Mike Richards from the treasury recruitment company explains why they travel globally. Over a decade, they've built international networks at key conferences and connected with clients and candidates worldwide to understand treasury market trends across regions.
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Richards here from the treasury recruitment company. I've traveled the world over the past five years, well past 10 years with our international roadshow interviewing treasurers, also on the treasury career corner live stage about the their careers. What results have we seen from it? What does the world of treasury look like out there? One of the key comments I had at one of our last international conferences was from one of my clients. He said, mike, you seem to be everywhere at the moment. I was like, no, David, I'm not everywhere. I'm just everywhere that you are. And that's also, you know, it's thrilled because he said, it's great because you then by doing that, you know exactly what's happening, Mike, and you have your finger on the pulse. As treasury recruiters, and that's our job, we want to understand you and your motivations as candidates or if your clients are recruiting, we want to understand the treasury recruitment markets on a truly global basis. For instance, up until this year, I'd spoken at the past 10 years in Chicago, number of times at the US AFP conference. And our US business is growing, although there's been a bit of a pause button over the past six months. But I do see us coming back stronger than ever post summer. Katie, who runs our European desk, and I have become established in what we feel are underserved areas of the European treasury recruitment market. Areas such as Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Austria, for instance. I'm coming up. I'm the keynote speaker for the Nordic Conference shortly and when allowed to, we'll actually want to meet you face to face, rather than just chat to you on the phone. We want to get to know you, meet you face to face, get to explain to you what's happening in the treasury recruitment industry at that moment in time. That's our reward. And the success for us comes from knowing you, what you want and matching you. Whether you're a client or a candidate, recruiting or wanting to be recruited and looking for your next opportunity. Whatever it is, we're here to help you. Look forward to speaking to you soon.
