Career Day'24 was organised by the Alumni Office and Career Development Coordinatorship, bringing together our students and companies for job, internship and career opportunities.

The activities held at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Congress and Culture Centre were met with great interest by our students.

-Our students met with companies at the Career Fair where more than 30 companies participated.-

Our students came together with companies at the Career Fair, which lasted all day long and was attended by more than 30 companies. Our students and graduates visited the stands of the companies and received information about job and internship opportunities. Our students also had the opportunity to listen to the experiences of business people and company representatives with the ‘Career Summit’ panel organised within the scope of Career Day'24 activities and two separate sectoral meetings attended by TÜPRAG Company and JURA Hotels.

Rector Prof. Dr. Ekrem Savaş, Uşak Deputy Governor Burak Bozkurt Gürses, Alumni Office and Career Development Coordinator Lecturer Dr. Doğan Hatun visited the company stands in the foyer of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Congress and Culture Centre and thanked the companies for their participation.

-Panellists talked about their entrepreneurship experiences at the Career Summit and shared the secrets of their success-

In the panel titled ‘Career Summit’ held with an intense participation in the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Congress and Culture Center grand hall and moderated by Dr. Mustafa Yasin Aslan, Assistant Research Assistant, Alumni Office and Career Development Coordinator, panelists; Fesih Zeki Mert, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Van Horn Construction company, which is among the top ten companies in the construction sector in Canada, Ahmet Ulukan, founder of Windlar Yazılım Enerji Ltd. Şti. founder Ahmet Ulukan and Uğur Bekar, Sarar Blanket Factory Manager Uğur Bekar, a graduate of Uşak University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Textile Engineering, shared their experiences about what they encountered in their career steps and how they achieved success, and advised students on what they should do on the way to their goals.

In the opening speech of the panel, Rector Savaş expressed his happiness to bring students together with the sector once again at Career Day'24 and his satisfaction with the intense interest in the event.

Prof. Dr. Savaş stated that as Uşak University, they carry out studies and activities to ensure that our students are employed as soon as possible after graduation and to keep their ties with our university strong. Prof. Dr. Savaş said, ‘In this direction, we often bring our students together with our graduates and enable them to benefit from their experience. In addition, with such events, we find it very valuable for our students to learn the expectations of the sector and the companies they aim to work with in their business, internship and career processes and to spend their student period more efficiently in this direction. As a matter of fact, I see that we are getting the results of the Career Days, which we started 4 years ago and have now become a tradition. We have just visited the company stands. Among the companies and panelists participating in our Career Day this year, I saw that we have graduates who met with business life through career days, first as interns, then as employees in the companies they met here, and today they have established their own business and participated in this event as business people. This is a source of pride for us and a source of inspiration for our students here. I believe that the career day we organised this year will have positive results for many of our students here. I believe that the leaders, managers, entrepreneurs and business people of the future are in this hall right now. I would like to thank all the companies and public institutions that participated in our activities, the panelists who participated in the career summit and the company representatives who participated in the sector-student meeting for sharing their knowledge and experience with our students. 

At the end of the panel, Vice Rectors Prof. Dr. Kenan Taş and Prof. Dr. Lütfi Özav presented a plaque to the panelists in memory of the day.

-Our students participated in two separate industry meetings-

After the panel, two separate ‘Sector Meetings’ took place. Our students met with TÜPRAG representatives in Mustafa Kemal Paşa Amphitheatre and JURA Hotels representatives in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Congress and Culture Centre T6 hall.

The students expressed their satisfaction for participating in the all-day CAREER DAY'24 and stated that meeting business people from different sectors provided a great opportunity for them to shape their career goals and that it was very valuable for them to learn about internship and job opportunities. Stating that such events are also a great source of motivation for them, the students thanked everyone who organised the event.