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A recent CareerWomen.com poll found that 62% of women have a formal or
informal mentor in the workplace. Of these mentors, 64% were male and
36% were female. The support these mentors provide is very different.
Male mentors help women by providing general business training,
leadership opportunities, coaching feedback and advice on networking
and career advancement. Women mentors help other women by providing
informal fellowship, guidance within the corporation, motivation,
encouragement, and strategies for career success, work/life balance,
job sharing, maternity leave and counteracting gender bias.. Therefore
it might be to your advantage to have two mentors -- as they say, one
form Mars the other from Venus!
Find a mentor who will give you effect advice, feedback, guidance,
networking and leadership opportunities, highlight your qualifications
to others, provide you with visibility within the organization, and
help you develop to your fullest potential.
Someone who can help you moves up within or outside of your company,
and who can ultimately guide you to meet your own professional goals.
Source: CareerWomen.com
/ The Career Exposure
Network™
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Posted on January 12, 2010 11:34:24 PM PST
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