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DIY Mentoring

By Diane Costigan
February 28, 2012

No one should care more about your career than you do. It is difficult to be successful and reach career objectives in isolation. The help of others is needed along the way: to train, to advise, to motivate, to give perspective, to educate, and to interject healthy doses of reality. Unfortunately, this need does not change with seniority ' particularly because goals get set higher and usually require significant effort and energy. Mentors can serve any or all of these roles. In fact, similar to financial investments you will want a well-diversified portfolio of mentors who can contribute to your career in different ways depending on your goals.

Mentors are not, however, panaceas for all career woes or facilitators of all aspirations. No one should care more about your career than you do. Not even a mentor. If any of these people care more about your vocational plans than you do, you are in for a very unsatisfying career. Similarly, if you are waiting for a mentor to create an opportunity, you may be waiting a long time ' especially if you have not asked for it or shown what role you can play in helping to get it.

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