Elcab Kablo's Industry-School Cooperation and Qualified Intermediate Staff Training Project

Nejdet Tıskaoğlu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Elcab Kablo, who has signed an effective project that will set an example for the solution of the problem of qualified intermediate staff trained in Turkey, has started to train qualified intermediate staff of the future within the scope of Industry - School cooperation by bringing vocational high school students who are far away from the practical applications and industrial experience of business life to the industry despite receiving theoretical knowledge in their schools.

Within the scope of the project, a protocol was signed in cooperation with the vocational department of Arnavutköy Mehmet Akif Ersoy Multi-Program Anatolian High School.

Within the scope of the protocol, Mehmet Akif Ersoy Anatolian Vocational High School students, who received orientation training at the Elcab Cable factory, continue their studies in the workshops established in their own schools and their work is supported by Elcab cable foremen and chiefs. With these studies, students provide cash input to the working capital of their schools and produce economic benefits. Students who successfully graduate from their school within the scope of the job guaranteed project will contribute to the country's economy by starting to work at Elcab Kablo as a trained intermediate staff.

Elcab Kablo Chairman Nejdet Tıskaoğlu carried the similar project beyond the borders of Turkey. By doing a similar project with the Phoenix Technical Secondary School in South Africa, where the second factory is located, Tıskaoğlu has presented an exemplary model to South African industrialists who have a problem with qualified intermediate staff.

Tıskaoğlu explained that they will contribute to the future of our country to the training of young engineers with advanced infrastructure and practice by implementing the model he called my dream 20 years ago in the universities with relevant departments.

Tıskaoğlu stated that they started production in Küçükköy in 1999, moved to their factories in Arnavutköy in 2009 and produced with 200 personnel, and in 2018 they produced with 300 qualified personnel, including 100 in their second factories established in South Africa.

Tıskaoğlu stated that they are the leader of the white goods sector in the production of cable grouping and silicone oven door gaskets. "We owe this success to meeting our goals with our business discipline, especially since the establishment of our factory, employing the right team, the right staff and qualified intermediate staff," he said, recommending that we should protect our project and multiply the examples of other industrialists and schools for the success of industrialists and the solution of Turkey's qualified intermediate staff problems.

Stating that Turkey, which is located at the transition point of Asia and Europe with the new Silk Road project, will attract more global investors in the near future and that the problem of qualified intermediate staff will grow in this period when investments will increase even more, Tıskaoğlu emphasized that it is a vital issue for our economy to train qualified intermediate staff with industry-school cooperation.  

Tıskaoğlu stated that as a businessman who has invested in South Africa, they can share their experiences there with Turkish businesspeople who want to invest in the region. He also invited business people to invest in the region.

Arnavutköy District Governor Ahmet Odabaş, who visited Mehmet Akif Ersoy Multi-Program Anatolian High School and the workshop class established by Elkab Kablo at the school, stated that a large part of the people turned to the service sector and that the employment deficit in the industrial sector was higher, so vocational high schools were a hometown issue and they would make these schools more attractive.

Odabaş, who received information about their cooperation from Elkab Kablo General Manager Rasim Göktepe and School Director Halis Marangoz within the scope of Industry-School cooperation, said that vocational high schools have become attractive within the scope of industry-school cooperation and we will further increase cooperation with industrialists.

Stating that they will increase the departments needed by industrialists by opening them in vocational high schools in the district, Odabaş congratulated the students, their families and industrialists who cooperate with the schools. Halis Marangoz, Principal of Arnavutköy Mehmet Akif Ersoy Multi-Program Anatolian High School, stated that they have started a project similar to the ahilik system developed by developed countries in their schools with the cooperation of Elcab Kablo, and within the scope of the job guaranteed project, we guarantee the future of our young people. Stating that all developed countries have solved the problem of qualified intermediate staff with vocational high schools, Carpenter stated that they have started to break the negative perception of vocational high schools in our country by signing an exemplary project.

Elcab Kablo General Manager Rasim Göktepe stated that they examined the industrial companies in Europe in their sectors and that they achieved success with school-industry cooperation.

Stating that they serve many well-known brands, including Koç group brands Arçelik and Beko, with cable grouping and silicone oven door gasket production, Göktepe emphasized the importance of qualified intermediate elements for quality production.

The students of Arnavutköy Mehmet Akif Ersoy Anatolian Vocational High School, who met with the industry within the scope of the project, are eagerly waiting to graduate as soon as possible and to start working at Elcab kablo with their job-guaranteed professions.

Arnavutköy Mehmet Akif Ersoy Multi-Program Anatolian Vocational High School Teacher and Electrical-Electronics Department Chief Deniz Kılıç said that with the protocol they made with Elcab Kablo, we teach their students work ethics, work discipline and work habits by doing and living in the kitchen of the business.