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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 […]

Marcin Kruglik is a Software Developer with Push Technology in London; he won’t mind me telling you this, but he’s 37, and this is his first IT job.   Having started out on another career path, Marcin wanted to make a change, building a career in an industry that he feels a real passion for – […]

Are you a software developer that wished your employer would offer 20% time to work on your own software projects? Would you like to know how to get management buy in? Are you a CTO considering introducing this at your company to either drive technical innovation or as a perk to increase retention? Are you someone […]

Our second official Q+A Session happened on Wednesday 28th February at 18:00. The full transcript of the Q+A is available on the #qanda_clojure channel in the Meet a Mentor slack group. If you are not a member you can sign up below. We spoke at length for an hour to four mentors on the subject of […]

There was an interesting discussion in the Meet a Mentor Community yesterday about developers working on personal projects outside of their core hours and how that is perceived by interviewers. It made me cast my mind back to my graduate recruiting days. When I was a recruiter I personally loved finding candidates that showed an […]