The CNC course program, planned by the Employment Office of the OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Directorate as part of the Vocational Training Course, has begun.
Following interviews and evaluations with industrialists, 15 trainees were accepted into the program. They will receive one day of theoretical training at school and four days of practical training at businesses per week, and will be employed after graduation. During the six-month training period, students will receive 50% of the minimum wage, and their general health insurance expenses will be covered by the Ministry of National Education.
The apron-wearing ceremony at Yenimahalle Şehit Mehmet Şengül Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School was attended by OSTİM Board Chairman Orhan Aydın, Yenimahalle District National Education Director Soydan Tevfik Karahan, OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Board Member Behzat Zeydan, OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Regional Manager Adem Arıcı, OSTİM External Relations Coordinator Hamza Akca, Yenimahalle Şehit Mehmet Şengül Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Principal Bayram Arslanoğlu, and the trainees.
The gateway to entrepreneurship
OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Manager Adem Arıcı noted that they have started a very good vocational training program. Arıcı said, “We will continue our vocational training programs. We aim to meet the need for qualified personnel of the companies in our region with these programs and quick solutions.”
Arıcı, noting that the companies the trainees were matched with also became entrepreneurs through similar processes, said: “I believe many of you will become entrepreneurs, business people, and producers. We will be in constant communication with you throughout the program. In our future programs, we will also invite today's trainees to share their success stories.”
Vocational training is the shortest path to production and employment.
Yenimahalle District National Education Director Soydan Tevfik Karahan stated that vocational high schools and vocational training centers are the shortest path to production and employment.
Karahan stated that the pandemic highlighted the importance of production and industry, and consequently vocational high schools and vocational training centers, for the country. Thanking the OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Board of Directors, the Regional Directorate, and the school administration, Karahan said, “As Yenimahalle, we are among the top in Turkey in terms of the number of vocational training centers and students. Our student number increased from 1,700 to 3,700 in just one month.”
“The program is in line with our Ahi values”
OSTİM Board Chairman Orhan Aydın emphasized that the trainees were embarking on a very important endeavor. Describing production as an act of worship, Aydın stated, “I believe that meeting one's own needs through work and production is an act of worship. The pleasure derived from working and producing cannot be obtained from anything else.”
Aydın, explaining the importance that developed countries place on vocational education, pointed out that these countries derived the foundation of their vocational education model from the Ahi tradition (a historical Turkish guild system).
Highlighting the coexistence of contradictions such as employment and unemployment in the field, the President of OSTİM stated, “Companies are looking for employees, and the unemployed are looking for jobs. This gap has arisen from a lack of vocational skills. That's why we consider this project very important. There is a need here. Companies want personnel to employ, and people are looking for jobs to work. It's not enough to just train employees; we also need to train employers.”
Congratulating the trainees, Orhan Aydın stated: “I believe you are doing a very good job. All our trainees can contact us constantly. Let's benefit you, our companies, and our country. This program is in line with our Ahi values. If we do this with this intention, it is an act of worship.”
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