In Expotim, in which I started as the Department Assistant in project department as a new graduate, I was promoted to International Sales Specialist after my talents in foreign language, responsibility, leadership, hard work, customer relations, problem solving, computer technologies were discovered in a short time period like 2 months.In this assignment, I was a part of the team of four people, who actively worked to organize the first ever oil and gas trade exhibition and conference in Iraq, which was never done before. After the first Basra Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference, which was a huge success and was named the biggest exhibition in Iraq, I continued to take part in organizing the second, third and fourth versions of this exhibition which had turnovers of approximately 8 million USD each. Apart from Basra, I also worked in organizing oil and gas exhibitions in Erbil and Baghdad likewise. World energy and engineering giants such as BP, Shell, General Electric, ExxonMobil, Siemens, Samsung, Hyundai, Petronas, Halliburton exhibited in these events.My main responsibilities were; finding new potential customers, making contact with the authorized officials of companies, introducing and presenting the exhibitions, convincing the officials to participate in the events, negotiating the sales contracts and completing the sales of exhibition areas, keeping in touch after sales and following up, planning the payments of customers, attending the exhibitions, ensuring customer satisfaction by taking care of their needs in the field, preparing detailed reports of exhibitors and visitors after the event, improving the event according to the reports.My side responsibilities were; presenting the exhibitions in printed, online and social media, increasing awareness by making advertisement or barter deals with newspapers and magazines, communicating with Turkish and foreign state officials to get necessary permissions and documents in order to organize events abroad.

As a student, I worked as both host and supervisor at various expos and other advertising organizations such as Autoshow, Motoshow, Cebit, Akbank Jazz Festival etc. I took responsibility, managed and controlled the crew under my supervision.