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22 November 2024, 09:00
2024-11-22
What hurts June. The stories of seven beginners who faced ups and downs in the job search, about interviews, tests and dream companies
For two months, beginners from Aitiv shared with dev.ua stories about their paths, difficulties and curious situations that befell them in search of their dream offer.
We are ending the column «What hurts June» and today we collect for you all seven stories of switchers and IT and technology enthusiasts who told how they feel in the oversaturated «employer» market.
For two months, beginners from Aitiv shared with dev.ua stories about their paths, difficulties and curious situations that befell them in search of their dream offer.
We are ending the column «What hurts June» and today we collect for you all seven stories of switchers and IT and technology enthusiasts who told how they feel in the oversaturated «employer» market.
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Game UI/UX Designer who has been looking for a job for over a year
17-year-old Oleksandr Matkovskyi from Ivano-Frankivsk — Game UX/UI Designer — became the first to tell about his experience. Despite his young age, he has some experience in gamedev, but has been looking for a job for over a year. And his decision to develop in gamedev design was not spontaneous.
A switcher-designer who is raising two children on maternity leave
35-year-old Maryna Maksimenko is a UI/UX Designer and raises two children on maternity leave. And she is a switcher and changed analytical work to creative work. Marina talked about her experience of finding a job and entering IT, as well as what inspires her and red flags.
A web analyst who left economics and advertising to enter IT
36-year-old Kateryna Rul once studied to be an economist, as her parents wanted, then entered the world of advertising as Head of adtech department. But life turned around in such a way that from numbers, calculations and monetization, the girl returned to web analytics and since the beginning of the year has been trying to find a job in this field. Here are the stones she tripped over.
The girl who changed cybersecurity to Python, but received about 30 rejections in 5 months
20-year-old Sofia Dudiy was born in Varash, Rivne region, but now lives and studies in Kyiv. For the past 1.5 years, the girl has immersed herself in the Python language and is developing. But the search for a job in Sofia is still not complete. She said that it prevents her from getting the dream offer.
Military in the past and Junior iOS Developer currently
33-year-old Andrii Pikus is a veteran, since 2014 he fought in the ranks of the defenders of Ukraine. Began to touch IT while still in the service, and after demobilization in 2023 continues to develop as a Junior iOS Developer and look for work in this direction. Here are the difficulties he had to face and what Andriy considers the most important thing in his work.
Frontend developer switcher about how the war forced him to find himself
The year 2022 and a full-scale war prompted Andrii Yakovlev at the age of 34 to look for himself and all roads led him to IT and he became a Frontend developer. He told how many are already looking for work and what offers he received.
A designer-switcher who almost, but didn’t get a job at Diya
21-year-old Lyudmila Hayduk from Kyiv has been living in Poland for the third year. She decided to change the profession of «Water Supply Engineer», which her parents chose for her, to one that the girl herself likes. Lyudmila chose UI/UX Design. Lyudmila told what led her from engineering to design, what difficulties she encountered during the year-long job search and the three main cases when she herself refuses offers.
«If you were a woman, webcam offers would also be added.» An aspiring developer complained that he was getting irrelevant job offers. Aitivites claim that this phenomenon is quite frequent
«They want to find the most senior senior with an inferiority complex!». The developer shared the extremely inflated requirements of the employer for the Trainee/Junior position
