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Changing careers comes with a lot of risk and discomfort. Taking a paycut, loss of seniority or even job security, these things discourage people from making career moves.  Our guest today, Tolulope Adeyi, who is a Product Designer at Siglar Carbon (Norway), has real world experience with changing careers. After almost 7 years in marketing communications, Tolu took an 80% paycut and switched to product design. He shares with us the strategies that worked for him and how the decision worked out for him.  Don't forget to subscribe and share with friends and colleagues.

Certificate vs Experience. This episode, Tomisin interviews Victor Efedi, a Site Reliability Engineer at PagoNXT, a company based in Munich, Germany  Victor in an international remote worker,  and shares how he got his big international break. He also shares wisdom on how certifications can help you get interviews, especially early in your career. Please don't forget to subscribe, share with your friends and colleagues!

Earning in dollars is the current rave and everyone is trying to get an international remote job. But the queue is long! So, we had Israel Adetuwo of TestGorilla (Netherlands) join us for this episode. Israel is a Product Designer at TestGorila and shares with us how he was able to get a tech role at such a high profile company. He also highlights what helped him stand out during his job search and offers great insights to those who would want to break into the international tech space remotely. Please don't forget to subscribe, share with your friends and colleagues!

On our last episode, we started a conversation with Fumnanya about work culture. We discussed what work culture is, what it should look like and a lot more. In this episode, we continue the conversation. We speak in Fumnanya's experiences work culture wise; how he was able to navigate a work space with a bad work culture and how he feels now that he works in a space with a better work culture. He also gives us some very insightful career advice. So, listen to the first episode again and then listen to this one. It's a super awesome episode so, enjoy. Please don't forget to subscribe and share with your friends and colleagues. Until next time.

Building and maintaining a workspace with the right culture is one of the most important things in any industry and that also includes the tech industry. How then do we differentiate a good work culture from a bad one? How do we find a culture that fits and maintain it? Join our host; Tomisin and our very awesome guest; Fumnaya as they discuss work culture in the tech space. It's an interesting and pretty insightful conversation and we're sure you will agree after you listen. Please do not forget to share with your friends and colleagues and also subscribe. Thank you for listening!!!

On this episode, our host, Chinaza Mozie with our guest Ben O'bien; CEO Harbor Inc.Tech, discuss The Apprentech Program. The Apprentech Program is a program cretaed by Ydev Academy to help solve the employment problem in Africa.  The program seeks to train 5 million people in Africa; from any and every walk of life, in 36 months (3 years). We find out the most exciting things about this program. We also find out the start date and how to go about applying for the program.  Looking for an opportunity to accelerate your skill or an opportunity to contribute to the talent pool in Africa or train the talents you want to work in your company? The Apprentech Program is for you.  Listen to this episode to find out more. Please don't forget to subscribe and share!

On this episode, we discuss getting into tech and we are joined by our guest; Anesi Igebu. Anesi is a Product Manager at AEEIEE and on this episode she speaks about her career so far and her experience since she has been in the tech space. She also gives some sound advice for those looking to get into or transition into the tech space. It's such an amazing conversation; both entertaining and educative. Some of the resources Anesi shared are; 1. Grow on air with Google. 2. People in Product (on Twitter or Slack). 3. Super follow @everythingnaart on Twitter (2500 monthly). 4. Product School. She shared so many more gems too. Take a listen to find out. We had an awesome time recording this and you can tell. We're sure you'll have a wonderful time listening to this episode. Please do not forget to subscribe and share with friends and colleagues. 

Many people got into the tech space only to find out that the things they were told were lies. Shocking right?  Join our hosts Rukeme Olomu and Samuel Adegbuyi as they discuss some of the lies that have been told about the tech space. Listen and enjoy. Please, don't forget to like, subscribe and share with friends. We'd also like to hear from you... What lies were you told before you got into the tech space that we didn't mention on this episode. Send us a message and we'll definitely respond. Cheers!

We're back and better! Still your go-to podcast for all things tech, lifestyle, culture and everything in between. Hold on to your seats, subscribe  and tell everyone. you know to do the same. The TechLife Podcast is back!!!

In this episode, the Host: Ayobami Bamigboye have a conversation with Segun Adeyemi -an expert in FinTech and a Country manager at JUMO, on the state of the Nigerian Regulatory space, and how it affects the relevant stakeholders including the Established businesses, SMEs and Early-stage StartUps. As a follow-up to the former discussion, this episode explores even more ways in which the Nigerian Startup ecosystem can coexist even in its rabid and aggressive Regulatory environment. We explored why it is important to understand the 'Why' of regulators, what circumstances drive their motive and their decisions, as this would be a fair first step to truly understanding the system. ... Reach out to us via Twitter/Instagram @techlifecast, and by email at [email protected]. At Techlifecast, we aim to explore the intersection between Technology, Entertainment, and Lifestyle; probing the ways technology continues to impact our lifestyle, and by extension what the future holds for us, our immediate community, and the world at large.