On August 24, 2009
How to Build Your Mentoring Network
If you are a professional in the first few years of your career, you probably know about the importance of having a mentor. However, you may have yet to successfully find one. In “How to Be a Smart Protégé,” featured in the MIT Sloan Management Review, authors Dawn E. Chandler, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram discuss the difficulty young professionals face in finding a traditional mentor in today’s work environment: Seasoned workers rarely stay in a job long enough to stick close to a protégé for any length of time. And they’re often too harried managing their own careers to devote lots of attention to somebody else’s. As an alternative, they suggest young workers should build up a…
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