client may need to manage the transition carefully</li>
<li>Someone may not have announced they&#8217;re leaving yet</li>
</ul>
<p>That&#8217;s all part of the job.</p>
<p>What I don&#8217;t understand is when I see someone posting on LinkedIn that they&#8217;ve been retained on a confidential search&#8230; and that’s the end of their post.</p>
<p>To me, that’s like shouting to everyone you know a big secret, then just walking off…</p>
<p>What’s the point?</p>
<p>Often, I’m left wondering if they’re really telling the truth. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f914.png" alt="🤔" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>You certainly won’t ever hear that from me, <strong>because from a candidate&#8217;s point of view, the label doesn&#8217;t really matter.</strong></p>
<p>The quality of the conversation <em>does</em>.</p>
<p>If a recruiter can explain the business, the team, the challenges, the reporting lines, the culture, and why you&#8217;re being approached…</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s someone worth listening to.</strong></p>
<p>Whether they&#8217;re working on a retained search, a contingent assignment, or anything in between.</p>
<p>So next time a recruiter tells you they’ve been &#8220;retained&#8221; for an exclusive role, don&#8217;t assume that automatically means they&#8217;re the right person to trust with your career.</p>
<p>Ask a few questions. See how much they really know.</p>
<p>Because in my experience, it&#8217;s the quality of the recruiter that matters far more than the label they&#8217;re using.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p><a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/podcast/ep448-treasury-careers-salaries-hiring-whats-changed/"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-10630" src="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular-1024x576.jpg" alt="Treasury Careers Corner podcast episode 448 with Katie Hardie &amp; Mike Richards" width="521" height="293" srcset="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular-200x113.jpg 200w, https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular-300x169.jpg 300w, https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular-400x225.jpg 400w, https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular-600x338.jpg 600w, https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular-768x432.jpg 768w, https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular-800x450.jpg 800w, https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://treasuryrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/EP448-Why-Treasury-Careers-Are-About-More-Than-Salary-and-Job-Titles-YouTube-Thumbnail-Rectangular.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px" /></a></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[carly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>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  [...]</p>
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<p>I saw someone experience one of my own personal nightmares the other day.</p>
<p>Their event had completely flopped.</p>
<p>Lots of people had booked…</p>
<p>And no one showed up.</p>
<p>They’d posted about it on LinkedIn, but what struck me was that their frustration was aimed at the people who hadn&#8217;t come.</p>
<p>And I have to admit, I looked at it very differently…</p>
<p><strong>Because I&#8217;ve had events where attendance has been disappointing.</strong></p>
<p>In fact, one of our Treasury Career Corner LIVE events was probably the toughest one we&#8217;ve <em>ever </em>run.</p>
<p>Everything that could have gone wrong did.</p>
<p>The venue turned out to be much harder to reach than I&#8217;d realised.</p>
<p>It was the end of a long working day, so people were already tired.</p>
<p>One of my panellists had to pull out at the last minute.</p>
<p>It would have been very easy to blame the people who didn&#8217;t show up.</p>
<p>But honestly… how could I?</p>
<p><strong>No one owes me their evening.</strong></p>
<p>People have jobs and families. Trains get delayed. Meetings overrun. Life can get in the way.</p>
<p>If someone decides my event isn&#8217;t worth attending, or they simply can&#8217;t make it, that&#8217;s my problem to solve, not theirs.</p>
<p>So instead of getting annoyed, I asked myself a different question:</p>
<p><strong>What could I do better?</strong></p>
<p>And that one event has changed how we run ALL of our events today.</p>
<p>We make sure the location is easy to get to.</p>
<p>We became more selective about our speakers.</p>
<p>We thought far more carefully about the experience from the moment someone arrives.</p>
<p>And another big change came after I noticed something at another of our events…</p>
<p>There were several name badges left on the registration desk at the end of the evening. Most belonged to treasurers in junior roles. And that made me wonder…</p>
<p><strong>Maybe the event wasn&#8217;t giving enough value to people earlier in their treasury careers?</strong></p>
<p>I could’ve complained that they hadn&#8217;t turned up, but instead, we created something specifically for them.</p>
<p>Our new Ask the Treasurer sessions now give junior treasury professionals the opportunity to sit down with experienced Group Treasurers and ask whatever they want.</p>
<p>The response to Ask the Treasurer has been incredible.</p>
<p>People have told me how much they’ve enjoyed the sessions, but the biggest proof is that more junior treasury professionals are now turning up.</p>
<p>And more bums in seats tells me we created something they genuinely value.</p>
<p>So I don’t believe in shaming people who don’t attend your event.</p>
<p>Frankly, I think that’s just rude.</p>
<p><strong>My job is to make the next event so good that people don’t want to miss it.</strong></p>
<p>Of course, attending an event during or after a busy working day takes effort.</p>
<p>But it is also an investment in yourself.</p>
<p>An investment in your network, your knowledge and your treasury career.</p>
<p>And surely that’s worth making time for?</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>P.S. Our next Treasury Career Corner LIVE events are already filling up for this year! If you&#8217;d like to join us, I&#8217;d love to see you there. You can <a href="https://treasuryrecruitment.com/events/">find all the upcoming events and locations here</a>.</p>
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