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Careerist is a US-based career accelerator that is designed to help students learn the skills needed to land a tech job. Careerist uses Job Application Service (JAS), a mentoring system, and a system of job-interview preparation to help graduates find a job. In 2021, Careerist became a participant in Y Combinator, the American technology startup and business accelerator. There are more than 270 employees at Careerist working in thirty-seven different countries, including the US, Russia, Europe, Ukraine, Belarus, the Philippines, and Mexico.

History
Careerist (previously called JobEasy) was created in April 2019 by three co-founders: Ivan Tsybaev, Max Glubochansky, and Max Gusakov.

In February 2021, JobEasy re-branded to Careerist. Embedded in the Careerist logo is a ladder, which symbolizes sustainable professional growth. This logo is used on the Careerist website and throughout their courses.

Founders
The company's founders, Ivan Tsybaev, Max Glubochansky, and Max Gusakov, are specialists in the IT industry.

Ivan Tsybaev
Ivan Tsybaev is the CEO and cofounder of Careerist. Ivan is a serial entrepreneur who, in 2013 founded the startup - Trucker Path, the trucker app in the US. Trucker Path is used by about 80 percent of truckers in the US and has received over $20 million in investment to date.

Tsybaev was noticed by the nonprofit American Business Association of Russian-Speaking Professionals (AmBAR) and was invited to become Vice President of PR.

In 2019, Ivan, Max Glubochansky and Max Gusakov created JobEasy, a career accelerator that was later renamed Careerist.

Max Glubochansky
Max Glubochansky is the cofounder and Head of Business at Careerist. A Quality Assurance specialist who worked for Apple, Intel, and other Silicon Valley companies.

Max finished his BA in Business in Israel, obtained a Green Card, and moved to the US, where he decided to take up a career in QA. He was working for Apple in QA when he first thought about setting up the bootcamp. The idea of Careerist was born when Max began to help his friends and acquaintances break into the IT field. He also helped many of them find work in top companies like Apple, Intel, Google, and Facebook over the years.

Max Gusakov
Max Gusakov is the СTO and cofounder of Careerist, a programmer by education. In 2015, Max joined the Trucker Path team, where he took an active part from the very beginning of the company through to the complete transfer of the company during the sale to Renren.

Graduates
Since 2019, over 3,500 students have graduated from Сareerist programs. They are working in companies such as Visa, Uber, Apple, Facebook, Intel, and Samsung. Careerist works with students in Manual QA, Automation QA, Tech Sales, or System Engineering programs. It also offers a program to improve students’ careers called CareerUp.

Career Paths
As of 2021, Careerist courses include Software Quality Assurance (Manual QA and Automation QA), Systems Engineering, Tech Sales, and CareerUp.

Software Quality Assurance Career Bundle (Manual QA and Automation QA)
The Manual QA course includes a general career and job-market overview; quality assurance (QA) and manual testing basics; information on industry-specific tools for manual testing; types of testing and bugs; the software development life cycle; the bug life cycle; the Jira bug-tracking system; and waterfall, Agile, and Scrum project-management techniques.

The Automation QA course includes Automation QA Foundation; environment setup; GitHub; common WebDriver commands and locators; behavior and algorithm fundamentals; practice writing test cases; number and string algorithms; resume preparation; and Selenium interview questions.

Systems Engineering
The Systems Engineering course covers information about Linux, files, users and security, major system components, user and software management, booting and services, storage and networking, observability, advanced shell use, monitoring, and preparing for the job market. Tech Sales Career Bundle The Tech Sales Career bundle consists of three parts: Sales Training, which covers everything that students need to know to sell technology products to customers; the Sales Engineer course, which helps students become product experts and use product knowledge to help CEOs and CTOs find solutions; and the Solutions Architect course, which trains students to become specialists who can evaluate the needs of a company and design an IT plan that will help them reach their goals.

CareerUp
The CareerUp program helps students to advance their careers, receive higher salaries, and gain more opportunities in top companies. CareerUp includes drawing up a personalized program to improve and practice hard skills, learning advanced management skills, and studying and solving business cases of top IT companies. The program also helps students improve their resumes and LinkedIn profiles, and it provides mentorship, personal coaching, and mock job interviews.

Education process
Students usually meet with their instructors 5 times a week for interactive and informative sessions via Learning Management System (LMS) online. Then they are matched with a mentor 1:1, with daily homework and practice.

After sessions are over students have a possibility to get the internship where they gain real-world experience.

Mentoring
The team of seventeen mentors at Careerist supervises students to ensure they get a tech job as soon as possible. After an initial phone call with each student, Careerist pairs the student with the right type of mentor. Mentors' daily tasks involve calling students to discuss their progress, helping them prepare for interviews, looking at ways of improving their interview techniques, and working on their motivation. Other tasks include running mock interviews, checking how mentees answer interview questions, and double-checking resumes and LinkedIn profiles. Mentors constantly keep in touch with their students via emails and LinkedIn.

Job Application Service
Job Application Service (JAS) is Careerist’s special software that can apply for up to four times as many job openings on students’ behalf than they could on their own.

Without JAS, the average job search takes three-to-four months and requires seekers to apply to at least twenty openings per day. Submitting this many applications can take up to two-to-three hours per day of students’ time. JAS will get students multiple job offers faster and help them become more skilled at negotiating a higher salary with a future employer.

Careerist Acceleration program
The Careerist Acceleration program provides help to improve skills of mid- and senior-level IT specialists with the goal of raising salaries, getting promotions, and fostering career growth. The program is arranged individually according to the client’s needs and skills.

The program also helps IT professionals who are willing to relocate to the US.