Interviewer: Belgin Gezer
“People in Turkey are more disciplined, structured and organized, however Egyptians are more driven with passion where competition means everything in Egypt…“
Anıl Bakkaloğlu
THE INTERVIEW
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HR Revolution Middle East Magazine: What do you think about the youth leader?
Anıl Bakkaloğlu: A youth leader is someone who knows about his/her potential and self-aware enough to know how to serve the best for the world.
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HR Revolution Middle East Magazine: What was your turning point in your life?
Anıl Bakkaloğlu: My volunteering experience in Egypt for 2 months. It felt do impactful. It’s such an incomparable feeling that you work for the development of a country, especially the development of youth in one country that’s not yours. The idea of feeling ownership for world’s future was really something that I believe I want to continue all my life.
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HR Revolution Middle East Magazine: Where are you seeing youth leaders in during the next 10 years?
Anıl Bakkaloğlu: Doing something meaningful, making a difference in any society they are in. But contributing for a better world, not being a part of the ordinary mainstream world or jobs.
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HR Revolution Middle East Magazine: Do you want to work in your own department except volunteering stuff?
Anıl Bakkaloğlu: Well, my own department now is organizational development. Right now I’m enjoying, but I’m in the exploration phase of deciding if it’s what I want to do whole my life or not. So I need time to decide about what to do.
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HR Revolution Middle East Magazine: What was your reason of joining and continuing in AIESEC?
Anıl Bakkaloğlu: I’m feeling purposeful and contributing something better than me. I am impacting on world youth and that’s what I want to do all my life. I am developing myself. I become more self aware and a world citizen, I’m getting to know different cultures, breaking my stereotypes and understanding the world better.
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HR Revolution Middle East Magazine: How do you think the peace of world will happening?
Anıl Bakkaloğlu: Through cultural tolerance and respecting what’s different from us.
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HR Revolution Middle East Magazine: You worked in Turkey and also you are working in Egypt. Can you compare between Turkey and Egypt regarding the working culture?
Anıl Bakkaloğlu: People in Turkey are more disciplined, structured and organized, however Egyptians are more driven with passion where competition means everything in Egypt. If I want to drive a campaign, a task, I’m making sure that it’s competition based.