Your Career: Is it Choice or Chance?

Yael Shur Shmueli, Amdocs Head of HR Strategy and Technology Units, talks to Fiona Malone, Amdocs Network Business Operations Project Manager, about embracing new beginnings after an acquisition.  Join them as Fiona shares her unique career journey, organization change and the opportunities and challenges that go with it. Key Takeaways: Career life after a merger  There are significant u...

Reetu Raina, Head of Talent Management, talks to Itzhak Tueg, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Implementation Manager, about the opportunities for upskilling and why it’s valuable to our careers. With a more than twenty-year career in software, Itzhak started in the testing domain and today manages production. Itzhak believes that his progress is due to upskilling which added knowledge to his ca...

Mike MacDade, Executive Chief of Staff, talks to luliana Secrieru, Product Manager in Digital Brands and Youth Product, about coming back and embracing leave. In this episode, luliana shares her personal experiences, talks about the different types of leave, and shares insights for colleagues who are considering taking leave.  Key Takeaways: Embrace whatever kind of leave you have when you ta...

In the sixth episode, Yael Shur, Amdocs Head of HR Strategy and Technology Units, talks to Sumit Kaul, Director of Service Delivery and Solution Sales, about the difference between management and leadership. Hear Sumit’s career journey and how working with multicultural teams has helped him better understand people.  Key Takeaways: Management vs Leadership:  Management is orientated towa...

In this episode, Mike MacDade, Executive Chief of Staff, interviews Hela Shaked, HR Partner, about the importance of career coaching. Join them as Hela shares her personal journey and how career coaching helped her grow and develop.  Key Takeaways: Career coaching- It’s an amazing opportunity that allows employees to stop and check if they are on the right path. It allows employees to ask the...

Join Reetu Raina, Head of Talent Management, and Nati Oz Sinay, Global Business Vice President, as they talk about relocation. Nati shares his personal experiences and what he thinks the advantages of relocation are. Nati relocated from Israel to the Philippines five years ago and this is his first relocation. Key Takeaways: Relocation is good for your career - Research shows that people believe t...

Yael Shur Shmueli, Head of HR for Media, Network, Technology, Next & M&A, interviews Lalit Kale, Lead Platform Architect, on leading development - career growth for technologists without people management. Lalit has been working in IT for more than 17 years with different technologies. He shares what he finds exciting about his position and the world of growth for people specialized in tec...

Join Reetu Raina as she interviews Shir Erlichman, an HR Partner at Amdocs who has been with the company for three years. Shir most recently completed her MSc in Organizational Behavior at Tel Aviv University. As a Gen Z herself, Shir discusses with Reetu her career at Amdocs and shares some of the challenges that she has faced and how her career is a combination of both choice and chance.  K...

Join host Mike MacDade as he interviews Daphne Gottschalk, a business consultant at Amdocs who has been with the company for 19 years. Daphne has worked in a variety of roles, including as a VP of marketing, in talent management for HR and in mergers and acquisitions, and has the opportunity to live and work in the US and Israel. She shares her insights into the challenges, and the many advan...

Yael, Mike and Reetu come together to introduce you to Careers: is it choice or chance? Learn about each host’s unique perspective and get excited about this season's roster of guests. Throughout the upcoming episodes, your hosts will explore upskilling, moving between units, working with Gen Z and more!  Subscribe today to be the first to know about new episodes.  Learn more about Yael:...