Chapter 21. THE MENTOR MARKETPLACE
Christie Dowling and Victor Gulas
As professionals enter the workplace and look to rapidly increase their skills, understanding of the company, and professional network, many of them ask for help identifying a mentor. Although the mentor–protégé relationship is a very personal one, many companies try to create matches through formal mentoring programs. These can be great, especially for pairing new employees who have a particular technical focus with mentors who understand the area. However, formal mentoring programs, for which organizations often have very high expectations, do not necessarily create successful matches and can go too far in prescribing the terms of the relationship. In addition, formal programs, ...
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