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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.

Ms. Ayfer Yılmaz was this week’s second guest of our “Conversations with Turkey's Career Pioneers”. Ms. Yılmaz started her conversation by telling about her choice of university education and emphasized the fact that it is not us who decide about our careers but rather, an examination.

The first guest of TED career pioneers talks this year was former Ambassador Namık Tan. Mr. Tan was here for a presentation of his profession. He started his words with mentioning how meaningful and sentimental it was to be in these buildings again. Mr. Tan said that as he made a living by talking, he liked to talk very much. He mentioned that it was essential to have differences, a sense of uniqueness between individuals not only in personal relations but also in relations at states level.

This week’s guest on our Career Pioneers Talk was 

This week’s guest on our Career Pioneers Talk was Enis Öncüoğlu, the owner of Öncüoğlu + ACP Mimarlık. Mr. Öncüoğlu, who started his talk by introducing himself, said that together with his wife, brother and partner, they have transformed the company, established by his father 25 years ago, into an architectural firm offering international project services and thus differentiating itself from others in the sector.

The second guest on our Career Pioneers Talk this week was Dr. Burak Erdenir, Deputy Secretary General for EU Affairs. Mr. Erdenir, who started his talk by introducing himself, first listed the schools he graduated from; TED Ankara College, METU Department of Food Engineering, MBA Georgetown University, MPA (Public Administration) Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. He stated that he intended to go into the public sector right from the start and thus planned his education accordingly. Mr.