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More than 20 companies offered Kyiv residents great job opportunities and priceless career advice at the Kyiv Post Employment Fair on April 23.

“I just enjoy sharing my experience with others,” Keith Rye, a tutor of ACCA professional financial qualification, told the Kyiv Post after addressing attendees of the biannual career event organized by the Kyiv Post.

Rye says appearing at such events is the right way of applying to people “who can learn from (one’s words) and then maybe even change the world in the future.”

Apart from Rye, five other experienced speakers took to the stage of the spring Kyiv Post Employment Fair that took place in Kyiv on April 23.

The speakers covered employment trends in Ukraine, where freelancing, volunteering and charity work are the new normal, and did their best to encourage listeners to move forward in their professions.

Vladyslav Kryveshko, the CEO of the international job search portal for freelancers Proffstore, giving career tips from the stage, emphasized the importance of self-management for all, and especially for “independent knights of the contemporary world.”

He said freelancers, who cannot plan their day properly, “will become recluses that perish in deadlines.”

A representative of PDFfiller (R), a developer of document management software, talks to the attendees of the Kyiv Post Employment Fair on April 23 in Kyiv. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)

Charity Foundation Happy Paw CEO Olga Spektor thinks such events can motivate those who are hesitating, give valuable tips and most of all – inspiration.

“Almost everyone is capable of great deeds,” Spektor told the Kyiv Post. “Some might attend a fair like this one and then realize that they can do something they doubted.”

In total, 21 companies from four to 11,550 employees in staff gave visitors the chance to apply for a number of positions, from auditor to sales manager, from programmer to chief executive officer.

The event brought companies and job seekers together face-to-face, as actually meeting with a possible future employer often yields much higher chances of gaining employment than just sending off a resume via email.

Besides, job seekers not only got chances to start a new career, but also valuable advice on how to succeed.

Pieter Kinds, the director of freight audit company ControlPay, told the Kyiv Post that the result of the event would eventually be visible through the number of qualified employees and the display of particular brands on the markets.

“Participating is not about an immediate outcome,” Kinds said. “It’s more about input for the future.”

Kyiv Post staff writer Denys Krasnikov can be reached at [email protected].