Finding a mentor to help navigate your career can be positively life changing, but we know it's way easier said than done. And that goes both ways! Finding someone to mentor isn't that easy either.
That's why we're excited to announce our new initiative: mentor matchmaking. We'll be connecting members who are looking to learn, with members who are looking to teach. We'll be doing this manually to start, and evolve the service as we go.
If you're interested in this beta program, please let us know by filling in this new section in your settings and we will be in touch via email. You can also help us by fully filling out your profile (if you have not already) so we can get a sense of your personality.
A few more thoughts:
Mentors don't need to be deep subject matter experts! One of the best ways to reinforce what you know is by teaching others or showing them how you would troubleshoot. Oftentimes, you end up learning together. So if you're on the fence on whether or not you 'qualify' as a mentor, you should go for it.
Mentors can also be mentees! Just because you're mentoring someone in Rails, doesn't mean you can't be a CSS mentee.
We have had extensive demand for this sort of program from folks who saw this as a natural fit for our diverse community and we agreed wholeheartedly. We hope you will also give us feedback to help improve now that it's underway.
Thanks everyone for being a wonderful part of this community. We're so excited to see the collaborations that come out of this.
Top comments (35)
I already filled out mine! 😄
@citizen428 just messaged me about this and that was the catalyst for getting it out this week. We were in agreement but had been sitting on our hands. But @jess had a vision for how this would work and made the PR this morning and now we're live. 🙌
In very early numbers coming in, we have about 25% more people offering than requesting.
Newer devs, this is a great chance to make some awesome connections!
Filled mine out requesting a mentor since I am a new dev!
This sounds awesome. I marked my profile as seeking mentor. Is there something more I need to do to get paired?
This is awesome @jess and @ben ! 💯
This is awesome!!
My feelings on the matter
I just signed up for both! Can't wait to try it out.
32/m/nyc/looking for mentor
am i doing this right?
no but really i am looking for a mentor. thanks for this awesome platform
I only regret that I have but a single unicorn to give. Amazing idea, I have high hopes
This is amazing!
Thanks @jess
Thanks so much for this guy's. Just signed up, hopefully can go from mentee to mentor asap
I bow down to you Jess. Well done and thank you!
Great idea! Love the community on here, there's so much passion for giving and helping others
love this idea 💚