Questions
1: Many organisations provide a professional mentoring service to their new graduates or employees. This can take the form of personal mentoring, where a senior employee mentors a new or junior member of staff. How do you think that you could benefit from having mentor during the initial years of your professional employment?
2: Provide details of 2 activities that you are going to undertake as part of your professional career planning. These might include attending ACS events, subscribing to professional publications, gaining accreditation in specific technical areas, or any others that you would like to undertake. For each activity, describe how you believe that this will progress your professional career.
Answers
1. Mentors help in building the professional career. When an individual takes the first entry in the organization he needs a people who can guide them for the initial phases. Mentor helps in building the leadership skills. They help in developing the motivation within the individual. This helps the individual for becoming a better employee and a team member. Mentors help in improving the communication skill. Communication skill is one of the significant skills that help in getting success within the organization. They teach you about the things that are needed to know and also provides the advise for gaining the require knowledge. Mentors also give valuable advice that helps to progress in the professional career (Niehaus and O’Meara 2015). They helps in guiding as well as acts as a sounding board for the ideas which helps in deciding for the best course of action in the most difficult situations. They also help to learn the innovative perspectives. New things can be learned from the mentors as they are having the experiences and these experiences after they share it with you also enhance the knowledge and experience of the mentee. Mentors also help in building the network. Building the network is very much important for the individual (Pololi and Evans 2015). The mentors can help in expanding the network of the professional career which is very much important for striving in the organization. They also help in advancing your career. They helps to stay focus and helps you to be in the track of your career by providing the necessary advice, development of skills and improving the networking.
2. Professional career can be developed by attending the event organized by ACS. The meeting is organized for chemists, academicians, engineers and other professional individuals. The meeting highlights the significance advancement of research in various domains like engineering, business and IT skills. They discover the new research and helps in publishing the work. This helps the professionals to get their work published and they can also know about the shortcomings of their research. ACS helps in advancing the professional career. In the national meeting of ACS they help the individual to connect to the potential employer at the time of Career Fair. They help to improve the skill by taking short courses and by participating to a workshop. Each facet of ACS meeting offers you the potential opportunity for advancement in the career (Sachdeva, Blair and Lupi 2016). It also gives you the opportunity to have a network with the peers. Networking is significant for the professional career. Thus ACS events can help in the growth of the professional career.
The second way of having the development in the professional career is by gaining accreditation in the technical areas. Accreditation helps in encourage the improvement of the work quality. It also improves the enrolment of individuals both in quantity and quality. In technical areas it is needed to have knowledge in the practical areas (Shadolt 2016). The knowledge could be gained by gaining accreditation in those areas then only the practical knowledge could be obtained by the individual.
Reference List
Niehaus, E. and O’Meara, K., 2015. Invisible but essential: The role of professional networks in promoting faculty agency in career advancement. Innovative Higher Education, 40(2), pp.159-171.
Pololi, L.H. and Evans, A.T., 2015. Group peer mentoring: an answer to the faculty mentoring problem? A successful program at a large academic department of medicine. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 35(3), pp.192-200.
Sachdeva, A.K., Blair, P.G. and Lupi, L.K., 2016. Education and training to address specific needs during the career progression of surgeons. Surgical Clinics of North America, 96(1), pp.115-128.
Shadbolt, N., 2016. Shadbolt review of computer sciences degree accreditation and graduate employability: April 2016.
