The latest articles on DEV Community by Jhonathan Cavalcante (@jhoncavalcante). https://dev.to/jhoncavalcante https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F397962%2Fa8084a18-284b-44eb-8b99-3416d8899f76.jpg https://dev.to/jhoncavalcante en Jhonathan Cavalcante Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:16:18 +0000 https://dev.to/jhoncavalcante/how-to-find-a-mentor-6b1 https://dev.to/jhoncavalcante/how-to-find-a-mentor-6b1 <p>Lately, I've been stumbling with a lot of videos and posts with a lot of hints for people who are new into the IT world. In the sea of advices, one that is most common is "to find a mentor" in the area that you want to specialize or are interested into follow.</p> <p>It is know that the Technology and Development world is a myriad of paths that sometimes can lead to a a feeling of traveling to nothing. And I think that the advice of having a mentor is a the most important one.</p> <p>A lot of great communities like dev.to where built with a purpose of sharing and reduce the gap of knowledge in those paths, put i still struggle about the essence of finding mentorship. In those resources/channels telling new people in IT to "find a mentor", they abstract the journey to actually finding one. </p> <p>With all of that said, I would like to know about you, have you ever had a mentor or a person that you look as a role model in the IT world? And how you managed to find that/those person(s)? Do you have any real advice about the approach with those persons? </p>