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This week’s guest on Conversations with Career Pioneers was Turkish Education Association and TED Ankara College General Director Sevinç Atabay. After having explained she was diagnosed with ADD when she was a child, Mrs Atabay emphasized the importance of rendering the classes interesting and appealing so as to maintain the motivation and the concentration of the students.

Second guest of this week’s Conversations with Career Pioneers was Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Murat Salim Esenli. Mr Esenli expressed his contentment of being present at the premises of TED years after his graduation and began his conversation with a quotation from Confucius: “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Then Mr Esenli went on explaining how he shaped his own career.

The guest of the week of Conversations with Career Pioneers is the CEO of GAMA, Hakan Özman. Mr Özman after having introduced himself, talked about his company’s ongoing national and international operations. He mentioned to students that mid-twenties pass with self-discovery, that they will start taking on responsibilities and grow. Mr Özman recommended the students to find out their personal areas of interest and to read a lot in order to expand their perspectives.

The second guest of December on Conversations with Career Pioneers was ETİ Group’s Executive President Hakan Polatoğlu. After having introduced himself, Mr Polatoğlu initiated his conversation by commemorating Atatürk and the Republic as an example of having a dream, realizing it and thus changing the destiny of a society.

The second guest of this week’s conversations with Career Pioneers is the General Director of Qualcomm Turkey, Barış Ruacan. Mr Ruacan, initiating his speech by introducing himself explained that he studied civil engineering, obtained his MBA in America and that he benefited a lot from his engineering education in his professional life. Mr Ruacan began his career in the Silicon Valley then realising that the mobile phone sector offers appealing opportunities he began working for Nokia and came back to Turkey to establish the Turkey branch of the firm.

We made an innovation on this week’s Career Pioneers Conversations and paid a visit to Ortadoğu Rulman Industry and Trade Inc.’s factory in Polatlı upon the kind invitation of our career pioneer Ahmet Aslan. We had a tour around the factory in groups and found out about the production chain of ball bearing. After the visit we were hosted by Ahmet Aslan, the CEO of the factory and the General Director Dr. Feridun Özhan gave a briefing to our future engineers. Mr. Özhan laid stress on the importance of career planning according to one’s own competencies and specialisation.

The first guest of November’s Career Pioneers conversations was the Vice Chairman of Güven Hospital Banu Küçükel. Mrs. Küçükel initiated her speech by stressing the importance of the day (10th of November) and commemorated Mustafa Kemal Atatürk then asked students questions about their career preferences.

This week’s guest on Career Pioneers Conversations was Executive President of Beğendik and Turkey General Director of Real, Hacı Duran Beğendik. After graduating from TED Kayseri, Hacı Duran Beğendik went to America to complete his undergraduate education. On his return, he started working at Beğendik Incorporation, however working in the family business didn’t met his expectations, so he left the company on 2007 and started his own business in the food sector with a limited capital.

Conversations with Turkey's Career Pioneers – ALİ OSMAN ÖZTÜRK

The second guest of this week’s Conversations with Turkey’s Career Pioneers was Mr. Ali Osman Öztürk, founder of A Design & Architecture. Mr. Öztürk started his talk by introducing himself. He told that he loved his profession and he would do the same if he were born again. He had a chance to meet many people and traveled a lot owing to this profession and he enjoyed it much.