Rebecca Hirschboeck talks about balancing family and career during Covid and what makes a strong treasury professional. She values curiosity, drive, and ownership in candidates, and pushes people to seek growth and mentorship within their organizations.
I think about myself and going through Covid with three small children and really, you know, at one point when all three kids were home from school, questioning how I was going to manage it all. I think at the time I realized I may have three small kids. This is my challenge. This is really hard. It's really hard to manage everything going on within the family but then also make sure that it starting a new job, that things are going successfully and I'm able to, you know, continue my successes within my career and really push myself at a new organization. But it also helped me realize that everyone else is going through something similar. It was not, not easy on anyone. Whether or not you had children or what your living circumstances were. Everyone was dealing with different challenges going through Covid. There are certain things that I really appreciate, especially when I see kind of some of the candidates coming through is curiosity really a lot. Oftentimes if you don't have that treasury experience, showing why you're interested in treasury, showing how you have demonstrated your curiosity over time, drive and really wanting to challenge yourself to grow, to develop, to learn something new and then ownership really showing that you can and will be kind of responsible for what we give you. So from my perspective it's, it's not necessarily about the experience. The experience is great. We love to see it. I think from our perspective we've been lucky and since I've started that we haven't had huge turnover but when we do and we find ourselves, you know, teaching and growing kind of the new people that come into the team, it takes away from some of the other opportunities to potentially work on more, you know, strategic and growth oriented projects. That being said, it is a growth oriented project in itself in developing talent and hopefully creating people that want to stick around in treasury or stick around in the organization if treasury isn't their, their end goal. So yeah, so for me it's really drive challenging yourself and having a growth mentality. It never hurts to ask for projects. It never hurts to look and ask for opportunities to partner on cross functional projects within the organization. Never asked to ask for mentors. It's a great area of opportunity to kind of understand and have conversations with someone to build out what your expectations for your career are and get really honest feedback. So look for those opportunities, challenge yourself to get outside of your comfort zone, find areas where you want to specifically grow that aren't necessarily skill sets that you already have. Just look for the challenges.
