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Angela Lee
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Demand Gen Marketer at Linkedin.
05/11/20 at 9:44PM UTC
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Looking for a mentor

I'm looking for a great career mentor. Not sure where to get started! Any tips?

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Clydene H
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Passionately helping customers & succeed.
05/19/20 at 10:05PM UTC
We are starting one at our office. One thing that was outlined is that it is the mentee’s job to drive the relationship and have specific topics to discuss in those meetings. Is that how many others do it?
Laura McCann
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Driving results through people engagement
05/19/20 at 8:24PM UTC
Totally agree on the Women's Resource group at work! Great idea! We are working on matching up mentors. I am also a huge fan of talking to your boss or another leader, letting them know of your interest in a mentor. They may know someone with whom they could match you.
Quynh Tran
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05/12/20 at 4:06PM UTC
You can try cold outreach to people who have career paths you are interested in. I wouldn't ask in the first email/message for them to be a mentor. Instead you could ask for a coffee chat and then if you find the conversation goes well, keep checking in with them once a month or so and then over time the relationship becomes natural. Once you find a mentor, this article I read on Goop was super helpful on how to get the most out of the relationship - https://goop.com/wellness/career-money/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-a-mentorship/
Melanie
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05/12/20 at 6:25AM UTC
Also, Consider joining an women’s resource group at work to seek a mentor or find someone at work you admire and ask. I recently paired a junior sales associate with a VP Sales because she asked. She also asked me so every few months we chat and I track her career. Good luck!
Georgene Huang
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05/12/20 at 12:21AM UTC
There is a mentor / mentee group here...have you checked that out? https://fairygodboss.com/groups/H1DQ3eIrS/fgb-official-mentors-mentees-group
Angela Lee
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Demand Gen Marketer at Linkedin.
05/12/20 at 3:32AM UTC
Thank you Georgene! I just added myself to it :)

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