“I left, quite aware that I was leaving my life behind — my hopes, my plans,” Mariia Savchuk said. \u0022I knew I was leaving my country for a long period.\u0022
The Kyiv native has a masters in economics and speaks English, French and Italian in addition to Ukrainian and Russian. Early in her career, she worked as an interpreter with an agency that helped foreign couples with adoptions in Ukraine and, before entering journalism full-time in 2012, she’d freelanced as a translator, copywriter and social marketing manager, among other things.Article content
Guerru reached out to Savchuk through the Facebook group and they had two video calls. After the first, Savchuk felt she had not performed well. “I was feeling more than a refugee than a professional looking for a job,” she recalled.Still, Guerru offered her an administrative job. Savchuk liked that the company wanted to help Ukraine.
On June 6, Savchuk started work as an office clerk at Duchesnay and “rapidly, her skills showed through,” Guerru said. Soon she was named senior communications adviser.
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