If you ask Craig Conti of Verra Mobility – one the the finalists for FEI Arizona’s CFO of the Year Awards – about his best job move, it might surprise you.

“The best career decision I ever made was taking a job at a locomotive factory in Erie, Pennsylvania, after leaving Downtown Chicago,” says Conti, a finalist for FEI Arizona’s CFO of the Year Awards. “Socially, it was a terrible move. Professionally, it was the best decision of my career. I got a job that was far bigger than what I probably deserved at the time because nobody else wanted to move there. In three years, I gained the equivalent of 10 years of experience.”

Conti says when he now coaches young professionals, he encourages them to always run toward the tough industry or the tough market.

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