Valentine Korzh

Hotline consultant in Житомир, Украина

Valentine Korzh

Hotline consultant in Житомир, Украина

Born in Zhytomyr in no longer existing Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1990. At the age of 7 went to school which I finished over ten years with average grades. I also attended aircraft modelling section and won several competitions.

In 2007 entered International Christian University in Kiev majoring in marketing. By the end of freshman's summer accepted my first job as a forwarding agent in the Zhytomyr local bread producing company. During next two summers I took part in the Work and Travel program and visited US states of Virginia and Wisconsin. In Virginia I worked as a houseman in the hotel on the coast of Atlantic ocean while in Wisconsin I was doing a lifeguard job in the state's largest water park. Coming back home I completed my senior year and got a bachelor's degree.

After graduation I passed through the selection process at Kiev office of third largest audit firm in the world and started working as an audit staff. I helped different teams I was part of to form an objective opinion about clients' financial position. Moving up professionally I began to study accountancy qualification courses provided by the firm.

In May 2012 I was dismissed for poor communication skills not completing a trial period, being sure that I will become a partner in the long run. Moving back to Zhytomyr I continued to learn accounting on my own while trying to find a similar job at the same time.

After a long journey of job searching I finally found a job in March 2015. It was a role of a courier in my hometown, however the main task was to sell metallic-plastic windows to people in the streets. I was fired a week later for not meeting a sales target. I applied then to staffing agency and they placed me on different vacancies where after first couple of weeks employers expressed no wish to proceed with me further. Finally, after about 2 months of trying I was delivering newspaper to private and organizational buildings around the town as well as handing them to people in crowded places on weekends. After a summer I left on my own initiative, because off a promise to leave given to my acquaintance.

Afterwards I passed the selection process for management program at a high profile European bank in Kiev, however, tv news about some head of Ukrainian bank jumping out of the window on 9th floor made me change my mind and leave the program.

Then I was working as an operation staff at call center in my hometown for 6 months and

  • Work
    • Karavay Ltd.
  • Education
    • International Christian University