EESTEC Magazine Vol 34 2014/1 | Page 41

Career - Power Your Future BrainTrainer LC Izmir December 1st - December 7th 2013 Izmir, Turkey Text: Sila Boyaci, LC Izmir Photographs: LC Izmir Nowadays, if you want to stand out in engineering, you must be positive, energetic and able to lead whilst gaining required skills. Namely, working with various engineering discipline senables you to have the chance to make a difference. As Newton states “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Therefore, making a smarter career depends on great measure of of the one’s choices with greatear geness to work. In other words, to make headway, we have to be open-minded and let the diversity takeover, as in all fields of engineering and life other cultures has always been a driving force to bring innovation. With the afore mentioned reasons; between the dates of 1-7 December 2013 LC Izmir organized a workshop for the first time with the co-operation of ESTIEM LG Izmir-Deu: Braintrainer 2013. Izmir is a special place to gather up people that from all over the world in all seasons. Although the event took place in winter. All participants felt the fresh and calming weather of Izmir, the Pearl of Agean. The workshop was a planned project of Estiem and it was about getting to know the business life and experiencing different paths of a succesful career with professionally arranged technical trainings. This years participants had great opportunity to be informed about two different associations: ESTIEM and EESTEC. It was just the perfect chance for local EESTECers to develop their soft skills. They also have experienced the ESTIEM culture from ESTIEMers personally. Apparently, as EESTECers, we had so much to learn from each other. Former event provided us another point of view. Professional training sessions were held by the instructors of ESTIEM and EESTEC. All topics were about team-management, business communication, negotiation, case study solving and many more. Career Object of thi ́