Any IT professional at any point of time in his/her career needs a Mentor, Due to lack of awareness, parents/siblings are not the best sources of mentorship even though they are natural choices In childhood some teachers were mentors. If you really have a successful /trustworthy friend/relative in the same profession, you are very lucky. In many other fields such as art, music, sports mentorship is an acceptable role.
Unfortunately in Information technology field it is not considered an Essential Role. If you are an experienced professional, you should invest some time to mentor young professional/entrepreneur. Its not a completion for you.
A mentor is a person like a Coach in the Cricket team. He/She will constantly analyse your strengths/weakness and progress. With no personal strings attached, a frank advice is natural. One may not like it . But in the long run it will prove valuable.
We wish you all the Best and sincerely hope that you find a Right Mentor.
We are committed to helping IT professionals across the world find meaningful career advice from IT experts and professional career coaches. A good IT career coaching service could be vital to your success in bringing your career back on to a growth path, in switching jobs/careers, or even in just expanding your horizons.
Career coaching is a process in which an experienced coach partners with you in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires you to maximise your personal and professional potential.
* Discovering, clarifying, and aligning with what you want to achieve
* Encouraging self-discovery
* Eliciting solutions and strategies
* Putting you in charge of your career
The process helps you dramatically improve your outlook towards work and life, while improving your leadership skills and unlocking your potential.
A mentor is a person who can support, advise and guide you. They typically take the time to get to know you and the challenges you’re facing and then use their understanding and personal experience to help you improve.
This relationship is additional to a manager or boss and benefits from a more personal and confidential structure. Mentors have the potential to become lifelong friends, or the relationship might only last until you have achieved a goal, there is no one size fits all.
It is a fantastic way to foster your personal development and to maximise continuous learning.
While a mentor can provide invaluable support and guidance across a range of topics including mental health, they are not a therapist. It is important to establish this to all parties participating in mentoring.
A mentor is not the same as a coach. Coaches are paid for and provide time-bound teaching on specific topics.
Mentoring is not a magic cure. While mentoring can support a range of development goals and has many benefits for both parties and organisations, it is not going to fix everything. There are many complementary ways to develop your people alongside mentoring.
At times it can be frustrating for talented IT professionals such as yourself by not to get a chance to showcase your skills before an interviewer simply because they lack an exact fit against a job description. If you feel that you are in a rut with your career, there is a way to get out of it, but it may require the help of a professional to get there.
You may find plenty of career advice out there on the web. But often such advice is only helps you progress to a limited extent beyond which you have more specific requirements that you’re not sure how to address. And that is where career coaching can really help you. A career coach can act as your mentor, helping you identify crucial blind spots that affect your career growth, and guiding you towards achieving your career goals.
Many IT professionals might know the solutions to their career challenges, but ultimately or unknowingly never implemented them because they did not give them the right priority and time. The best part about having a career coach and attending coaching sessions is that it helps you hold yourself accountable to the career-related tasks that you have been procrastinating time and again.
We are committed to helping IT professionals across the world find meaningful career advice from IT experts and professional career coaches. A good IT career coaching service could be vital to your success in bringing your career back on to a growth path, in switching jobs/careers, or even in just expanding your horizons.
Experimenting with your career without proper guidance may put your future career prospects at risks. Unlike your friends or colleagues, a career coach has no prior knowledge of you, and is therefore able to objectively analyse your career challenges from multiple viewpoints before recommending ideas that are optimised for your career progress. That means, you will get your ideas evaluated, and you will get real time feedback and guidance from your coach / mentor about how to implement them and keep moving forward.
IT Sector is expanding fast and is going through challenging times. Employability and acquiring good placement is always a challenge for Freshers as well as experienced professionals. Despite challenging times in Global Landscape IT sector still offers many Career Opportunities Globally.
IT as a career option has many challenges as it is a different field. There is no Job Security, constant technology upgrade makes usefulness of the professional a real challenge. With all these advancements, as a student of IT one should understand various career paths and the career ladders which will be available in the future for them. It is required to understand the skill set to choose a particular career path, International Certifications which could add value to the career, importance of a good, innovative project experience, the current technological trends.
Future ahead looks scary. AI, Big Data/Analytics and Robotics will definitely reduce many jobs not only in Service, Manufacturing but also in core tech sector. At the same time new job roles will emerge. But are you ready for it? For being relevant all the time in next 5-10 years, one needs to innovate, think like an entrepreneur and drive customer satisfaction all the times.
At times it can be frustrating for talented IT professionals such as yourself by not to get a chance to showcase your skills before an interviewer simply because they lack an exact fit against a job description. If you feel that you are in a rut with your career, there is a way to get out of it, but it may require the help of a professional to get there.
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