Çağlayan taught Creativity in Communication as a research assistant at the Faculty of Art and Design at Istanbul Kültür University and lectured at the Public Relations and Advertising and Visual Communication departments at Beykent University.[1][2]
He later worked as a columnist and conducted interviews for Radikal newspaper.[3] On 3 February 2016, he started writing for Nokta magazine.[4]
In April 2017, Çağlayan continued his career by preparing reports for Posta, and a month later left his position as a journalist and joined Kanal D on 8 June 2017.[5] 17 Following the sale of Kanal D to Demirören Media Group on 17 May 2018, he was dismissed along with many other media employees.[6] On 14 March 2018, he joined Popstar 2018 singing contest as a judge.[7] However, this program did not reach the required rating and made an early final on 23 May 2018.[8]