Word: mentored
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Beyond focusing on the particulars of his career path, Gill stressed the importance of finding a mentor on the road to becoming a doctor...
When Meow Yee joined IBM in 1985, she did not receive a mentor, nor was she offered one over the next 20 years. Born in Malaysia and of Chinese origin, Yee was hired as a software developer and advanced to design in-house applications for IBM in Somers, N.Y. But like many other Asians, she felt stuck on a technology track. "There's this perception that technology is what we're good for," she says. "Opportunities are not really given unless you ask for them, and if you're a woman, I guess that's double." She worked hard...
...shuffle. At just 18, she was placed as an intern with Pitney Bowes--a mail-and-document-management company in Stamford, Conn.-- by Inroads, a career-development group for urban minority youths. A member of the black sorority Delta Sigma Theta who worked at Inroads was Jones' first mentor, coaching her on "how to behave in the corporate environment." At Pitney she met Michael Holmes, its African-American director of diversity and at the time a director of Inroads, who also mentored her. The internship continued throughout college and resulted in a job offer for Jones...
...Laursen said. “The naming of the mountains would also serve as identifiers for mountaineers who want to climb the mountains we climbed.” For some, the newly bestowed names have a personal significance. Rennell said he hopes to name one peak after a mentor he had at a scout camp who died shortly before the club undertook its anniversary trek. Scott Powell instructed Rennell as a scoutmaster at Camp Gorsuch in Anchorage, Alaska, but died in a fire at a national Boy Scout jamboree shortly before the group embarked for Kyrgyzstan...
...don’t know, and know that everything you know I gotta know as soon as you know it.” While he’s talking about Brandon’s betting picks, this line is really the rule for the relationship between Brandon and his mentor. At first Brandon is willing to give complete control to Walter, even letting his boss transform him into the flashier, sexier “John Anthony” to boost business. Gradually, he comes to realize that Walter and his company are riding on his success, a process that rides...