In this article, I address a problem with foreign trade training: ‘The Unknown Tells the Unknowing' As someone who has completed 33 years in the foreign trade industry, I have encountered many inexperienced people who have taught. Some dare to train even with limited work experience. As Ertuğrul Bey stated in his article, families are lending their children credit for these poor educations, unfortunately, they are wasting a large amount of money.

Recently, I noticed the article by Ertuğrul Evliyaoğlu, who is experienced in foreign trade, on Linkedin. He also talks about the inadequacy of training provided by inexperienced people. Evliyaoglu says that those who participate in these trainings complete the courses without learning anything.

In fact, it is possible to further increase the examples in the following article in response. For example, another one that comes to mind later. We had given 200 hours of detailed training in Mersin years ago."Foreign Trade Fairies‘This very successful program, ‘, had its place in the national press, even without any PR work. Then MTSO The late Ibrahim KIPER, who is also the head of the Education Foundation, has also put a lot of effort into this education, and I fondly remember him from here. The concept of education consisted of newly graduated students. A few days after it was completed, one of the participants called me and asked for their lecture notes, which were actually given to them in the form of a book in print. Turns out he wants his digital version as a soft copy, so I asked him why. What do you like to say? There is an educational institution in Mersin and yours will teach foreign trade there. My mouth was open in the face of friend's confidence.

So I wrote a long answer about it that included my own experiences and thoughts. Here is my response below, I wanted to share it with you.

Mr. Ertuğrul to your mouth...
There is so much to write about... I used to write to the new;

Foreign Trade Trainings: Those who don't know tell those who don't.

In fact, he had summed up the issue in the best way when he was chatting with an executive officer at the Regional Directorate of this sector, which was then managed as Undersecretary: "Those who don't know, tell those who don't" And since the listening Unknowing don't know the subject, the telling Unknowing is true. It's so painful...

Cancelled Trainings

About 10 to 12 years ago, a city KOSGEB During a conversation with the manager; He mentioned that they had to cancel some foreign trade training that they would open, as they could not block the people you specified (by adding them to the problem). I can't remember why they can't add(yes) to the "At least 15 years of experience" requirement right now.

Development Center

Using the name of its unknown Center, which was set up to develop this sector, and why it was closed, there is another one that initially gave the impression that it came from there and now launches itself in the form that it has been operating as a foreign trade education and consultancy for 25 years. There are dozens of case files on unfulfilled promises filed against him. And no one, friend, is asking who you are.

Competency

I have finished 32 years in this industry and, as Abdurrahman Bey noted in an article last year, I am still learning new things every day. Anyone who teaches must first be subjected to a detailed exam. About last year Ministry of Trade I brought it up at a meeting on Export Consultancy, attended by the General Manager of Exports; I asked why the Customs Counsellor has an exam, why the Foreign Trade Counsel does not have an exam. They said it's been on their agenda for years. However, this issue still did not get in the way of other items of the agenda.

...as if

There is another phenomenon in the industry that originated in theatre (yes, you read it correctly) and says it almost invented commercial intelligence. I had 15 years of experience when the star started to shine. This gentleman, who is a few years older than me, ate his bread for years for the photograph he took in front of a container loading while wandering around Kayseri. I wish he'd deny me that, so we could prove it from the container number and have fun.

Flying Escaped...

With just a few years of experience, there's another who's been giving out training! and handing out badges, claiming to fly companies, and asking the participant what to tell us now in training. They ask the man, if you can't find anything to tell in 10-12 hours of training, what are you doing there? If you had theater training, you'd improvise. Since he's not either...

Halal Salary

Years ago, when he was teaching at a school of foreign trade that was stormy at the time, the most high school graduate gardener pensioners recorded a brother of ours in exchange for a large sum. When our brother stated that he was told that he could also do Foreign Trade Brokering without knowing English when he signed up, I went on sale. He went to the boss and asked if I knew how the salaries were paid. I didn't want to get paid like that, so I left, of course...

There are many more examples like this...

Reference Important

The last sentence; Investigate who you are receiving the training from and their references very well.

Gökhan Erol

Foreign Trade Trainings: Those Who Don't Know Tell Those Who Don't Know