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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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!!!

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.

In this episode Victoria and Biyi, discusses the nuances of keeping your data safe while online, and the best practices needed to ensure that your private information is truly secure.

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Reach out to us via Twitter/Instagram @techlifecast, and by email at techlifecast@harbor-inc.org.

In this podcast, 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.]

In this episode Victoria and Ayobami, discusses and explores the possibility of all Nigerians going fully remote, and what the ramifications are.

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Reach out to us via Twitter/Instagram @techlifecast, and by email at techlifecast@harbor-inc.org.