Develop your career with a mentor

The team behind PLD, who provide our mentoring platform software, explain the many benefits of being a mentee when you're trying to meet a professional goal, and why you should consider signing up to our career development mentoring scheme.

We live in an age where there's a never-ending stream of advice, opinions and expertise at our fingertips. We can find expert videos, blogs and articles all at the click of a mouse and offline there are books, newsletters and magazines. In truth trying to cut through the sheer volume of advice and information can be exhausting and confusing!

More and more of us are now turning to mentors for experienced advice to help us achieve stronger performance.

What benefit will mentoring have?

According to a statistic from Forbes, employees with a mentor are five times more likely to be promoted than those without, while mentors themselves get promoted six times more often than those who aren't mentors.

Mentors are important in facilitating career mobility and professional fulfillment. They can provide a unique perspective and advice, and can make the difference between a promising business candidate and a successful one. Those fortunate enough to have benefitted from good mentors know this instinctively to be true.

Mentoring can make an impact, and positively influence career advancement by:

• Fostering skills development
• Promoting mentees within an industry
• Increasing the mentee's confidence levels and aspiration to higher levels of success
• Providing a role model
• Ensuring resources are used wisely, especially time
• Inspiring and supporting making sure full potential is reached

Mentoring plays a particularly important role in advancement of young professionals. They may be reluctant to ask for assistance and thus may not develop the skills and tools necessary for advancement. So what are you waiting for? Start improving your performance today and find your mentor.

In this rapidly changing world it’s important to be self-aware and plan for your career. Although plans can change and flexibility is a key advantage in the current job market, knowing your strengths and areas where you need improvement and the general direction you would like to take are key elements to success. This is where a mentor can help.