Meet Osita Nwajiufor, Career Strategist cum Tech Executive and Founder of NIPCA and BlackTECH, on the podcast today. Listen up as Osita gets underneath the struggle, experience, and lessons learned in his career about job-finding, business-building, and capability-building, and how they’ve set him up on an enriching and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey!

Episode clues:

• NIPCA was started with purely generous intentions and charged no membership fees from its people. Osita had to pay for the help resources himself, yet he focussed on the larger goal, which was being of help to people.

• What are transferable skills? How do you leverage them? How do you leverage them?

• Why is unemployment a big concern for Nigerians in Canada? Osita explains that there are multiple reasons, including:

  • Lack of community-building and socializing skills: Associating with the right people and identifying and engaging in forward and progressive thinking communities is necessary if you’d like to be a successful working professional in another country.

  • Impostor syndrome: Osita explains that most Nigerians face Imposter Syndrome when working in another country. They must understand that if they’re doing so well in their home country, they can do that anywhere else too. They just have to keep up the momentum.

• Advice for people to build a successful business: Run your business with a startup mindset.

  Connect with Osita

  LinkedIn:

  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ositaman/

  • https://www.linkedin.com/company/blacktechhub/

  Join Nipca

  Websites:

  • https://blacktechhub.org/about-us/

  • https://nipca.ca/

  • https://nipca.ca/about-us/

  • https://nipca.ca/evolvesummit/