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.

The last place of work before I started studying at the Beetroot Academy course was as the operations director of a company that owns shopping centres throughout Ukraine. I already worked in IT 10 years ago, before it became mainstream. Then, with a friend, we created an IT product company when we were still both students. After that experience, life took me to other fields and parts of the world. When full-scale war broke out, I decided that this was the time to get back into IT. I needed to refresh my knowledge. Therefore, on my friend's advice, I came to study at the Beetroot Academy, where I found theoretical material and motivation to move on. Mentor Tymofiy Vetrogradov helped me restore my self-confidence, which became part of my success. Everything I got from my studies was not 100, but 120 % of what I expected. And I achieved exactly the goal I was aiming for. I liked the students' motivation to move forward and the emotional ecosystem in the studying process. I needed to choose the right path, considering all the experience I received. At that time, choosing a profession in IT was my most responsible choice. A Project Manager position would be boring, so I aimed for C-level, Product Manager, and Product Owner positions. After a month of conscientious work on the CV and two dozen interviews, my job found me: the role of Product Manager in a product company in Game Development. I encountered some psychological difficulties during the job search, but the mentor helped me overcome them. I am very grateful to him.