On this episode of the podcast, we were joined by Dolapo Omotoso. She is the Revenue Growth Director at TransferGo and has had quite an interesting career progression. We discussed how she went from law student to customer support intern and now director. She also gave some amazing tips and advice.

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We talked about: 

Breakdown

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

We referenced:

TransferGo

PiggyVest

LemFi

Her article 

Treford

Temsi Africa 

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