We can’t quite believe it, but it’s been just over 18 months since we made our first MAM introduction. We’ve come a really, really long way in that time so we thought what better time to update you on what’s happening and what’s coming next. At the last count we had… drum roll … 239 […]
We’ve made over 800 mentoring connections now at MAM (go us!), but we really want to understand what makes certain mentoring relationships work better than others. Is there a magic formula? Or at least some top tips we can share? With this in mind, we caught up with mentor Ignacio, a Front End Developer at […]
We’re really enjoying our journey to get to know our MAM community. In our latest interview we caught up with another of our mentors, Steve Giles to find out what he thinks makes a great mentee. Steve has been VP Engineering at Topia (formally MOVE Guides) for the last 5 years, and has 16 years’ experience […]
You know we’re all about supporting people at every stage of their career. We recently had a question asked of us about how someone without a University level education can get a job in the tech/software industry. So, a group of our members got their heads together to help out. They all agreed that the biggest […]
If you follow our blogs you’ll know we’ve been getting to know members of the Meet a Mentor community through our series of Spotlight interviews. Whilst it’s fantastic to hear how much our group does for the mentees, we want to take things a step further, and understand, from the perspective of a mentor, what […]
In our latest catch up with members of the MaM community, we spoke to Miguel Rodriguez who is both a mentee and a mentor. We discussed Miguel’s career journey, his experience to date with MaM and his advice for those new to programming. Miguel is passionate about technology and is a lifelong programmer. Starting out […]
In the next of our series of Spotlight blogs, I caught up with Iacopo Catalano, a Physics student from Italy, and a current Mentee on the Meet a Mentor programme. Physics I hear you ask? I thought the programme was to support Java Developers? Well, if you’ve our previous articles http://meetamentor.co.uk/mentee-to-mentor-building-a-new-it-career-with-recworks-meet-a-mentor-programme you’ll know that the Meet a […]
This week I caught up with another of our Meet a Mentor Mentees, Chris Sewell. We discussed Chris’ experiences as a new Mentee, his advice for aspiring Java Developers and his hopes for the industry as a whole. After graduating from the University of the West of England, Chris worked across several technologies ranging from […]
As we continue on our journey to get to know our Meet a Mentor participants, I quizzed Andrei Bogomja to get his view on all things MAM. Having worked for many years in the media in Latvia, Andrei moved to the UK to study Publishing, and graduated with a BA degree. However, in his spare […]
Meet a Study Group is the latest addition to Meet a Mentor. If you are interested in signing up to a study group under the Meet a Study Group initiative you can sign up here If you’d like to find out more then here is an FAQ: It is a project designed to connect you […]
