The ins-and-outs of building a career in tech, gaining experience from a mentor, and getting your feet wet with coaching.
Career Growth
Signs You’re Ready for a Career in Digital Marketing
For most people, it takes years to figure out what career is right for them. We all hope that we can find a career that we’re passionate about, gives us a sense of purpose, and pays enough to put food on the table. It can be an encouraging reminder that this process takes time for everyone!
Mentors & Mentees
Mladen Ruzicic – Meet the Mentor
👋 Hello, my name is Mladen. I am a software engineer based in Switzerland, and I have more than ten years of experience in software engineering.
Mladen Ruzicic
Bringing product teams together for the benefit of your business
How to bring a product team to collaborate and align to achieve shared goals
Yoav Farbey
How to pick your next tech role
Picking your next role is an important decision. Here are the three things to consider when picking your next role (spoiler alert: compensation is not one of them)
José Santos
Podcast
Chatting about Startups with Lloyd Jacob
If you’re like the majority of adults and people online right now, you want to build your own business someday. In fact, over 60% of people in their twenties and thirties have this life goal. In reality, a much smaller amount of people actually end up doing it and then even less of those people actually succeed.
Lloyd Jacob
How to Ask Someone to Be Your Mentor
Navigating the professional landscape can be challenging, confusing, and downright scary sometimes! Having a mentor can help to ease some of the uncertainties of the working world while helping you create connections and open doors that might not have been previously available to you.
Is Data Science A Good Career?
We, at MentorCruise, know just how daunting it can be to change careers. Sometimes it’s as easy as changing your mind and applying. Other times, you’ll find yourself doing the research and backing out, because it seems like a frightening change.
The Science of Literature
Of data science and fiction; of numbers and Game of Thrones - the emergence of quantitative methods in literary analysis reveals the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Leoson Hoay
The Lifecycles of Data Science and MLOps
The lifecycles below will guide you from the initial phase of a Data Science project through the project’s successful completion. It will enable you to divide the work within the team, estimate efforts, document all the steps of your project, and set realistic expectations for the project stakeholders.
Cristina Gurguta
How an Agency Can Boost Business Growth and Make Your Life Easier
Learn what to search for and find out how to get a personalized introduction to one of the web's best agencies in my quick and easy guide to using agencies to boost your growth.
Itay Forer
Acing Amazon interview questions
Like in every interview, you need to take the time to prepare, learn what they are looking for, and present yourself in the best way you can.
How to Mentor Remote Workers
Mentoring remote workers is naturally a bit different than mentoring someone in person, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be harder. If you go about it the right way, your mentee will glean tons of valuable knowledge from you regardless of the virtual distance.
Successful mentor matching guide & best practices
Some of history’s most notable leaders have had mentor matching that helped guide them to success. Steve Jobs mentored Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet mentored Bill Gates, and Christian Dior mentored Yves Saint-Laurent.
Experiencing professional growth with the right guidance
Sometimes life throws us a curveball, especially so in our careers. Fast-moving environments, changing priorities and shifting markets can hinder our development as a professional.
Gonçalo Palma
Annalisa Valente – Meet the Mentor
Mentoring is integral to growing your career and becoming a better designer and leader while you share your knowledge with others. Here is my experience with MentorCruise so far.
Annalisa Valente
How to Write Email Marketing Copy That Drives Results
Email Marketing is one of the most effective ways to generate profits. But, if your email marketing copy isn't effective, you'll end up wasting your time and money. This article contains tips which will help you to write better emails.
Yaron Been
Deploying Serverless Services on Kubernetes using Knative
✅ Learn how to deploy your serverless services on Kubernetes using Knative ✅ Build and monitor your own PaaS ✅ Autoscale your app with Knative ✅Serving multiple App versions
Aymen Segni
Saeed Mirshekari – Meet the Mentor
PhD in Physics with 10 years of work experience in Data Science and Machine Learning. Former Researcher at LIGO (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2017).
Saeed Mirshekari
10 Key Mentoring Topics For a Great Experience
Knowing what to talk about in mentorship sessions can be a challenge. Though you want to have focused, meaningful discussions with your mentor, you may feel lost about how to get started.
Exploring product design w/ Rebecca Liu
Design is one of the most popular majors in the world. Yet it is estimated that only 20 to 25% of the graduates ever make their way into the industry. It’s a competitive field with many competitors around.
Rebecca Liu
Starting a new job with more confidence and stronger support
Nelson Remetz has successfully transitioned careers from architecture to UX design. But with the skill building done, there were more hurdles in the way – interviewing and overcoming the first few months in an entirely new job.
Kristen Leake
Breaking into cybersecurity - a beginner study plan to hack your way in the industry
Starting a career in cybersecurity without any experience can feel almost impossible. You can easily become overwheldmed by the hundreds of subtopics, how they relate to each other, and where to begin your learning journey. In this article I am presenting a study plan example that I use as a starting point with my mentees.
Andrei Agape
Neeran Gul – Meet the Mentor
10+ year industry veteran with experience in working with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and open source contributions to Terraform and Ansible.
Neeran Gul
5 Steps Between You and Your First Data-Science Job
Regardless of your background, there are 5 major stages between you and your dream job as a non Data Scientist to a Data Scientist. This note list these stages and provides some tips and tricks for better results in each stage.
(2022) How to Do a Midlife Career Change When You Feel Stuck
Midlife career change typically involves the desire to update your current career experience or simply retrain whenever you’re stuck in your current role.
What I've Learned About Facebook ads after spending more than $5M
Facebook ads are a great way to reach out to potential customers, but they can also be very costly if you don't know what you're doing. I've spent more than five million dollars on Facebook ads, most of it out of my own pocket. And I've learned a lot along the way. Here are 7 tips on how to run Facebook ads without breaking the bank.
Accelerating Startup Growth Through Advisors And Effective Mentorship
For many early-stage startups, their ultimate fate is decided by getting the right connections, advice and access to opportunities at the right time.
Demystifying Product Management with Colleen Graneto
If I ask you right now, what does a product manager do all day? Would you be able to give me a concrete answer? The search term around what a product manager does all day actually gets up to 10,000 hits every month in Google. So we’re taking the time today to talk to a veteran and leader of the industry.
Colleen Graneto
The world of leadership requires change
People want a sense of purpose, and they don't want bosses; they want coaches. How HR-driven leaders compare to CFO-driven leaders and how the Millennial workforce is different from their predecessors.
Philo Hermans
Laura Ma – Meet the Mentor
I have 7+ years of experience in startups fundraising, business strategy, product and pricing strategy, OKR and KPI planning, budgeting, financial projection, product management.
Laura Ma