All of us partake in some self-reflection regarding our careers from time to time. Sometimes, this might lead us to a place where we realise we’ve taken everything we can from what we’re currently doing, and it’s time for a sideways move or promotion; sometimes, it might lead to an epiphany and a complete change […]
We’re back with the next in our series of guides to help you to have brilliant career development mentoring sessions. Hopefully you read our blog last week. If not, in summary, it was all about helping anyone who is trying to work their way through their career options, long or short term; and how they […]
This week I had a chat with the founder of Meet a Mentor, Barry Cranford. We discussed all things MAM and mentoring, but one real area of interest was understanding the reasons that people come to us to find a mentor. Barry’s been keeping an eye on the trends around this… ‘Typically, what I see […]
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 […]
