Personalized Career Development at Scale | San Francisco
About this event
Mentors play a critical role in developing the next generation of entrepreneurs and tech talent. Too often, people lack access to supportive mentors. This can lead to missed opportunities to build skills, discover career pathways, or create and nurture successful businesses.
Career development is an ill-defined path and it's left up to the employees to navigate their own careers. Women, minorities and introverts suffer most. Moreover, 7 in 10 millennials are disengaged at their jobs, and the average tenure of employees in the Bay Area is 14 months. Lower retention and lost productivity get very expensive.
Studies have shown that millennials' #1 choice of employee benefit is personalized career development, yet companies don't always have ways to effectively offer this at scale. Having a mentor can significantly elevate your professional life at the individual and company level.
Key takeaways:
- How to find a mentor and how to serve as a valuable mentor
- How mentoring can help your L&D strategy as a company
- Hear from those who have been there before about mentorship best (and worst!) practices