Jane Egerton-Idehen: Riding on the crest of excellence
Jane Egerton-Idehen is the Head Of Sales Middle East & Africa at Facebook.
She is an epitome of beauty, intelligence, perseverance, unmatched ambition, and tenacity to excell in a male dominated field as engineering. She has studied at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Warwick where she obtained a Masters in Business Administration. Jane has many feathers on her cap. A tech executive, author, speaker, influencer, wife, mother of two, and a rare ability to achieve work, life balance.
Like the holy writ says: “In a period of cast down, there shall be lifting up”. The amazing story of Jane Egerton-Idehen is a grass-to-grace one moving from the slums of Ajegunle to the country side of Dublin. Her first job, managing satellite links as an Earth Space Engineer, was an opportunity that came to her through the advice of a kind secretary after weeks of scouting Lagos in search of a job. She spent a month cloning and selling computers at another firm within the vicinity to make enough money to continue to commute from Ajegunle to the Island where the company was located.
Jane had actually been an astute sales expert. Eleven years ago, she was the Acting Customer Team Head at MTN. Then she left for Ericsson, and became Key Account Manager Ghana and Liberia. She spent five years at Ericsson, and Country Manager and Sales Director at Avanti Communications Group Plc.
Her current job came as heaven sent, courtesy LinkedIn platform recruitment tool. In her words: “September 2020, right in the middle of the pandemic, I was contacted by a headhunter on LinkedIn after apparently checking my LinkedIn profile. After a couple of phone calls with him where he explained to me about the job opening and the role, he caught my attention. I sent through my CV and we started the recruitment process. I did all the required interviews via video calls and finally landed a new job in an industry I had always aspired to work for. This job would also be a huge transition for me as I would be relocating to a new continent; from Lagos, Nigeria to Dublin, Ireland in Europe. All of this happened because of social media and the Internet. This all happened without meeting anyone physically. This is the power of social media and the internet. This is the future”.
Jane had deployed LinkedIn as a recruitment tool for others in the past. She would go on LinkedIn to check candidates’ profiles before interviewing them or generally look up people’s work experience in the industry or sector before meetings. She said that in the past, she had been approached by headhunters on the platform and have even recommended candidates for them to reach out on LinkedIn. Last year, she was surprised to be headhunted on the platform and got to work with her dream organisation. Her story will always serve as an inspiration to others and the younger generation.
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