Be ‘Mr. Miyagi’ or find one! A talk about the power of mentoring
summary
A personal career narrative claims apprenticeship-style mentoring produces a steep learning curve: on-the-job mentoring plus courses and TMAP certificates turn an overwhelmed junior into a working software engineer. Concrete outcomes include about 50 tournament prizes, national champion and third-in-Europe in karate, a won Dutch workplace-discrimination case, and a career switch to software engineering after an Ordina hire. Cited industry figures show 75% of IT leaders report skill shortages and an estimated $775 billion global loss in 2022; solutions include formal mentoring programs and platforms like codingcoach.io.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and personal story
- 1:29Who is Mr. Miyagi?
- 3:57My first mentor in karate
- 7:53Second mentor in law profession
- 11:54Life changes and new mentors
- 14:21Mentoring in IT career
- 18:35What is mentorship?
- 24:00Duties and qualities of a mentor
- 25:2710 best practices for mentoring
- 32:42IT industry’s mentoring problem
- 38:47Mentoring as knowledge transfer
- 41:01Q&A session
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