Frequently Asked Questions

The Career and Guidance Center provides professional support to students and graduates in career management and job search processes. Its services include career fairs, cover letter and resume preparation, interview techniques seminars, business visits, alumni gatherings, and guidance in job/internship searches.

You can reach us via the email address kariyermerkezi@gedik.edu.tr.

The Career and Guidance Center is open every weekday between 08:00 and 17:30.

To schedule a career counseling appointment, you can request an appointment for a suitable date by sending an email to kariyermerkezi@gedik.edu.tr or by contacting us at 0501 782 92 91. You need to confirm the scheduled appointment date through the “Career Counseling” tab on Talent Gateway.

Sessions usually last between 45 minutes and 1 hour.

The Career and Guidance Center offers seminars and one-on-one counseling on preparing an effective resume.

A cover letter should attract the employer's interest, be specific to the position you are applying for, and complement your resume. You can get help with this from the Career and Guidance Center.

You should prepare a resume and cover letter that match the requirements of the position you are applying for, not miss application deadlines, and keep in touch with the employer after your application.

The Career and Guidance Center offers internship opportunities to students by collaborating with various companies. You can contact the Career and Guidance Center for information about internship opportunities.

You can get detailed information at kariyerkapisi.cbiko.gov.tr.

The Career and Guidance Center provides guidance during job/internship search processes, shares job/internship postings, and brings students together with companies.

Yes, graduates can also benefit from the services offered by the Career and Guidance Center. You can continue to receive professional support in career management and job search processes.

Events organized by our Career and Guidance Center are regularly announced to all our students through our website and social media accounts. You can access event dates, application links and detailed information through these channels.

You can contact the Career and Guidance Center to get information about and take part in alumni reunions.

You can access all forms at https://bilgi.gedik.edu.tr/belge-ve-formlar.

Under normal circumstances, you need to do your internship at places operating in fields related to the program you are enrolled in. For example, if you are a student of the Banking and Insurance Program, you need to do your internship at a company related to Finance and Banking, because the purpose of an internship is to experience first-hand how the theoretical education you received at school is applied in working life.
However, you should make the final decision about your internship place based on the information you receive from your department advisors. In short, be sure to ask your department advisors where you can do your internship before making your official application.

Students first do their own preliminary research on the companies where they would like to do an internship. You should meet, in person or in writing, with companies/institutions/organizations that have the characteristics specified by your department advisors, explain your situation to these companies and state that you would like to work with them for your internship. If you cannot find a company for your internship, you can apply to the Gedik University Department of Health, Culture and Sports or to the relevant Faculty Internship Coordinators.

The period between .................... is sufficient to find an internship placement. During this period, you can also get support from your instructors. Students must have determined their internship placement within these dates. Students who still have not found an internship placement within these dates cannot do an internship.

You can do your internship at the company you work for, provided that it is compatible with the program you are studying in. Given today's economic conditions, there is no objection to students who work for a salary at a workplace (and who prove this to their class advisor or program coordinator with a payroll, salary certificate, company ID, official letter, etc.) doing their internship where they currently work.

A student may skip at most 1 summer internship from their year of entry, whether by not doing an internship, failing it, or having it deemed invalid. If it is not your first time skipping, you can postpone it to the following year. However, remember that even if you have passed all your courses and your grade point average qualifies you to graduate, you cannot graduate if you have not done your internship, and your studies will be extended.

In accordance with the regulation, our students must do an internship of at least 20 working days. The “occupational accident and occupational disease insurance premium” for these 20 days will be paid by the Istanbul Gedik University Rectorate. Students who wish may do a longer internship, provided that they complete at least 20 working days.

Pursuant to Law No. 5510, the Istanbul Gedik University Rectorate is responsible for paying the “occupational accident and occupational disease insurance premiums” for as many days as the student applying for an internship will intern. After the relevant section of the form is approved by the workplace official and the document is delivered to the school by the student, our university will make the Social Security registration covering the relevant dates via SGK e-declaration.

As specified in the law, since you will be an “Intern Student”, our University will insure you only against “occupational accidents and occupational diseases”. This insurance does not entitle you to retirement or health services, nor does it prevent you from benefiting from these rights if you are already working as an insured employee.

Istanbul Gedik University does not make any payment to its students doing internships. However, some private organizations where internships are done provide a certain fee or transportation/meal support. This depends entirely on the agreement between the student and the organization where the internship is done.

If you are dismissed from the workplace some time after starting your internship, you must submit a letter stating the reason, addressed to the relevant Faculty/School Dean's Office/Directorate and approved by your workplace supervisor, to the Faculty/School Internship Coordinator. Afterwards, you can continue your internship at another company by preparing a Company Change Form.

Students taking courses in summer school may do an internship during the summer school period by submitting a petition, provided that they have at least three course-free days during the week.

Students who have passed all their courses and are at the graduation stage but have not done their internship, students who have fulfilled the attendance requirement, have no attendance obligation and have not done their internship, or students who have failed only one course and have not done their internship may do their compulsory internship during the semester, outside the summer months, upon the recommendation of the Department Head and the decision of the Executive Board.

One week is based on 5 working days; if it is documented that the workplace operates on Saturdays, a week is counted as 6 working days.

Every student who does an internship must submit their internship logbook and related documents to the Faculty/School Department/Program Head's Office within the first 15 days of the start of the semester following the internship at the latest. Internship documents not submitted on time without an excuse will not be accepted. The Department Head decides on excuses upon the student's official application.

Students taking courses in summer school may do an internship during the summer school period by submitting a petition, provided that they have at least three course-free days during the week.

Yes, it is possible to do an internship abroad. Although the application and evaluation process is the same, insurance and other legal processes are the responsibility of the student. An Erasmus internship is recommended.

“Occupational accident and occupational disease” insurance is provided by the Faculty Dean's Office/School Directorate for every student who will do an internship, within the scope of Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510. This insurance is provided only for compulsory internships. For optional voluntary internships, insurance is limited to 60 days.

It is possible, provided that all the steps and procedures of the internship process are followed and the requirements are met.

You can fill out your internship logbook on a computer using the Times New Roman font in 12 points, or by hand using a blue ballpoint pen.

All internship forms must be filled out on a computer. Forms filled out by hand are considered invalid.

Our university offers vocational training practices in the 7+1, 6+2 (Faculty of Sports Sciences), 3+1 and 2+2 (Vocational School) models. You can do vocational training if you meet the application requirements during the practice period included in your program's curriculum.

No, you cannot. Since In-house Vocational Training is a course, it is only offered in the relevant semester and can only be done during the teaching periods specified in the academic calendar. However, it can be done in the summer term if you pay the course hour fee and the relevant course is opened within the scope of summer school.

The wage rights of the student doing Vocational Training, as regulated in Vocational Training Law No. 3308, are protected throughout the In-house Vocational Training period.

If you have problems with the company where you are doing In-house Vocational Training, you should talk to the relevant Faculty Member in your department. If the In-house Vocational Training commission finds it appropriate to change your company, it may place you at another company in the company pool that requests students, or it may ask you to find a suitable company yourself.

A protocol must be signed between the institution where you will do In-house Vocational Training and our university. After that, the forms required for the in-house vocational training practice must be prepared. You can access the relevant forms at https://bilgi.gedik.edu.tr/belge-ve-formlar.

No. If you do not do in-house vocational training, you can continue with the academic semester by choosing the courses in your program and do your summer internship at the end of the term.

In-house vocational training starts at the beginning of the "in-house vocational training" semester included in your program's curriculum and ends at the end of the term.

If you fail in-house vocational training, you may, if you wish, go to vocational training again the following year, or take courses during the academic semester and do a summer internship at the end of the term.

Students are required to attend the company/institution continuously during the In-house Vocational Training practice. Leave cannot be taken except for illness, exams, the death of a first-degree relative or similar emergencies. In compulsory situations requiring leave, permission must be obtained from the Training Staff. Excluding days of absence, there is a mandatory attendance requirement of at least 60 working days.

During midterm week, on the day of the exam for a current or retaken course, you can take the exam by filling out the leave form and using leave. Otherwise, attendance at In-house Vocational Training is compulsory.

You can request an account by clicking the “Career Center” tab in the left menu at https://bilgi.gedik.edu.tr/, and create your posting by filling out the company registration form.

Postings remain active for 30 days, and no fee is charged for this service.

If you send your request by email to kariyermerkezi@gedik.edu.tr, the necessary editing or removal will be made on the relevant posting.

You can apply by filling out the “Career Events Application Form” on our website.