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Kyiv, June 30, 2015

IMC launched student internship program 'Start with IMC'

In 2015 IMC launched the student internship program 'Start with IMC', aimed at students who study agronomy and agricultural engineering.
Best candidates for IMC's internship are selected in cooperation with Ukraine's leading agricultural and industrial education establishments (National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Poltava State Agrarian Academy, Sumy National Agrarian University, Kyiv and Odessa National Universities of Food Technologies).
This year, 20 agrarian students will be invited to join the internship at IMC. Internship will be held until the end of the harvesting campaign. Each trainee student will be assigned to leading agronomist or engineer on IMC's agricultural enterprises. Among participation in enterprises operations, trainees will also take part in educational events, which are aimed at professional growth of IMC's employees. IMC will cover living and meal expenses of trainees and will pay a monthly grant of 1000 UAH per trainee. Professional assessment of knowledge and potential of trainees will take place 3 months after the start of internship. In case of successful completion of the internship, IMC plans to accept trainees for full-time employment at the positions of agronomists and engineers before the start of sowing campaign 2016.
Longer term internship is provided for trainees in IMC's silo business segment. In 2015, 3 trainees are planned to be invited for 2-year internship, who will study the process of grain storage and refinement on IMC's silos from the basics. During the time of internship, trainees will work their way from drying machine operators to chief engineers and directors of silos. Successful candidates, who have completed the 2-year internship at IMC's silos, are assumed to be accepted for full-time positions of First Deputy Director of silo, with the further growth potential of becoming a Director of silo.

'IMC's team is currently rejuvenating. We grow our own employees and engage young specialists from outside of the company. For the young, smart and promising employees we provide the real opportunity to develop, implement professional knowledge and gain desirable experience in our company. 'Start with IMC' internship program helps us find talented, hard-working and promising young professionals, who are ready to make contribution to IMC's success and growth.

Our student internship program slogan is 'The start determines the future'. And we do believe so. We welcome the best students to start their professional growth at IMC', - said Alex Lissitsa, the CEO of IMC.

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