Ibukun Itimi ๐ฅ
@ibukun_itimi
The Thriving Career Coach & Host of Come Tech With Us pod๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป๐ง || Engineering Manager @ Lyft ๐ || ex-Wise ๐ & Paystack ๐ || Get 1:1 Career Coaching ๐๐พ
Officially starting a thread of my career coaching clientโs wins โค๏ธ O. came to me about 6 months ago. She was a few weeks into her first engineering lead role and wasnโt sure how to navigate it and deliver. Our sessions were focused on succeeding in a new role using myโฆ
When my client who has been in Canada for almost 2 years without getting a job gets 2 jobs in 3 months of us working together ๐๐ Her: Ibukun, Iโm finally back on track Me: ๐ฅน๐ฅน๐ฅน
I like this one and I think you guys should hear her idea out
I love the trend where the girls introduce their s/o and their hobby and stand menacingly in the background to make sure youโre watching and clapping ๐.
Weโre ready ๐๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ
Thank you London, Toronto, youโre up next ! #ISWIS2025Live ๐ด๏ธ@kaicollective
Us just waiting casually for Davido to show. FK: Hello boys & girls the show is about to start ๐ฅน๐ฅน๐ฅน๐ฅน
Omg iswis people the way I screamed when I heard FKโs voice at Davidoโs concert. I was like FK told ussss ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
And it was ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Davido presented with a SOLD OUT Plaque for Scotiabank Arena ๐จ๐ฆ
This is a public service announcement,If youโre still waiting to get tickets to our London show, the time is NOW Thereโs no waiting list, no secret stash of tickets, so please, click the link below,get your tickets and letโs make our president proud๐ dice.fm/event/wwovlv-iโฆ
Three things that helped me a lot in my early career 1. Instead of asking what to do, I say what I think should be done and ask for inputs 2. I try never refuse/complain about a course of action without proposing an alternative 3. Milk your strong points (mine was slides)
I wasnโt sure about sharing this but one thing that I really love about the internet is being silently inspired by other parents. @fonabasi shared a story of her using Queen primer with her son a few years ago. At the time my son was already reading some words but that inspiredโฆ
Ladies & gentlemen we have a reader ๐๐พ. Weโre 5 now, reading independently and have recently fallen in love with comics I apparently gave birth to myself. My dad used to complain about me reading too much as a kid but this one, I love it l! ๐ฅน๐ฅน Itโs the reading positions forโฆ
I need to wear Asoebi, attend Owambe & dance to Nigerian music like yesterday ๐ซ
Lots to think about every single day nawa, make adulthood no make person kolo abeg
I really tried my best๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ
My toxic trait is that I can't sleep without a blanket or something covering me up, even in a heat wave! ๐ฉ๐ฉ
We listen, we fit judge you later: Sleep edition.
1. Become a sponge. Soak up EVERYTHING! Depending on bandwidth, volunteer and ask PLENTY questions, forget about looking like a fool when you ask. 2. Your career growth is your responsibility, not HR or your line manager. 3. Youโre your strongest advocate. SPEAK UP!!!
What is the best piece of career advice you have for someone early in their journey?
H1 ended with a ๐ฅ โ Earlier this year, I signed my first corporate client for Come Tech With Us ๐ฅน Not only am I seeing growth in their engineers who Iโm coaching, yesterday we wrapped up a contract that slashes Observability spend by ~65%. Thatโs hundreds of thousands ofโฆ
Itโs Monday and Iโm excited to announce one of my newest projects with you ๐ฅน ๐ My new @LinkedIn Learning course is live: Scaling Azure Deployments with Bicep! This oneโs for the cloud engineers, DevOps folks, and infra-nerds (like me ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ) who want to go beyond basics and buildโฆ
We're partnering with @DominionEro to grant 250 African learners access to our Game Developer Career Accelerator program! Link to enter below.
I'm happy to announce that @udemy and I are collaborating to grant 250 Africans access to game development courses via Udemy's Career Accelerator.๐ฅ Register or share this with someone who should not miss this opportunity.๐๐พ #AfricaGamesFuture #UdemyGamingAfrica #GameDevAfrica
Moses has great career advice What he's talking about is being PROACTIVE with your career. Look at different industries, do informational interviews (80%+ of people will talk to you for 15 minutes). Create a vision of what you want. I once had an employee write into hisโฆ
If you are entering your late 20s, having kind of tried a bunch of different jobs that don't fit together into a coherent career, and without having got promoted in any of them: Time to get real. Take an entry-level job in an industry that has big, profitable companies thatโฆ
This is more than an acquisition to me. Itโs a meeting of hearts, values, and vision โฅ๏ธ @useMiraHQ joins @chowdeck, and together, we are setting out to build the technology that will power the future of Africaโs food economy. This is for the vendors who trust us, the riders whoโฆ