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Data Analyst & Tech Educator | Co-Founder, Webdeves | MSc Data Science and Big Data Analytics 🎓 | Helping Africans break into Tech 🌍

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4. One real project, shared publicly. Build it, publish it, write about it. One visible project will outperform a stack of certificates in almost every application I've reviewed.

Learning isn't the expensive part. Not having anything to show for it is.

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The most expensive mistake I see beginners make in tech costs ₦200,000.

It isn't a bad laptop or the wrong programming language. It's paying for a premium course on the assumption that the price will buy employability.

It won't. Here's where I'd point that ₦200k instead:

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3. Google Career Certificates (via Coursera). Free to audit, with financial aid available. Tracks include Data Analytics, IT Support, UX Design and Cybersecurity.
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This boy has finished me 😭 😭

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♻️ Repost to help someone starting their tech journey.

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Most beginners I speak to aren't short on AI tools. They have too many, and no clear idea which one to open for which task.

Here's the starter kit I recommend to anyone breaking into tech, one tool per job: 🔽 🔽

#TechCareers #AITools #CareerGrowth #Upskilling #BreakIntoTech

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All four offer a free tier, so cost doesn't have to be the barrier.

My advice: don't try all four at once. Pick the one that matches the skill you're building now, use it on something real this week, and judge it on the result.

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4. Canva Magic Studio: design and content It turns a rough idea into a polished graphic, presentation or portfolio piece in minutes. That matters when you need to present your work well and don't have a design background.

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3. GitHub Copilot: coding and building It suggests code as you type, inside your editor. It won't replace learning the fundamentals, but seeing working examples in context speeds that learning up a lot.

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2. Perplexity: research and fact-checking It answers with cited sources, so you can verify a claim before you repeat it. It's especially useful for researching a company before an application or interview.

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1. ChatGPT: writing and thinking Use it to draft, explain a concept you're stuck on, or brainstorm project ideas. Treat it as a thinking partner, not an answer machine.

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Mid-Week, New Motivation... Who else has been here? 😁
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Keep the hustle going 💪💪

#techlife #BreakingIntoTech #focokoncept #pricing #uk

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How to become poor 😢 😅

Start observing yourself😂
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#techlovers #focokoncept #BreakingIntoTech #techcareer #tech

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Which one are you guilty of?

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Recruiters spend ~11 seconds on your CV.

5 things wasting those seconds:
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Fix one a day for five days. Then re-send.

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5) Tables, columns, graphics.
Looks great to you. Most ATS can't parse it. Rejected before a human ever looks.

Clean single column wins.

Fix one line a day for five days, then re-send the applications you gave up on.