• How many years have you been a member of the Sika Family?
I have completed my sixth year in this nice journey that I started on April 24, 2015.
• What did you feel when you first started at Sika? What were your first impressions?
When I first started at Sika, it can be said that I was at the very beginning of my career since I had only one year of working experience, and so I was very excited. To be meeting new people and to be involved in a new industry really dragged me into a sweet excitement. Sika was an industry that I was not familiar to, but I remember very well that I had seen the tankers of Sika before. That yellow colour and the red triangle had been unwittingly engraved in my memory.
Actually, in my journey with Sika, I was a little worried since I did not have a staff yet. It was very good for me to feel the warmth of people from the first day, and I had already begun to dream of being in this environment for many years.
• Can you please share your most emotional moment in Sika?
I think that I am one of the few persons who have experienced working in different departments at Sika. The journey that I started in the Purchasing Department continued by moving to the Marketing and Corporate Communications Department, which was the field I was dreaming during the times of university. To be working in the field I wanted as a permanent staff made me happy and also affected me emotionally. I think it was the most emotional moment when I said farewell to my teammates although I was going be moving to the next floor.
• What is the moment when you have been most proud of being a member to the Sika Family?
The thing that makes me most proud at Sika is that we are proceeding together, hand in hand, by adding strength to our strength, in spite of the bad conditions that emerge every year.
• We all face challenges in our professional life.
Can you share the most difficult situation you have been in Sika and how you overcome that situation?
In my first experience in the Marketing and Corporate Communications Department, there were two fair organisations that coincided with at the same time. Since my director, Mr. Fazlı, was on marriage leave at that time, I panicked because I was going to manage these two organisations. However, thanks to the good support of my teammates and the remote support of my director Mr. Fazlı, we created a successful organisation.
• What has your greatest professional success been at Sika?
As the Marketing and Corporate Communications Department, we are paying attention to and attach importance on creating campaigns every year, unlike other Sika companies. We are also aiming to be a pioneer with these creative campaign ideas that we have put forward. We shared a campaign that we created at the end of last year with the EMEA Region Marketing Manager, and we got very good reactions. In a webinar that is monthly held in the EMEA Region, they made us an offer for presenting our campaign. Thanks to the support of my director Mr. Fazlı as well, I notified to them that I was going to do this presentation fondly. I explained about our campaign in the webinar where there were about 200 marketing employees from dozens of countries. Pioneering miscellaneous countries this way has really made us proud. We are also proud for having executed nice campaigns in the Sika Campaign platform formed by the Global company, and for inspiring other employees.
• How has Sika changed from the day you started up to now?
Actually so much has changed in Sika from the day I started. Our family has expanded even more with the participation of ABC Sealants and Davco companies. This way, we have added even more strength to our strength.
• Is there a moment when you really realise that you are a team?
In Marketing and Corporate Communications Department we often come across sudden developments. We fulfil our tasks in an organised manner in a short time and produce a good work. For example, we quickly organised and produced very successful launches after the company acquisitions. After these acquisitions, we immediately ensured integration in many processes, including packaging works, social media channels and the website. In such cases, you can realise that you are really a team. And also in the Marketing and Corporate Communications Meeting that we hold every year, I can realise that we are a real team. We have missed so much the meetings that we organised by getting together. We used to get very tired, but the peace of having organised a good organisation used to give way to a sweet tiredness for us.
• What do you think about Sika's and your future?
I hope that we will continue our success day by day. I hope that I can have the chance to see further ahead by providing Sika with my best in this journey where I proceed pleasantly every year.
• Finally, is there anything you would like to add?
The most beautiful thing that Sika brought me has been friendships. Unfortunately we have been distanced from each other in these troublesome times. We are longing to come together in this process. Wishing to come altogether in the New Year events where we can have crazy fun. :)