Success stories

Before the full-scale war in Ukraine, Pavlo worked as a sales consultant in Kharkiv but was forced, like many Ukrainians, to evacuate to another city. So Rivne became his new home, and his new profession, which he decided to build from scratch, was project management. Bohdan was "caught" by a post on Beetroot Academy's social media about the scholarship program and decided to apply.

Nataliia has been practicing modern dance since she was five years old, and at the age of 18, she started working as a choreographer. She is a business manager by education and, for a while owned her own coffee shop. However, her love of logic, her creativity, and the success stories of her friends in IT inspired her to change her profession and try her hand at UI/UX design. Now Nataliia is working in her new profession and mentoring Academy graduates at the same time.

2017 Mykola graduated from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and worked as an automation system design engineer until 2022. And when he realized that there was more to automate at work, he decided to strengthen the team and chose to study Python as a programming language that was ideal for this. After searching and reading dozens of reviews, he decided on a course at Beetroot Academy, and that's how his tech career began.

Daryna was inspired to start a new career by her brother, who had worked in IT for over 12 years. His wife had completed a course at Beetroot Academy and had considerable experience in this field. So when the question arose of where to study, Daryna chose a school that her family trusted. She is currently working as a UI/UX designer, and the scholarship she won as one of 10 thousand Beetroot Academy graduates she presented to her husband — plus one student in the family.

Victoria had a prestigious position at the university, a stable income, and exciting students. It seemed like a dream job. Suppose it weren't for the fact that she had never been attracted to the academic world. Every year, lecturing became more and more depressing for Viktoriia, and with the outbreak of a full-scale war in Ukraine, it became an unbearable burden. On the advice of a friend already working in IT, the future business analyst completed a course at Beetroot Academy, grabbed the opportunity to work as a technical writer at first, and then worked her way up to the position she wanted.

‍‍Three Swedish students started online studying at Beetroot Academy and working on a real projects that needed help from UI/UX designer. Meet the fruit of their study, inspiring stories about getting a new profession, and insights from the learning process.

Thinking about reskilling and giving your career a fresh start? Our Tech Summer Marathon shows that it is possible. Here are inspiring stories of three women with immigrant background, who had huge difficulty to get their job in Sweden, changed their careers and plans for the future and got full Beetroot Academy scholarships to continue their study.