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Can One Combine Networking for a Job with Mentoring?
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KATHRYN STEINER, MBA
Entrepreneur, United States

Can One Combine Networking for a Job with Mentoring?

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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Michael D. Moore
Entrepreneur, United States
 

Combining Networking for a Job with Mentoring

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 potential mentor can be convinced that mentoring is not directly related to making an impression in order to get hired... It might work.

 
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KATHRYN STEINER, MBA
Entrepreneur, United States
 

Networking and Mentoring

Being honest and telling the mentor of your aspirations with respect to their company is appropriate, based on the definitions of mentoring included above.
Perhaps the person who is employed with the company the mentee wishes to work for, can provide information that would be "helpful in facilitation of learning towards long term goals," as stated in the introduction of this page.
Ultimately this may or may not include employment with their company. Katie.

 
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Michael D. Moore
Entrepreneur, United States
 

Networking & Mentoring

Katie - you are right on point with the honesty of the motive. As long as the mentor feels the mente... Sign up

 
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KATHRYN STEINER, MBA
Entrepreneur, United States
 

Networking and Mentoring

The mentor may share their observations on the mentees strengths, while honestly suggesting areas th... Sign up

 
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Sandip Pandya, United States
 

Combining Networking with Mentoring

If one reviews the definition of 'mentoring', it points to the relationship between mentor and mente... Sign up

 
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KATHRYN STEINER, MBA
Entrepreneur, United States
 

Combining Networking with Mentoring

Hello Sandip, Your inclusion of the definition of the mentor and mentee relationship being "outside... Sign up

 
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Sandip Pandya, United States
 

Combining Networking with Mentoring

I agree with this view-point. That is one of the landscapes on the carpet. In another view, if the ... Sign up

 
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KATHRYN STEINER, MBA
Entrepreneur, United States
 

Combining Networking with Mentoring

In other words, the best fit for the mentee can be determined by being mentored by those in other de... Sign up

 
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Sandip Pandya, United States
 

Combining Networking with Mentoring

Yes and no. Any mentor can identify strength and weaknesses of mentee. However, in the growth stage ... Sign up

 
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Michael D. Moore
Entrepreneur, United States
 

Combine Networking for a Job with Mentoring

To sandip's point, I agree that a true mentoring realtionship will not usually come from the supervi... Sign up

 
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KATHRYN STEINER, MBA
Entrepreneur, United States
 

Combine Networking for a Job with Mentoring

Sandip, I can see what you are alluding to with your statement regarding the introduction of a mente... Sign up

 
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Arthur Panton
Consultant, Kenya
 

Combining Networking and Mentoring

A fellow student decided to mentor her boss; he misunderstood at first and agreed to mentor her. She... Sign up

 
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KATHRYN STEINER, MBA
Entrepreneur, United States
 

Mentoring with Employee of Organization of Interest Produces Various Outcomes

There can be multiple benefits with approaching an individual you admire who works for an organizati... Sign up

 

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More on Mentoring:
Summary
Discussion Topics
topic Why is Mentoring Under-utilized?
topic Finding a Good Mentor
🔥 Should Mentoring be Mandatory?
topic Effective Mentor Competencies
topic More Managers with Mentoring Skills Needed
topic How to Become an Expert (Quickly)
topic Mentor Traits and Requirements
topic Mentoring is Giving a Person a Passion of Following his own Way
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topic Formalized versus Instinctive Mentoring
topic Do Organizations Know what it Takes to MENTOR New Personnel?
topic Phases in Mentoring Relationships
topic Mentoring of Students
topic What is Mentoring? Mentoring is ...
topic The Effect of Values of Society Upon Mentoring
topic Mentoring in Various Cultures
topic Using Mentoring for Breaking the Glass Ceiling?
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