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 Who plans your career? Is it you? Your family? Your teacher?  When do you start planning your career? Is it when you are a high school student or a college student? When does it end? When you are retired? We found answers for those questions in the second week of Yetkin Gençler . Let's look at those answers together! Career planning is an ongoing and never-ending process which is developing and changing over time. It starts at a very young age, when you start to think about your future in your childhood. So, you start planning your career when you are a school-age child. Yes, it's YOU planning it. Nobody else can plan it for you but they can only guide or assist you during the process. You keep planning it until you keep contributing to the society. The keys to career planning are: - your assets (competencies, knowledge, experience, network) - your aspirations (vision, goals) - market realities (what will the companies pay you for) You should be aware of your strengths and we

  Hi everybody! I have some great news. I have joined the Product Marketing internship program in RadicalX . I will  acquire the skills, mindset, and network to be a high-impact team member at innovative companies. In this program, I will be working in an interdisciplinary tech team with peers from more than 125 countries.  Our marketing team, Advertax, is responsible for launching the Group Virtual Internships. Our mission as marketers and designers is to develop a marketing strategy to increase the popularity of the RadicalX internship programs, raise brand awareness and increase web traffic.   Our deliverables for the first week are doing market research and building marketing strategies. I will share some of my notes from learning resources that helped me learn about market research and strategies. How to do market research The business that best understand their customer wins. You have to understand their wants needs and goals. Amazon : shows what your customers think and buy. Yo

 Hello friends! Today, I'll be sharing my notes on Receiving and Giving feedback from an article written by Prof. Dr. Acar Baltaş. The article starts with a question: "Can the personality be changed within time?" I thought it would be. However, Baltaş says it's the actions that are changing, not the personality coming with genetics. Some factors causing a change in our actions are: - time - traumas -psychotherapy - feedback Feedback plays a crucial role for the personal growth. We should get the maximum benefits from feedbacks but there are some points that should be taken into consideration while giving and receiving it. There is a misconception of that one with more experience or at an older age knows better. It is a huge misconception because the experience might be negative; repeated mistakes are also accepted as an experience. We should receive feedback from people regardless of their age and experience. Everyone has a different point of view.  There is another i

 Hello folks! We had the second session about Learning How to Learn, Time Management and Note-taking skills in the YetGen Orientation Program with Dear Murat Yalnızoğlu.  We identified the ways to gaining a competence, which are motivation, information (background knowledge) and intelligence. One of the key competences for the 21st century is effective communication. In order to be an effective communicator; we have to listen actively, ask proper questions, tell a story, explain solutions, have good presentation skills, give and receive feedback. Later on, we distinguished the differences between competence and intelligence.  While competences can be acquired and improved at any age, intelligences are innate cognitive and mental capacity. Here is a chart of multiple intelligences: People are born with all the multiple intelligences; yet, while some are improved, some are rasped according to their life experiences.  As stated before, motivation is the key in order to gain a competence.

 Hi there! I am back again with some exciting news. I have joined MZV-MEF  Yetkin Gençler  (YetGen) 21st Century Training Program as a trainee. YetGen is an extensive 14-week 21st Century Skills Training Program which includes trainings like Leadership, Effective Presentation Skills and Teamwork, Content Writing, Career Planning, Excel, Digital/Information Literacy, Algorithmic Thinking, Sustainability and Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The training was founded by Prof. Dr. Erhan Erkut. We have already had the first session yesterday. I will be sharing my notes and my whole learning journey with you. Firstly, we focused on the concept of the ' Quality Education ' with our trainer Erhan Erkut. The UN describes the goal of Quality Education as ensuring “inclusive and equitable quality education and [promoting] lifelong learning. Let's have look at whether this is the case in Turkey :) The dropout rate is quite high in Turkey and the number of unemployed graduates inc

     Hello dears! How have you been? I have great news for you. We had the last presentation meeting with all the groups and our instructors. As you know, I have been working at my dear instructor Melda YILMAZ's PhD research project, 21st century Skills Training and Project Based Learning , for 11 weeks. After our intensive 6-week theory-based training program, we had a 5-week practice and product creation section. In the first section, we worked on various skills and topics such as global language, critical thinking skills, digital literacy skills, information literacy skills and in the second section, we designed a website as a product. You can learn about the whole process by reading my previous blog posts. Today, I will briefly explain our website, also mention about my friends' products and I'd like to talk about my overall opinions about the program.     We created our website on ' English As a Global Language and Its Pedagogical Implications ' topic by using

     Hi everybody! Hope you're all doing well. This is the last week of our project. We'll present our websites next week and happily, we are almost done with creating our content for the website.         We, the team ELT-Z (this is how we call ourselves hahaha), had several meetings with my teammates this week. We reviewed our research papers one last time and we figured out creating our conclusion and further suggestions part by using multimedia tools. We had a meeting which lasted an hour, we talked about the conclusions of our papers and suggested some ideas for our further recommendations. We love to share ideas since we get very creative ideas while discussing. Then, we divided the roles again: Bilge and Zeynep Ahsen were supposed to gather all the conclusions and create a video on Animoto  and share it on Youtube. As the website doesn't allow to share videos, we're going to share the link. Meanwhile, Öken and I were supposed to create further suggestions for our