Another useful approach is for mentors to review the available pool of persons and places that mentees should consider meeting with and visiting as sources of information.
The contacts available through the mentor’s own work and educational network are often valuable avenues for the mentee to explore in order to gain an insider’s view of academic, government, and corporate culture.
Moreover, mentees can usually benefit from the important opportunity to learn the assertive interpersonal lesson that even apparently impenetrable bureaucracy can be accessed by a determined and astute person.
Such a practical lesson can especially serve as a vital insight and motivator to those mentees who, lacking fully developed social skills themselves, ...
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