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Taking Charge of your Career Growth in Tech
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Taking Charge of your Career Growth in Tech

Dolapo Omotoso is a Revenue Growth Director at TransferGo. She has had quite an impressive and interesting journey, from being a law student to customer support intern and now her current role as Revenue Growth Director.

We talked about:

  • Dolapo’s career progression

  • Putting yourself out there

  • The importance of volunteering

  • Being open to learning

  • Relating with your manager

Key takeaways:

  1. Always be willing to learn

  2. Put yourself on people’s radars by volunteering

  3. Don’t be afraid to go after what you want

  4. Move with audacity, but make sure you can back it up

  5. Make sure your manager recognises your work and always make the look good

  6. Learn to take breaks and have boundaries at work

Find Dolapo

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omotoso-dolapo-3a32b413b/

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In this episode we cover:

0:00 Intro

3:02 Icebreaker game

10:41 How to navigate the job market

19:56 How to position yourself and what courses to take

24:20 How to get into tech

28:02 How to grow from social media manager to marketing specialist

40:28 How Dolapo got into marketing

56:44 Know when and how to advocate for yourself

1:00:38 Learn from you manager and make sure they recognise your work

1:05:53 Is work-life balance really important?

1:12:22 How long should you stay at a job?

1:16:16 Why she moved to TransferGo

1:18:20 Dolapo's career highlights and advice for others

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We referenced:

TransferGo

PiggyVest

LemFi

Her article

Treford

Temsi Africa

RACI chart

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  2. Managing Nigeria’s Tech Talents: The Unique Dynamics

Until next time, stay curious!

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