Own Your Career: Break the Corporate Blueprint and Build Your Own Ladder - Hardcover

by Michela Allocca (Author)

Imbue your career with purpose and meaning

In Own Your Career: Break the Corporate Blueprint and Build Your Own Ladder, popular financial analyst and entrepreneur Michela Allocca delivers an exciting new discussion of how to break the corporate blueprint and forge your own path to a fulfilling and rewarding career. You'll learn to find happiness and purpose at work, whether you're interested in climbing the corporate ladder or embarking on a different path.

The book offers a collection of tactical strategies you can apply immediately within your career to start getting more out of your day job and redefine what success means to you. You'll find:

• Effective tactics for positioning yourself in your resume, articulating your skills in interviews, and negotiating your compensation to ensure you are not only landing the job, but that it's as lucrative as possible.
• Practical strategies to navigate career changes and make intentional career decisions with confidence.
• Systems to maximize your earning potential and build a successful side hustle you can take to the next level

A can't-miss guide for young professionals, the newly graduated, and aspiring entrepreneurs, Own Your Career offers realistic advice to excel at work and take your professional power back, both inside and outside of the office.

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You're fresh out of school, ready to start your career and begin the next chapter of your life. But after just a few months in the working world, you've realized you've been fed a lie. Everything you thought work would be--it's not real. The reality of the next 45 years of your life starts to sink in. How do people live like this?

In Own Your Career: Break the Corporate Blueprint and Build Your Own Ladder, popular financial analyst and entrepreneur Michela Allocca walks you through her corporate journey, explaining how she ultimately left her corporate career to dive headfirst into her side hustle-turned-full blown business. From feeling completely lost and unhappy in a job that she spent years of her life preparing for, to ultimately utilizing the skills she learned at work to build a seven figure business, Michela shares every lesson she learned along the way that helped pave her path to her own definition of success--giving you all of the insight you need to do the same on your unique path.

As you read, you'll learn how to communicate your skillset and sell yourself through resume and interview techniques, decipher job offers, negotiate your salary to ensure you are being paid fairly, succeed in the workplace through creating a task-management system, navigate career pivots with confidence, and increase your income through starting a side hustle or a business that you can take to the next level.

If you're ready for a fresh approach, you've come to the right place. Empowering readers to finally find happiness in their working lives, Own Your Career: Break the Corporate Blueprint and Build Your Own Ladder earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all individuals seeking a better approach to a successful career, especially young adults and those fresh out of college.

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Praise for OWN YOUR CAREER

"With valuable lessons on embracing career ownership, finding purpose beyond work, dispelling the glamorization of jobs, and advocating for oneself, Michela Allocca's Own Your Career sets the stage for a practical and empowering guide to navigating the complexities of early career years. If you're ready to embrace the multiple seasons of your career with confidence and real-world advice, this book is for you."
--LAUREN McGOODWIN, Founder + CEO, Career Contessa

"Packed with straightforward and actionable takeaways, I highly recommend reading Own Your Career! This book is full of direct and useful tips you can use at any stage of your career. Michela fully guides you on how to prepare and feel more confident in interviews and the workplace."
--DARCI SMITH, Founder + CEO, Roklyn Consulting

"As someone who turned a side hustle into a seven-figure business, Own Your Career masterfully lays out the blueprint I wish I had when I embarked on this journey. Whether you're just starting your post-college career or navigating life as an entrepreneur, this book has every tidbit to help ensure long-term success."
--AUSTIN HANKWITZ, Host of Rich Habits, #1 Spotify Business Podcast

"The book I wish I had when I was a lost 22-year-old starting my journey in corporate. Michela did a delightful job putting together a prescriptive guide full of important and needed information for those of us who want to find more meaning in our work. This is THE book I want my daughters to read when they are ready to navigate their careers and job search."
--EDDIANA ROSEN, HR Professional, Founder @CareersInReview

Author Biography

MICHELA ALLOCCA is a former financial analyst-turned-entrepreneur, creator, and author specializing in personal finance, career, and business management. Since starting Break Your Budget in 2019, her dedication to educating young adults has created a platform with over 1 million followers and counting that speaks directly to the growing number of young people who are ready to take their personal, professional, and financial power back.