Mike Richards from a treasury recruitment company walks through how COVID-19 disrupted the treasury job market and introduces a free eight-week coaching program to help professionals get ready for hiring to resume after lockdown.
Hello everyone, it's Mike Richards from the treasury recruitment company here. And we're back. Now, although it would be fair to say we couldn't really go anywhere in this lockdown COVID 19 world, really, could we? As recent events have taken place across the world, well, taken over the world really, I decided that we, well, we wouldn't join in with the huge amount of social media noise that there was out there in the world. I decided that what we should do is wait. We should wait until we could offer you guys, our treasury professionals, some answers to the questions that I'm getting asked on a daily basis. The questions I get asked are things like, mike, are there any roles out there going, are you recruiting? We are. What is the impact that's been felt and what steps should I be taking as a candidate to get ready for the return of the market? To help you, we've created a market market overview, if you like, that accompanies this video. Let's have a quick read. As I say, I initially thought that markets across the world might come to a shuddering halt. Suffice to say, and I'm pleased to say I was wrong, actually, what's happened is things have carried on, markets have been affected, yes, but they've all reacted differently. It's nearly May. European clients are already starting to re recruit. UK clients are interviewing remotely and they've promised they're going to be doing face to face interviews later, which is great. And yes, it's going to get quieter, as it always does over July and August, but that's holiday time anyway, so we're used to that. So come September and the rest of 2020, I do see a return and the market getting better. Treasury professionals are especially in high demand, as you always are, particularly relative to other finance professionals. But you're asking yourselves, what do you need to do to prepare for the return of these markets? Let me think. Just imagine if only there were like an eight week free bounce back program, you know, where we coach you as candidates, we can prepare for the return of the market. You can assess your current skill set. Okay, Define your career aims, your goals, work out what salary you want to get to by the end of this year and next year, maybe how to improve your CV and LinkedIn profile, brush up some interview skills, create your own job search strategy and if only it were free, where you can get match fit for the next eight weeks whilst you're still in lockdown. Well, maybe there is. Yeah, there is. It's our treasury recruitment company Bounce Back coaching program. So each week we're going to set you some individual challenges. We'll support you with video content, both existing and some new videos. We host a regular Zoom video call where we talk through some of the challenges, share some of the results, celebrate the wins, and maybe even give out some awards at the end as well. We want to be able to give you the tools to help you make your next treasury career move. Just go to the website treasuryrecruitment. Com, look for the Bounce back page, and I look forward to us helping you achieve the next stage of your treasury career journey. Many thanks.
