Professional And Educational Mentoring: Opening Doors To Development And Growth

Mentoring is a counseling of students and young professionals/engineers by professors and senior licensed professionals. Mentor helps the mentee or protégé achieve his or her career goals. In today’s modern world many private firms, professional institutions, and public organizations have developed and instituted formal mentoring programs. A successful mentoring program can become the hallmark of an organization’s vibrancy, success, viability and relevance. It helps to assimilate new talent into any organization’s culture. At a professional level it is a proven way to hold onto your best people, build their skills, and create stronger interoffice relationships. Mentoring is a vast topic, and much has been done with it, both in industry and academia, in the past two decades. This paper is an attempt to study and identify what kind of professional guidance young professionals seek these days. A response from group of professionals and engineers was compiled to study the actual needs and demands posed by mentees in this age of fierce competition. It was comprehensively critiqued to conclude the current adopted patterns.