When you embark on a brand new professional adventure, talking with a more experienced mentor is a significant plus. However, the past few months have been turbulent, especially with the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led many people to question their relationship to work. Some decide to reorient themselves to work freelance or abroad.
These changes have disrupted traditional mentoring programs, connecting an experienced professional with novices, notes the Wall Street Journal. The latter, less well advised, are more prone to missteps that stain, such as sending an awkward canvassing email.
However, the world of work is not always kind to newcomers, and certain clumsiness is paid for in cash. For the famous economic title, do not hesitate to contact experts via social networks. So did Priya Jaisinghani, seeking a fellowship in endocrinology, who sent the following message, on Twitter, to Vineet Arora, dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine, at the University of Chicago.
“Hello, I am a postdoctoral student in the first year. I seek to analyze the current public health crisis relating to the spread of the anti-Covid vaccine from the perspective of qualitative improvement.
To her surprise, the person contacted responded to her, despite her 43,000 followers, and agreed to mentor her. Sign, for the Wall Street Journalthat social networks make it possible to work with experienced people.
Don’t neglect LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a good place to build professional relationships. Searches for mentors and mentees on LinkedIn doubled in the first half of January 2022 compared to the same period a year earlier, the social network to 830 million members said. According to a study carried out by the company on a sample of 2,000 working people questioned in the United States, more than half of them confide that they have never had a mentor and 18% have one currently.
Finally, the American economic newspaper points out that mentoring programs are also possible within companies themselves. Remotely or physically.
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