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On August 4, the third STARt Yourself 2020 internship program for students began. Despite the quarantine, 29 interns started working in different divisions of the company.

Zoya Dronshkevich, director of corporate strategy at Kyivstar, tells why Ukraine is not ready for 5G yet, how businesses can move to the cloud and how subscribers behave during the quarantine.

The jury of the Telecom Ukraine 2020 awarded Kyivstar a victory in the “Company of the Year” nomination in mobile communications, as well as awards in several other nominations.

Why is “looking for a girl from 20 to 40 years old” a losing strategy for the company's development? Work.ua together with Kyivstar listened and talked about diversity at the webinar “Win-win: What benefits do the company and its employees get from the principle of diversity”.

This year Kyivstar became the leader in several nominations of “TOP 100. Ratings of the largest”. The company took first place in “The best employer” nomination, and Oksana Oleynik, HR and organization development director, was recognized as one of the top three HR-managers in Ukraine.

63 new mentors from headquarters and regional offices took part in the first online quest, where they “virtually” returned to the office, overcame a lot of obstacles and found their mentees!

This autumn, Kyivstar will conduct a paid internship for people over 30 for the second time. It was created for those who burned out in their profession and want to start something new, as well as those who have not worked for a long time.

Kyivstar launches Kyivstar Returnship 2020, an internship for those who have had a career break for more than 3 years, and those who have decided to radically change their profession and start anew. Often such people are not welcome to hire because of different stereotypes.

“Focus” magazine traditionally ranked the best top managers in 13 sectors of the Ukrainian economy. Three winners were chosen in each industry, united by the ability to evolve under challenging conditions.

Kyivstar is a dynamic company, a complex structure, with so many processes that even experienced workers sometimes struggle to track all the events. It is great when there is someone who can give an answer to any question or can help to solve your problem. That is why we launched the Buddy program in Kyivstar.

Like the whole world, our country is going through difficult, turbulent times. And, of course, during a crisis, communication services become especially important for every person.

Ukrainian ІТ and product field is constantly growing and evolving. Kyivstar decided to cultivate it inside the company.

From the first day of the quarantine, we at Kyivstar made everything possible to ensure that the working conditions of our employees who provide continuous communication are as safe as possible.

Kyivstar is working to create the most comfortable working conditions, is continuously updating and looking for new ways to improve work processes.

According to the results of 2019, Kyivstar entered the TOP 25 of the best employers for talents under the age of 25 in the rating of the STUD-POINT youth career development center.

Life is unpredictable and sometimes even the best experts are forced to pause their career. Among common reasons are taking care of a child or another close person, health condition, unsuccessful attempts to migrate or start a professional way in the new sphere, inability to find a job due to age discrimination.

"We are looking for talents, not just employees!" — this is the one of the critical direction of the Kyivstar headhunting strategy. Besides, we try to impart our values ​​to the candidates at the selection stage.

Within the internship program StartYourSelf we::

• considered 300 applications of candidates
• conducted 3 competitive stages for applicants
• organized a new format of the selection for the company called assessment
• tested future interns on the performance and motivation

At the last 6-hours step 35 students have been developing the concept of an ideal school that would meet modern market demands, and 15 managers of functions were choosing the best business decision.

All of us like our Selfies, so do recruiters and newly hired colleagues in Kyivstar!!!

To welcome the candidates and give them an awesome onboarding experience, we have started taking cool selfies of the new hires with the HR-team, recruiter, and, hiring managers. We call it the Recruiter Selfie.

Look at the results below… More to come.

The Future of Unia is a two-month business game whose goal is to develop team management skills based on the concept of Management 3.0. The project starts and ends with face-to-face events, and between them - 6 weeks of playing online. This is an innovative format of education, because there are no analogues of the project not only in Ukraine, but also in other countries.

Kids of our employees came to visit our offices and learned a lot of new. It was FUN!