National Mentoring Day Highlights Importance of Supporting Others’ Career Growth
A mentor can significantly impact your career by sharing their knowledge, providing networking?opportunities, and offering insight to help you—the mentee—navigate your workplace and?industry. National Mentoring Day on Oct. 27 underscores the importance of mentoring for individuals,?whether they’re students, recent graduates, or tenured employees—including those in the C-suite. Launched in the U.K. in 2014, National Mentoring Day became a global event in 2020. It’s held?annually to raise awareness of the many mentoring initiatives, to showcase the benefits of?mentoring, and to encourage individuals to become mentors or mentees.
Mentors can offer suggestions to hone your skills and learn new ones. Nearly half (46%) of?1,041 full-time office workers fear their skills will become obsolete within the next five years as?artificial intelligence reshapes the workplace, according to a 2024 report, Training for the Future of Work , from Kahoot!, a global learning platform based in Oslo, Norway.
Mentors can also help students prepare for their career , and for professionals to prevent?their own careers from stalling . Under reverse mentoring , a younger employee may serve as a?mentor to a senior colleague by providing guidance in digital or other technology-based skills, for example.
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