Mentoring Service

Questions: 1. Many organisations provide a professional mentoring service to their new graduates or employees. This can take the form of personal mentoring, where a senior employee mentors a new or junior member of staff. How do you think that you could benefit from having mentor during the initial years of your professional employment?2. Provide details of 2 activities that you are going to undertake as part of your professional career planning. These might include attending ACS events, subscribing to professional publications, gaining accreditation in specific technical areas, or any others that you would like to undertake. For each activity, describe how you believe that this will progress your professional career. Answers: 1. An essential step in a persons career is to establish a successful mentor relationship. It is beneficial for both the mentor and the mentee. It helps to identify, define and articulate common ideals and goals. Different mentors have different mentoring style. The mentee benefits from the mentor by gaining experience. Experience gained from the mentor helps to give the career an updraft. A good experienced mentor helps the mentee secure a job at a reputed company for a bigger role of responsibility. The mentor can help to understand the research of the student. A mentor can teach how to balance work and research or personal life, and deliver good productivity. A mentor provides words of wisdom. Negotiations in life are an important lesson that the mentor can teach his or her students (Woods and Preciado 2016). 2. Activities after completing master degree can help improving the chances of getting good job prospect. Technical skills can make a prospective student highly desirable for a company hiring employees. Computer training with a focus on programming language like C/ C++ programming, JAVA etc., makes a candidates resume attractive to the recruiters. Technical skills can help students gain an edge over others when applying for a job. Publications- A research by a student, which is considered for publication in good journals, shows the capability for extensive and productive research to the employers. Publications in the journals as well as working in a journal office as an Editor, writer or proofreaders helps to gain professional experience. These experiences can help to secure a better job with greater responsibility (Ali 2016). References Ali, S.A., 2016. Critical Thinking in the Information Age: Helping Students Find and Evaluate Scientific Information. Teaching Innovation Projects, 6(1), p.3. Woods, C.S. and Preciado, M., 2016. StudentMentor Relationships and Students' College Attitudes. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR), 21(2), pp.90-103.