08/08/2017

Matching With Mentors

LinkedIn recently introduced a service to help people seeking a mentor in their field

Many young association professionals would benefit from a mentor relationship, but a good mentor is hard to find.

To make finding one easier, LinkedIn recently introduced a  service that helps people looking for a mentor find one in their field. “Initially, LinkedIn has tapped a hand-selected list of potential mentors, who will come up as a list, Tinder-style, to people who indicate that they are interested in getting some mentoring, so that a match might get made,” reports Ingrid Lunden in a post for TechCrunch. “Mentors are given options about who they would prefer to mentor, be it people in their first- and second-degree networks, in their region or their former school.”

Mentors are handpicked for now, but LinkedIn plans to eventually roll out the service to everyone. Once a mentor and mentee are matched, they can begin to message each other, and either side can cut off contact at any point.

Please click here to read the complete article from Associations Now.