Success stories of our beets

Studying began 25 days before the full-scale war. Before the war, I was a private children's institution network director. I also participated in opening a sizeable private gymnasium, where children from the first to the seventh-grade study. I am a German and English philologist by education. I loved my job very much and, unfortunately, I could have been more mobile. I had to work 24/7, almost without weekends and holidays. The work was very energy-consuming, and in the end, I exhausted my internal resource. I wanted a change and chose to study UI/UX design. I wanted to be able to work remotely, travel and be financially independent. The IT profession would help me achieve my goals. I was advised to join the Beetroot Academy by a friend who had already graduated and successfully worked for over two years in one of the best IT companies in Ukraine. As I mentioned earlier, the studying coincided with the full-scale invasion of Russia. Like millions of other Ukrainians, I was forced to leave the city where I used to live. Studying helped me come through it for six months. What struck me the most was that even though my classmates and I were from completely different cities and parts of Ukraine, we were on the same wavelength. There was a lot of support from all sides. It was a tremendous support, I received a lot of friendly advice, and I had incredible people by my side; I am very grateful for all this. Of course, I also got the knowledge I needed, so I achieved my goal. Three weeks after graduating from Beetroot Academy, I received a freelance project. Employers found me on LinkedIn thanks to my graduation project, which many people liked and commented on. The reach of my post was almost 8 thousand users. When I started working, many moments were for the first time for me. I wrote to my teacher, got some support from her, and started working. I worked on this project for two months. The company that communicated with me liked my work, so after another two months, they offered me a full-time position. This company is called E-cents, their main office is located in Dubai, but I work with their office based in Germany.

Before the courses at the academy, I worked as a Customer Support Team Lead in a product company. At that time, I had a master's degree in philology, specialising in oriental languages. Since I had no professional development, I understood that this was different from what I wanted to do in the future. But everything changed thanks to studying at Beetroot Academy. I read a lot of specialised literature and searched for information about the Project Manager profession. But I understood that I would not be able to structurally and qualitatively master the basics of this profession on my own. I was choosing among several schools, but on the website of the Beetroot Academy, I found information about the course, which immediately caught my attention. Before studying, I expected we would be taught a lot of theoretical material. But the excellent teacher Oleksiy Kravchenko told us a lot about how everything works in practice and always motivated and helped us. I am very grateful to him for that. I have been working as a project manager at University for about 1.5 years, so studying helped me a lot. I had been looking for a job for about six months; sometimes, I stopped the search for a while, and sometimes I turned down several companies because the conditions of cooperation did not suit me. The most challenging thing for me in this process was the need for more professional experience. I was repeatedly told at interviews that the employer liked me and I had the necessary knowledge, but it would be better if I had at least six months of experience. It helped me; I always honestly said I don't know everything or have practice, but I'm a fast learner and ready to invest time in my development.