EMLT Bulletin 03 (May) - EN

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MAY, 2015

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SO C ME CA VO H HO O N C IS OS NE AT O E W IO N N ?

CA N S O M E O N E C H OOS E HI S O W N V O C AT ION ?

“When I was y oung w h e n c h o o s i n g y o u r vo cati o n, t her e wer e n o s u c h mu l ti p l e exa mi nat ions ! What w a s th e p u rp o s e ; Some one could choo s e h i s o w n v o c a ti o n .”

Last month with our adventure on EMLT, we discussed with youth and asked about building their career path. EMLT Project aims to reveal the possibilities of building career for graduate students, from universities to planning career in business world. Besides, it aims to improve a carrier proposal depending on the needs by communicating with both sides.

For this purpose, to improve some strategies of career we had a sincere interview with the most authorized person of the private sector ‘The President of Eskisehir Industry Chamber’. The outcomes of this interview are about both significant experiences and very important advices. These experiences are explaining why the youth having difficulties while choosing their vocation, in addition to highlighting how strategic it is to choose your own vocation both for sector and country. Before going in details about this interview, we would like to thank honorable Savaş Özaydemir for sparing his time and sharing his precious thoughts with us.

First question is; do you think the choices have

changed while people decide on their career and vocation?

Savaş Özaydemir; ’’ When I was young, the people around Turkey weren’t taking any exams while their choosing their vocation. We were just applying to a university, taking the exam and then the process went on like this. For example I had 6 exams till I chose my vocation! The main reason for this process was to let the young to choose his vocation by his own when he was in his teen ages. At those times, People’s interests and basic occupational deficits in the country were basic profession of career choice. The young just need their family’s guidance for making the right career choice. The most important achievement for them is working in the place where they dreamt about. But nowadays, you can see that the system that they have to deal with is not sufficient enough for them to build their career path.

So the result is, they choose the school where their exam results leading.

How can we

enable the

university-industry cooperation?

Universities should educate the youth foreseeing sectoral needs for labor force about 8-10 years ahead, so this means that universities and industry need to be in touch with each other. The professors in university and industrialists should share their ideas with each other and also cooperate. This will make the youth be more aware about their career. That is, they will see where and in which conditions they can work relevant to the vocation they choose while they are still being educated. For instance; in Germany the industry declares that they need 300.000 people for software, as a result of this call people are educated in this field to avoid any deficit. This is hot, it should be in Turkey. The state and the industry should act together while stating the education policy. This education policy needs to cover even the primary school!

How the firms want the graduates to be? Why the right vocation and the person cannot match?

As soon as when the youth graduate, they want to work with a high wage or to work for government with a lower wage in public sector. Thereby, to be able to have a guaranteed vocation they ignore their skills. On the other hand, the firms may prefer the youth with higher awareness, whose career plans are already shaped and even more who had an internship experience in his own field.

It is more important for the youth to have awareness about their skills and to rotate their self-improvement to their career, rather than graduating with a high grade-point. Another problem is the youth should be more ‘mobile’.

Because they may prefer to work in different business areas just to stay in where they live, not to leave their family or the big cities. Actually this is an obstacle for them to evaluate various chances fitting their skills. In this case, the problem with the education-job mismatch occurs. The most important problem in labor market is ‘not having a vocation’.

This problem causes especially the youth to involve to the business world without any experience. The universities should develop the graduates to reveal what kind of expectations the industries and sector have, besides analyzing the condition in which the graduates are. The universities, for sure, should know or follow about the difficulties that graduates have while being employed or the stages that graduates are passing. Mutually, the universities and the industry should stay in touch about the industries expectations and cooperation from universities and the other way around. This situation will reflect on the quality of graduates.

Do you think that Educating Human Resources is important for the Elimination of Education-Business Gap? This is really important! I think EMLT LMS will educate the HR cooperating with industry to choose the right person for the right job.

After having such a pericous interview with Savas Özaydemir, we decided to carry on with industrialist to our journey. We interviewed with Eren Gönenli, the boarding member of Anot Electric and Otto Bauer, Ceo of Festo Global. We are going to share all details in the next bulletins including more industrialists.

Here you can also find the infographics made up from a survey done with the youth. You can also see what the youth expect fort he work life and how it is actually☺.

Graduates: Expectations vs Reality 66% of the students are considered job availability before choosing field of study and 78% of the graduates who participated to the questionnaire are working full time in their chosen field. It is observed that 64% of the students don’t believe their education prepared them well enough for business world; indeed 82% of the graduates felt their education didn’t prepared them well. Also, it is observed that most of the students are expecting to earn more than 14,400 TL a year; on the other hand it looks like this expectation came true relatively to the others.

When the general conclusion taken into account, one can’t claim that the expectations of the students came true as desired after graduation. These findings imply that those expectations of students didn’t become true when they had a vocation. With this questionnaire, how the expectations of the students and the realities after graduation and having a vocation are corresponding each other.

Graduated YES

Student

NO

YES

NO

%78,3 %21,7

%66,1 %33,9

Did you consider job availability before choosing field of study?

Did you feel your education prepared you well fort he work life?

%26,1 %82,6

%37,3 %64,4

Do you believe your education prepare you well for the work life?

Did you convert internship or apprenticeship into a job?

%17,4 %73,9

%35,6 %62,7

Have you completed an internship or apprenticeship?

%79,7 %20,3

Do you expect to earn more than 14.400 ¨ a year ?

Are you working full time in your chosen field?

Do you earn 14.400 ¨ or more in a year?

%60,9 %39,1

Are you working in a full time job?

%78,3 %21,7

%74,6 %25,4

Do you expect to find full time work?

%43,5 %56,5

%67,8 %32,2

Do you expect your first employer to provide formal training for you?

Did you receive training from your first employer?

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Here is valuable tips for your career!!

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Are you able to prepare your CV that reflects your skills and expalining yourself properly?

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Can you transfer your skills and interests to whom evaluate you in a good and effective way ?

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The point is how much you improve yourself but not having 4,00 degree.. are you aware of this!

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Do you know being the member of a team and taking part in the social responsibilities projects will bring you good opportunities in your career?

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Having an internship experince, taking part in the projects and attending foreign education programmes will make you become more attractive employee.

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Are you aware of the fact that your being sensitive about the things going on around you , social,political,,etc will help you build your on career path! Have a currrent diary and carry on!

As EMLT Project Team, we carry on our studies to decrease the education-job mismatch gap.

Our team is getting bigger day by day :) Why don’t you become a member of our team and share all your suggestions and experiences that you have during the job finding process?

This will make us more successfull and also you to join our adventure!!

Keep in touch and wait for the next bulletin full with lots of usefull topics and hints!

EMLT Project Team

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