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PERSONAL CAREER-PLANNING APPROACHES
One particularly valuable component of your network is mentors. As we covered in
Chapter 6, mentors are at a unique place in their careers where they enjoy helping up-
and- coming professionals to advance in their careers. Mentors can provide the kind of
highly valuable insight about professionalism, career management, and organizational
idiosyncrasies that few others can. Most important, a trusted mentor can provide you
with a level of candor and advice about and for you that can make you a better person
and professional. This kind of relationship assumes there is a great deal of mutual
respect and openness between mentor and mentee. Such a relationship does not occur
immediately and must be cultiv