{"id":2880,"date":"2025-11-12T17:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/from-hard-hats-to-high-stakes-how-risk-consultant-bridges-the-gap-between-building-and-insurance\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:41:36","slug":"from-hard-hats-to-high-stakes-how-risk-consultant-bridges-the-gap-between-building-and-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/from-hard-hats-to-high-stakes-how-risk-consultant-bridges-the-gap-between-building-and-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"From hard hats to high stakes: How risk consultant bridges the gap between building and insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><strong>A career pivot: from job sites to consulting<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Jacquel\u2019s entry into insurance was unplanned. \u201cI was a safety manager in the construction field back in the early 2000s,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThen around 2007, 2008, when the economic crash happened, the construction industry, especially where I was working, just dried up. When we finished our projects, there was nowhere to go.\u201d Facing limited options, Jacquel applied for a role with a construction-specific insurance carrier. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like I had this plan to be in the insurance industry. I understood the basics, but it wasn\u2019t something I was lobbying for. I thought I\u2019d be in it for a year or two and then go back to construction. That was 16 years ago. Clearly, I was incredibly wrong on that assessment. No regrets. I enjoy it. It\u2019s been good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A career pivot: from job sites to consulting Jacquel\u2019s entry into insurance was unplanned. \u201cI was a safety manager in the construction field back in the early 2000s,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThen around 2007, 2008, when the economic crash happened, the construction industry, especially where I was working, just dried up. When we finished our projects, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1779,871,1778,1545,1775,1776,301,11,426,1777],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-bridges","tag-building","tag-consultant","tag-gap","tag-hard","tag-hats","tag-high","tag-insurance","tag-risk","tag-stakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}