Not every individual learning a tech skill is doing so as a hobby. Of course, some people love coding or designing as a hobby, but most people equip themselves with tech skills to penetrate the tech industry.
But, just as Ola from Lagos is working hard to level up and find the perfect tech job, Smith from New York is doing the same. The truth is that while looking for a job might be difficult, looking for the perfect tech job that fits your location, strengths, skills, and experience is 100x more stressful.
There is, however, some good news. Aside from the millions of job-searching websites available, some tech influencers who have faced obstacles and found a way to overcome them are using social media to provide techies with job opportunities, tips to navigate the application processes, and basically everything they need to know about job hunting in the market.
In this article, here are 5 tech influencers to follow if you are looking to land your next tech job.
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1. Frantz Kati
- Profession: Udemy Tech instructor
- Social media following: Twitter- 25,000 followers
Frantz is on a mission to help techies grow successful careers in the industry. He often posts free educational content on Twitter on accelerating your software engineering career growth.
He runs a weekly newsletter, The Growth Letter, and created a “World-Class” Software Engineering Roadmap to help accelerate your career growth as a software engineer. Apart from these juicy freebie services available for techies, he also provides interview tips.
So, if you are already a software engineer, a newbie in the software engineering world, or are looking to break into the tech industry in general, then Frantz Kati is one influencer you should be following.
2. David Herbert
- Profession: Technical Writer
- Social media following: Twitter- 33,000 followers, LinkedIn- 10,000 followers
If you are a techie who is confused about how to go about job hunting, then you should join the thousands of people following David and learn how to build your career in the tech industry.
His tips have helped many people who are either aspiring techies or newbies in the tech industry land their first tech jobs as interns with both local and international companies. He has gotten many flowers from top players in the space for his role in building tech careers.
So, if you are new in the space and looking to hit the jackpot with an internship position, follow David Herbert to get the nitty gritty information on landing your first tech job.
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3. Chisom Nwokwu
- Profession: Software Engineer
- Social media following: Twitter- 49,000 followers, LinkedIn- 18,000 followers
If you are looking for mentorship opportunities or coaching sessions on landing a job in the big tech markets, Chisom, aka the tech queen, is the surest plug and one you might need to follow.
Apart from posting big tech job opportunities that are open to the African audience, reviewing resumes, and hosting mock interviews, Chisom has also written a book titled A Techie’s Guide Into Big Tech Companies. As a software engineer with Microsoft, Chisom believes the book is a complete roadmap to help techies land jobs at international companies.
So, if your dream is to work for big tech companies like Twitter, Google, or Microsoft, you don’t want to miss out on Chisom’s posts on her social media platforms.
4. Gift Ojeabulu
- Profession: Data Scientist and Advocate
- Social media following: Twitter- 22,000 followers, LinkedIn- 8,000 followers
If you are looking to go into a whole different industry in the tech ecosystem, data science/analytics/ML, you might want to follow Gift, he can be your go-to mentor plug.
Gift is keen on building a social media community of like-minded people also interested in the Data/AI/ML space. He currently has a newsletter where he advocates for Africans’ work in the AI/ML space, provides awareness, and spotlights people’s work in building the African data community.
He also posts jobs, scholarship opportunities and educational articles to help his audience understand the space better. He is also a podcast host at Datapodchat. As a newbie in the data/AI/ML industry, you can follow Gift and tap from his knowledge.
5. Sultan Akintunde aka Hacksultan
- Profession: Co-founder of Alt School Africa and TalentHQ
- Social media following: Twitter- 171,000 followers, LinkedIn- 65,000 followers
If you are an active social media user in the tech industry, you most probably know HackSultan. Apart from being the co-founder of AltSchool Africa, he has been influencing, empowering, and building tech careers with educative content.
From networking opportunities to step-by-step towards overcoming a tech-related challenge, to job opportunities, to a fun newsletter that contains all of the happenings in the tech space on social media and just motivational posts for the tech community, HackSulan has grown to become a popular figure.
One piece of advice, as a developer, follow him on all social media platforms to get first-hand details of much of the information and happenings in the Nigerian tech space. Also, you can end up networking with like-minded individuals just by engaging with his post.
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