The Magic of Mentorship: Becoming Dumbledore
summary
Argues that regular mentoring discovers and recruits talent — one mentor connection led to an apprenticeship at Bluefruit — by running hands‑on events like Mission To Mars where attendees actually flash an LED on an Arduino and build rovers that demo at week’s end (making a rover go straight for ten seconds is treated as a realistic constraint). Uses Agile practices: stand‑ups, retrospectives and user stories, timeboxed mobbing, Discord/Slack for follow‑up, and short sprints to show progress and surface hireable candidates.
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- 0:00The Magic of Mentorship: Becoming Dumbledore
- 0:25What is mentoring?
- 2:28What problems does
- 3:56Building a network
- 5:58Showcasing your amazing company to new people!
- 8:13ALE BEACH Head Hunting / Talent Scouting
- 9:38THE BEACH Head Hunting / Talent Scouting
- 10:14Hidden opportunities
- 12:28Creating a diverse range of mentors
- 14:17Keeping up to date
- 15:40Why mentoring is important for a mentee?
- 15:53Knowing what industry is like
- 17:23Contacts-in industry
- 19:33Seeing opportunities in the companies that are mentoring
- 22:09Valuable advice
- 22:57Learning new perspectives
- 23:10Agile processes that can used to help mentor!
- 24:20User stories
- 25:44Reaction to change
- 28:24Evolution of processes based on feedback
- 30:01Retrospective
- 31:03Timeboxing tasks
- 32:44Iterations / Sprints
- 34:25Why should you mentor? (Personal benefits!)
- 34:46THE BEACH Improving communication skills
- 35:41Personal satisfaction
