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Can’t decide on a career? Don’t worry. You’re not alone. According to The Bureau of Labor Statistics, individuals held “an average of 10.8 jobs from ages 18 to 42” throughout their professional career, with over 60% of those job changes taking place between the ages of 18-27.

The importance of mentorship for professional growth

Mentorship can undoubtedly be an important way to offer support to someone and radically affect their life. At the same time, this mentorship can help create stronger bonds between mentors and mentees beyond hierarchical relations.

Nilesh Arnaiya – Meet the Mentor

Nilesh is one of our most experienced mentors. With almost two years on the platforms, he has held dozens of mentees’ hands during their journey and knows exactly what it takes to break down a big goal in digestible pieces.

A three step guide to finding a great UX mentor

Finding a UX mentor is one of the best ways to sharpen your design skills and speed up your progress. Having “been there and done that” before you, UX mentors use their professional experience to take you under their wing, put you through your paces, and answer any questions you have along the way.

Getting Started As A Developer? 6 Ways A Coding Mentor Can Help You Be A Better Programmer

Similar to coaches (though not the same), mentors are a great way to sharpen your skills and add valuable knowledge to your repertoire.

The secret to finding your “Aha” moment

It may sound easy. All of us do (and we have several “Aha” moments) - but yet only 10% succeed with the right one !

How Integrating a Mentorship Program into Your Startup Can Drive Success

For startups and entrepreneurs, the journey to growth can be a rocky one. When you work with people who have been there, done that, you can learn from their struggles and successes. That’s what makes mentorship so important — especially in startup culture.

Three Ways to Get Hired During COVID 19 in the Salesforce Ecosystem

Professionals and students who have lost their jobs are (understandably) experiencing a lot of uncertainty and panic when it comes to their employment prospects, especially for students who will be graduating during the coronavirus pandemic hit or people who have lost their job because of it, one thing is clear: Getting hired now isn’t going to be that easy.

8 tips to learn and improve your web development skills more efficiently

Development is one of the most exciting and interesting fields to break into. It provides a constant feeling of having learned so much, and yet still having so much left to learn!

5 Ways To Influence Your Your Career Path as a UX Designer

Combining creativity with a wealth of technical skill, UX designers are responsible for making software, websites and apps work for people. And, as a result, they’re some of the most sought-after workers in today’s tech-driven world.

What's The Difference Between Mentoring and Coaching - Let's Clear Things Up

Every now and then, we all hit a rough patch in our careers. The work becomes monotonous, our growth rate flattens out, and we just aren’t sure how to shake things up in a meaningful, productive way. But the good news is, you don’t have to know how.

5 Best Freelance Platforms To Launch Your Developer Career

Anyone who’s spent any amount of time looking for developer work online, has likely heard freelancing platforms both praised and condemned. And, like most things, there are bits of truth here and there. But to help you more accurately weigh your options, we’ve listed a few of the pros and cons of using a freelancing platform, followed by five of our favorite freelancing platforms for programmers.

How to easily make an existing Django app up to 3x faster

Django might not be the most trendy framework to use anymore, but it’s insanely stable, extendable and has an active community around it. That, and simply because I am able to build stuff with it fast, I used it to build my app MentorCruise.com. After 2.5 years and a few ten thousand more rows in the database, things started to get sluggish though. Here’s how I solved that.

What Does A Typical Machine Learning Career Path Look Like And How Can You Get Started?

Machine learning is one of the most exciting careers in the world of computer science. But it’s also a little misunderstood.

IT Job Resume Format - How To Highlight Your Skills And Get Hired

Whether you’re new to the industry or a veteran in search of pastures new, creating or updating your resume is the first step in taking your career forward.

4 Important Ways That Getting A Data Science Mentor Can Help You Fast Track Your Career

Data science is one of the highest searched-for terms in tech today. Just as software engineering and app development have had explosive growth, data science looks tipped to take the tech market by storm — and the numbers back it up.

6 High Demand (and High Paying) IT Skills To Focus Your Development On In 2020

If you’ve suddenly got a bit more time on your hands, it could be the perfect time to upskill yourself in the world of work.

Hui Xiang Chua – Meet the Mentor

Based in Singapore, Hui has built deep expertise in statistics and analytics, which led her to become a professional in Data Science. As a mentor, she wants to build the confidence of people who are in the same shoes as she was, and help them break into the Data Science field

A handpicked collection of the best resources to learn JavaScript

At MentorCruise, we offer 70+ mentors right now who can help you with JavaScript. There are tons of resources out there to start and it can be hard to filter through all the content that is not worth your time. So, whether you are starting your journey into JS or have been on it for some time: This is where to go.

Career Change to Tech: What you should know

On the search of more challenges, career prospects, innovation or simply a salary bump, more adults are looking to change careers nowadays. While not always easy, it’s often worthwile to start an attempt. This is what you should know beforehand.

Keith Brewster – Meet the Mentor

Keith is a professional senior engineer with experience from working at small-town product shops to large big-city corporations. But his history is a lot longer: Before he entered Tech at 26, he was working in restaurants, customer service and other temporary jobs. How Keith got into tech as a second career, and how he can help you reach your goals.

Looking to establish a career in technology? Here's a rundown of what you need to know

Tech is one of the most challenging, inspiring and dynamic industries in the world. Renowned as the mecca of research and innovation, its constantly evolving landscape has paved the way for some incredible inventions — from self-driving cars to drones landing on Mars — and has made it a hotbed for talented graduates and professionals looking to reach their potential.

Raffaele Miele — Meet the Mentor

Raffaele Miele has been a mentor on MentorCruise for almost all of its existence. Furthermore, he describes himself as being a life-long mentor. In this post, we talk to one of our earliest and most experienced mentors about his background, mentoring style and experience.

How I migrated my site from Google App Engine to Netlify

This post will share my experiences, tools and resources used when migrating deletemydata.io from Google App Engine (GAE) to Netlify. This migration was completed in 7 days from inception to complete switch over.

How to start a mentorship in the right way

It’s the much-dreaded blank-paper-problem, the start of it all when you are exchanging these first initial crucial messages. Starting a mentorship takes leadership and courage and is often the base of productive collaboration.

Why it is so important to have a mentor when looking to switch careers

Mentorship has managed to become a popular and important aspect of the business world. Being able to receive advice from someone who is more experienced than you are on a career path you’ve chosen can help you solve some of the more difficult problems at work. Connecting formally with a professional who’s been involved in the career path of your choice can help make you adjust and improve on your own career.

"My mentor was a game-changer for me"

Peyton was a logistics analyst for the Department of Defense for over four years. After a deployment to Afghanistan, he realized that this wasn’t what truly fulfilled him longterm and after a few steps back at home, he was looking to get into Tech. How Peyton took full use of a new mentorship platform, and evolved himself into a talented Full-Stack Developer.

Learn Web Development with Courses recommended by our mentors

Having a team of almost 200 mentors can come in handy when you are looking for a great set of resources. We asked our community: Which are your favourite web development courses – and they replied. Here are some of our favourite picks.

Top Books to get started in Machine Learning

The internet is filled with technical resources that help beginners pick up a new topic, and Machine Learning is no exception there. It’s filled so much, it’s hard to distinguish good resources from bad, and create a good roadmap of resources. We’ve put together a list of resources for your first step in ML together with our mentors, and are excited to share it.

The future of personal coaching and mentorship

At MentorCruise, we do our best to connect people in need of some guidance with a suiting mentor for a longterm professional relationship. In fact, this year we increased our average mentorship length from 30 to 50 days. That’s a small success, but we know that it can be better.