I started at Department of International Trade and Finance with 100% scholarship in 2003 and graduated in 2007 with High Honors. The most important thing the University helped me with was to equip me with presentation skills by improving my analytical skills. When I graduated, I prepared for inspectorship exams of the banks in the light of theoretical information I learned, and passed the first exam I took. I started my career as Assistant Inspector at Turkish Economy Bank. At the end of my fourth year I transferred to Odeabank’s Inspection Committee as an Inspector, and felt very proud to be part of a bank that was established in Turkey 13 years later. After I started working at Odeabank, I received my MBA at Bahçeşehir University. I benefited a lot from the quality of undergraduate education I received, during both my graduate studies and work life. Currently, I am in my 15th year in this sector and I work as Manager of Monitoring Non-Performing Loans and Operations.
Büşra Kırmızıoğlu
2009 - Public Relations and Advertising Graduate
Immediately after graduating with honors in 2009, I completed my academic education in 2011, which I continued at a postgraduate degree in Istanbul. I gained professional experience for 3 years in different advertising and PR agencies in Istanbul. As a result of my application to the lecturing staff opened by YOK in the Rectorate of Pamukkale University in 2017, I was entitled to work as a Public Relations Specialist in this institution. I have been working as the Director of Press and Public Relations since 2019 at the institution where I am still working. Since the very beginning of my career, the most important fact that I learned during my education at Izmir University of Economics and which sheds light on me is the fact that as long as the information was conveyed to people with a correct communication method, that information provided a benefit beyond the meaning acknowledged by the next generation.
Ali Rıza Tunçer
2018 - Cinema and Digital Media Graduate
Ayşegül Palamutcu
2015 - Department of Media and Communications Graduate
“The class newspaper we published in elementary school and the small plays I wrote and staged were my first steps toward an interest in the world of communication. This curiosity gradually turned into a passion and led me to the Department of Media and Communication at Izmir University of Economics. Thanks to the strong academic staff and modern studio facilities, my university years became one of the most valuable periods that shaped my career.
Egemen Akın
2009 - Industrial Systems Engineering Graduate
I started my education at Izmir University of Economics in 2005 as one of the first students at Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (now Department of Industrial Engineering). Of course I had doubts about choosing a new department of a relatively young university, but, when I was convinced that the University offered a high quality education system and teaching staff based on the needs of the region and the country, my worries were replaced by a different excitement. In addition to being raised by internationally recognized academics during my 4 year undergraduate education, it was also rewarding to see our department maturing and improving along with us and being a part of it has always been a point where I felt the advantage.
Özgü Yavuz
2019 - Psychology Graduate
I graduated from Izmir University of Economics Psychology-Sociology double major programs with honor student degrees. After graduating from the Department of Sociology in 2018, I started to work as a student assistant at the Department of Psychology at Izmir University of Economics until I graduated in 2019.
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Büşra Kırmızıoğlu |
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Ali Rıza Tunçer |
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Ayşegül Palamutcu |
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Egemen Akın |
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Özgü Yavuz |
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