How to Find a Mentor in a Virtual World
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Here's your money briefing for Friday, February 4th. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. For young professionals, finding a mentor can be a key to getting a foot in the door and finding a path up the career ladder. But those valuable mentorship meetings that once took place at conferences are now, in the pandemic era, happening largely online.
I had the ability to connect with individuals nationwide, worldwide even, and it was limitless.
But getting the attention of a potential mentor through cold calling and messaging isn't easy. In a moment, we'll talk with someone who cracked the code. And our reporter, Ray Smith, will share the preparation that experts say you should do before reaching out to a potential mentor. That's after the break.
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How has the pandemic changed where and how mentorships are found?
It used to be that finding a career mentor meant attending lots of receptions and conferences. But the pandemic has moved that process almost entirely online. And for a lot of people, shaking hands and getting FaceTime with professional leaders has been replaced by sending cold emails and having conversations over Zoom. But that's turned out to be less of an obstacle than you might think. In a moment, we'll meet a young professional in the medical field who found her mentor through social media. But first, we're joined by WSJ reporter Ray Smith, who wrote about the new world of finding a mentor. Hi, Ray. Thanks for being with us. Thank you, JR. So, Ray, just to help us understand the basics here, what are the benefits of a mentorship?
One of the benefits is basically you are getting someone who can show you the ropes of how to navigate either the company or that industry. So that's one of the benefits. Another benefit is you can learn skills and that can be technical skills, but also some social skills or soft skills on how to navigate everything from office politics or just relationships in general. And in some cases, you can get career advice, too.
So now we've seen that mentoring has moved almost entirely online since the onset of the pandemic. But is virtual mentoring something new?
I'm glad you asked that. It's called e-mentoring in some corners. And e-mentoring has been around for a while before the pandemic. But the pandemic made demand for it increase and use of it increase as people could not be physically in person, especially during COVID. the early days of the pandemic when a lot of us were working remotely. So that made a lot of companies and a lot of players in this industry sort of switch to e-mentoring or online mentoring or virtual mentoring.
So, you know, Ray, it must be kind of awkward to develop a relationship with an established person in a professional field when you don't really have the luxury of an in-person experience.
It can certainly be awkward in a number of ways. I mean, you're essentially cold calling people virtually, whether it's through email or by sliding into their DMs on Instagram or Twitter. And DMs are direct messages that you can send to someone.
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