How do I find a engineering mentor?

Find somebody that might be invested in you in some way, shape, or form. Talk to someone in your professional association. Go back to your alumni association and more importantly your engineering alumni association if they have an engineering alumni association. Look for people in your field.

How do I find a legitimate mentor?

Here are a few tips on how to find a mentor:

  1. Know What You’re Looking for in a Mentor.
  2. Join a Mentorship Platform.
  3. Reach Out to Your Existing Network.
  4. Go to Professional Networking Events.
  5. Find an Industry Meetup.
  6. Attend Volunteer Events or Social Clubs.
  7. Use Social Media.
  8. Have a Goal for Your Mentorship.

What can I expect from an engineering mentor?

Mentors will share best practices, code quality, testing, refactoring, and how those relate to our engineering career framework. A mentee’s promotion is a sign of success! A mentor’s goal is to grow mentees technically, and promotions are one (but of course not the only) way that growth shows up.

What is IEEE mentor?

The IEEE Mentoring Program is an online program which facilitates the matching of IEEE members for the purpose of establishing a mentoring partnership. By volunteering as a mentor, members use their career and life experiences to help other IEEE members in their professional development.

What to talk to a mentor about?

Questions to Ask a Mentor

  • What’s the best advice you can give to help plan a career rather than simply work to keep a job?
  • How do you encourage innovative ideas?
  • How would you describe your personal style?
  • Do you have a mentor?
  • What do you do to constantly challenge your underlying beliefs and assumptions?

What should I ask an engineering mentor?

What do you talk about in a mentor meeting?

In a mentoring meeting, it’s important to put an emphasis on learning about one another. Discuss personal and professional history in order to establish a common ground. You can also talk about topics centered around leadership, situational advice and skills.

Should you pay for mentorship?

As a general rule, you can expect to pay your mentor a little less than they might charge with their regular consultancy fees. This is because mentorship also offers benefits to the mentors themselves, above and beyond any money they might bring in. With that said, don’t expect mentors to come cheap, either.