So You Think You Need a Mentor...
When searching Google for the value of a mentor, it's easy to find many opinions on the matter. Most of them talk about how indispensable a mentor is to the success of your career. It's been researched and discussed many times over and the conclusion is almost always the same: mentors are hugely valuable! They can point you in the right direction, help you avoid costly errors, push you when times get tough, and support you in the things you do. ... But what about when you don't have a mentor? Or what about when someone you consider a mentor has roughly the same amount of experience as you? What happens when you're the most senior person in the organization? One obvious answer to that is to seek external mentors and spend a bit more time networking to find them, but what if you want on-the-job mentorship? What happens then? Over the course of my career, I've met people with a variety of opinions on mentors. Some don't see the value in them and others want on-