The ins-and-outs of building a career in tech, gaining experience from a mentor, and getting your feet with with coaching.
“A short-term mentorship is like an emergency number you call when you need help to resolve something quickly. Long-term mentorships are more akin to an explorer and sherpa relationship where the sherpa is the expert here to guide the explorer (mentee) down the long path to success.”- Lloyd Jacob
Over two million people apply to work for Google every year. And as one of the world’s leading technology companies, Google hires only the best of the best, making it even more challenging to work for this iconic tech company.
Employers use stress interviews to discern how potential employees will deal with workplace conflict, abusive customers, and overload. These interviews are typically performed by trained experts who use various techniques to assess your personality, as a prospective employee.
I’m very interested in how startups validate their ideas. I’ve mentored nearly 100 startups in one-to-one sessions in the last six months. But I’m finding that actually a huge amount of them barely validate their ideas at all. Or just do it very badly.
Interviews are a necessary evil to get a job or internship, and knowing how to nail them is a prerequisite for standing out. If you don’t prepare well, they can be very stressful. Lack of or incorrect preparation leads to low self-confidence and nervousness that could limit your chances of earning the dream job or internship. So it’s best to be over-prepared for them.
At MentorCruise, we love to hear stories from our mentees. We try to keep in touch with them throughout their time with us to know about all good and bad things they encounter. Mentees will talk about their experience with us, and we are happy to share it!
It’s easy to get stuck in tutorials hell. We tend to overuse one learning source and burn out quickly. I described more ways to improve as a Developer, let’s go through them and sum up an example plan to make sure you have fun while learning.
In many cases, when starting or changing careers, it can be a good idea to look for internships to experience daily life in a job, make first industry connections, and get hands-on experience in a topic.
Sharath joined MentorCruise almost a year ago with the intention to pay it forward. He knows the power and potentially life-changing influence of a powerful mentor and that shows – today, Sharath is one of our top mentors and holds the ‘coach’ status, an exclusive badge for our very best.
Every successful mentorship is built upon a strong mentor-mentee relationship. Embarking on your career is tough, and being mentored can help you achieve your professional goals and objectives in ways you wouldn’t have otherwise expected.