From Struggle to Success: Breaking Into the Corporate World

From Struggle to Success: Breaking Into the Corporate World
Shaliyah Ali (L) at Workforce Opportunity Services. Courtesy of Workforce Opportunity Services/Shaliyah Ali
Andrew Thomas
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Shaliyah Ali vividly remembers passing the headquarters of Prudential Financial Inc. in Newark, New Jersey, as a teenager, and always wondered what must have been going on behind the glass doors of the towering building.

She wasn’t really thinking about insurance or finance as a career. Nevertheless, she was inquisitive about what must be going on inside that large corporate building.