The Benefits of Mentoring for Your Career and Job Placement

Written by Paulo Nogueira

Published on 01/03/2021 at 09:20

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Professional mentoring works on the individual’s career moment. Many times, I come across professionals who face the so-called “glass ceiling,” meaning they have done everything they could at a certain point in their career, but still want to progress, and that’s why they seek the next level.

Some may rely on the support of a mentor, a professional who has more experience than they do, who has reached the top of their market and can truly help those starting their journey. In a mentoring session, it’s possible to develop a more attractive vision of the future, resolve conflicts regarding the desired change, align goals, and, above all, help believe in oneself and one’s abilities.

Who is this process applied to? Normally, it is for those who are at a career decision moment and do not know what the next step is.

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Where to Look for Mentoring?

A large part of my consultations comes from Sebrae, due to my experience as a facilitator of Empretec — a methodology from the United Nations (UN) that seeks to develop entrepreneurial behavior characteristics and identify new business opportunities — which allowed me to travel all over Brazil to provide consulting for entrepreneurs.

After this experience at Sebrae, I decided to go out on my own and set up my company, Global Mentoring Group, and today I am in Lisbon to conduct these trainings in Portugal as well. Although I really enjoyed the Empretec program and it provided me with good financial gain, I was seeking more and eventually managed to achieve my goals.

In this way, with my particular example, I became a reference for people so that I can help them make the best decisions before doing something that can often be a rash decision, suddenly, and can end up being mistaken or at the wrong time. With mentoring, you can better prepare for that moment.

Another audience that can also benefit greatly from mentoring is young people who are starting their professional careers. Ideally, they should consult a mentor or advisor even before deciding which course to pursue. We know today that universities as a whole are undergoing significant difficulties. The courses offered today train for a hostile environment that often no longer exists. It is a creation, a indoctrination, for an environment that is already past. It is necessary to think about the future.

Young People Should Seek Professional Mentorship First

If young individuals sought a mentor before starting their professional careers, it would be easier to decide at what point they should proceed. But usually, this does not happen. People only start to worry when they go to look for a job and realize there is a range of new professions, some seeking careers in the public service through exams, while others decide to venture into entrepreneurship. So they end up with a question mark in their minds: “Am I going to be just another one?”.

When someone wants to decide their next step, they can undergo training and make the best decision. Many opt to take the program to learn how to become a mentor themselves and guide others to take the next step. It is not about resolving past issues or emotional pains from already past situations – they will not analyze the reasons why the Mentee is the way they are.

The mentor should not only rely on their experience; it is important that they seek to improve themselves in order to better assist the Mentees in their growth, as well as to seek to enhance their key skills, find sources of continuous motivation, remove mental barriers, and modify problem attitudes and behaviors that reduce their effectiveness.

An effective mentor must see the Mentee as someone with infinite possibilities and with all the resources they need to make changes. Besides realizing that every behavior has a positive purpose: there is no “failure,” everything is feedback.

Claudio Brito is a mentor for mentors and CEO of Global Mentoring Group, an international group focused on high performance in mentoring, based in the United States. Specialized in Digital Marketing by Fecap-SP and Group Dynamics by SBDG, he has 21 years of experience and has trained with masters such as Alexander Osterwalder, Steve Blank, and Eric Ries. In addition, he is a frequent participant in high-impact trainings at Babson, Harvard, and MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To learn more, visit https://globalmentoringgroup.com/ or through @claudiombrito or @globalmentoringgroup

About Global Mentoring Group

The mentoring program from GMG is based on the major global centers of study and development like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and on the startup acceleration processes in Silicon Valley. It consists of structured guidance in which a more experienced professional (mentor) guides a less experienced one (mentee). It is a process of knowledge transfer intended to provoke insights in the mentee and is used both to motivate someone at the beginning of their career and to help those who need to stand out in their current position, a new employee who has just joined a corporation, or a senior professional who is facing or will face new challenges both in and out of the company.

To learn more, visit https://globalmentoringgroup.com/ or through @claudiombrito or @globalmentoringgroup

The Benefits of Mentoring for Your Career and Job Placement

Where to Look for Mentoring?

Young People Should Seek Professional Mentorship First

About Global Mentoring Group

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