How do you find a mentor?

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With a mentor detector

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You can't. They have to find you. In other words, someone has to be interested enough to care about mentoring you. It has to be organic.

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What D1 said. Or I think there is a place on the HR site to formally request one.

For me it was pure luck

Thank you D3. Reaching out to somebody and asking them to be your mentor is not realistic at all. Find a senior person you've worked with and/or developed a relationship with and just casually talk to them about work/careers/life and let it grow. And FYI OP, when I say "senior" I just mean somebody with more life experience. Could be somebody just 5 years older than you or 35 years older..there's no rules.

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