5 Ways A Mentor Can Help You Achieve Career Success

By Perminus Wainaina

Achieving career success depends on your dedication, skills set, and how well you position yourself for your ideal job along with how well you relate with your boss and colleagues.  Having a great mentor can also accelerate your career success because they will give you knowledge on how to go about it as opposed to “flying blind”.

A mentor is someone who is more experienced than you are in a specific area in which you seek guidance. It could also be someone you look up to maybe because they hold a position you would like to hold someday or how they conduct their job.

So what is the importance of a mentor in your career success?

1.You learn from their lessons

As a beginner, you probably have a lot of difficulties you have to face. This is where a mentor comes in, because they are experienced, they help prepare you for those challenges and guide you on how to navigate them.

A mentor will help you by showing you the ropes of the industry for example if you are in the sales industry a good mentor would give you techniques that work.

They are in a better position to guide you because they have been there. They can also help you avoid making mistakes that can delay your career success because they probably made similar mistakes and picked up lessons from them.

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