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Mentoring > Forum > Can One Combine Networking for a Job with Mentoring?
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Can One Combine Networking for a Job with Mentoring?
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member
Can one approach an individual and ask this person to mentor you, within an organization that you hope to be employed with?...
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Combining Networking for a Job with Mentoring
Michael D. Moore, Entrepreneur, United States, Member Tricky proposition. If the request for mentoring with a person in a company you hope to work for appears to manipulative it won't work. If the potenti...
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Networking and Mentoring
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member Being honest and telling the mentor of your aspirations with respect to their company is appropriate, based on the definitions of mentoring included a...
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Networking & Mentoring
Michael D. Moore, Entrepreneur, United States, Member Katie - you are right on point with the honesty of the motive. As long as the mentor feels the mentee is credible with their desire for "learning', I ...
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Networking and Mentoring
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member The mentor may share their observations on the mentees strengths, while honestly suggesting areas that could be improved. I agree that the basis for t...
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Combining Networking with Mentoring
Sandip Pandya If one reviews the definition of 'mentoring', it points to the relationship between mentor and mentee to be outside the subordinate-manager area
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Combining Networking with Mentoring
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member Hello Sandip,
Your inclusion of the definition of the mentor and mentee relationship being " outside the subordinate-manager area," is thou...
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Combining Networking with Mentoring
Sandip Pandya I agree with this view-point. That is one of the landscapes on the carpet.
In another view, if the department head is omnipresent personality or ...
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Combining Networking with Mentoring
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member In other words, the best fit for the mentee can be determined by being mentored by those in other departments? The mentee can contribute to the depart...
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Combining Networking with Mentoring
Sandip Pandya Yes and no. Any mentor can identify strength and weaknesses of mentee. However, in the growth stage of the career, the relationship can risk the indiv...
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Combine Networking for a Job with Mentoring
Michael D. Moore, Entrepreneur, United States, Member To sandip's point, I agree that a true mentoring realtionship will not usually come from the supervisor. The supervisor-employee relationship is compl...
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Combine Networking for a Job with Mentoring
KATHRYN STEINER, MBA, Entrepreneur, United States, Member Sandip, I can see what you are alluding to with your statement regarding the introduction of a mentee to a team, whether virtual or in person. There a...
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Combining Networking and Mentoring
Arthur Panton, Consultant, Kenya, Member A fellow student decided to mentor her boss; he misunderstood at first and agreed to mentor her. She took him out to lunch and he was so impressed he ...
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