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NEOISF - On Mentoring Future Techies
The document discusses the importance of mentorship, especially for junior developers. It provides guidance on how to be a great mentor, including setting expectations, goals, encouraging questions, giving feedback, and pushing mentees out of their comfort zone. Mentorship is a two-way street that can benefit both parties. Finding mentors can come from within one's company, community events, conferences, or formal programs.
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NEOISF - On Mentoring Future Techies
- 1. We make aliving by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill
- 2. BRINGING UP OUR FUTURE ONMENTORING FUTURE TECHIES SARAH “SADUKIE” DUTKIEWICZ CLEVELAND TECH CONSULTING
- 3. What is amentor? • Experienced and trusted adviser • Someone who can offer guidance and advice in achieving a goal in life
- 4. A mentor issomeone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you. - Bob Proctor
- 5. On Future Techies •Early part of my career, mentored 10-15 junior developers • At the Software Guild, over 200 junior devs mentored August 2014 – December 2017 • All walks of life • Young and right out of high school • Older and pursuing a second or third career • No prior technical experience • Senior developers who know older technologies and want to learn newer ones • Currently, mentoring in the tech community
- 6. When you reallywant something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it. - Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”
- 7. Mentorship is a 2way street Ada Lovelace & Charles Babbage
- 8. Encourage multiple mentors •Multiple expertises • Multiple perspectives
- 9. Lessons from the Field How tobe a Great Mentor, especially for Junior developers
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- 11. Set Expectations •What toexpect from the mentor relationship? •Availability? •Focus? •Off-limits discussions?
- 12. Set SMARTER Goals •Specific • Measurable • Actionable • Realistic • Timely • Exciting • Relevant
- 13. One of the greatestgifts you can give anybody is the gift of your honest self. - Fred Rogers
- 14. Trust and respect,until burned
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- 21. Demystify Questions • Whatdo they mean when they say authorization vs authentication? • What is a red team? A blue team? A black hat? A white hat? • Why do people ask about how many piano tuners are in an area? • Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
- 22. Don’t be afraidto say “I don’t know”
- 23. Give a mana fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb
- 24. Importance of Feedback •Positive reinforcement • Constructive criticism - actionable
- 25. Listen & Support •Troubles • Work/life balance • Guidance on how to survive conflict • Encourage speaking up • Encourage documentation
- 26. Push them out oftheir comfort zone!
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- 33. Addressing Impostor Syndrome BartSimpson and The Simpsons are © 20th Century Fox Film Corp.
- 34. Common Triggers ofImpostor Syndrome • New situations • Unpopular situations • High stress situations
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- 40. Finding a Mentor ThisPhoto by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC
- 41. Search for rolemodels you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important warning: you don't have to have mentors who look like you. Had I been waiting for a black, female Soviet specialist mentor, I would still be waiting. Most of my mentors have been old white men, because they were the ones who dominated my field. - Condoleeza Rice
- 42. Finding mentors • Withina company • Boss • More experienced colleague on a project • Formal mentoring program • Outside a company • Networking via community engagements • Conferences • User Groups • MentorNet • Mentoring.org • Locally! • Cleveland Tech Slack - #mentoring channel cleveland-tech .slack.com
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- 45. Twenty years fromnow you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Editor's Notes
- #3 While it is one thing to learn from videos or blog posts, it is a different experience when you have someone to turn to that can answer the questions you have when you have them. It makes a world of difference to be able to ask someone “What do they mean when they say ‘inheritance vs. interfaces’?” When you have someone who forces you to think about what it is you want in life and what steps you may need to take to get there… someone who can make introductions and offer direction… it makes your career and life a little less scary and a lot more manageable. In this session, we will look at some practices that are used by great mentors in the field and learn lessons on how we can be great role models and mentors for our future – junior developers!
- #4 Additional Reading: * What is a Mentor and Roles of the Mentor and Mentee: http://www.oycp.com/mentortraining/3/m3.html
- #8 Image and notes from http://www.historyandwomen.com/2012/09/augusta-ada-byron-countess-of-lovelace.html
- #9 Image taken from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/intvgene/370973576/sizes/z/in/photostream/ * My story – one mentor who was my voice from outside the company and who saw a lot of potential in me. He also encouraged me to grow in my tech career. Another mentor helps me focus on the business side, asking me the tough questions that I don’t like getting asked but still think about – “What is the direction you want to go? Why? Where do you see yourself in {x amount of time}?”
- #10 Picture: http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson678.html
- #11 Picture from: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/23/35635683_3868784c96_z.jpg
- #15 Agile Summer Camp, 2008 ---- The story of trusting and respecting apprentices
- #16 Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scale_of_justice_2.svg Story: ORMs and anti-ORMs Go unbiased Don’t let personal opinions sway protégés – such as anti-programming language or framework due to personal preference
- #17 Image taken from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29224712@N08/4436827429/ Fresh set of eyes Story: Rich Woodland, take intern’s curiosity and ran with it; reunion
- #18 Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/faelchon/15146022
- #19 Playing to strengths and strengthening where they are weak – even if it means recommending another mentor Picture: http://www.jobcluster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Strengths-and-Weaknesses.jpg
- #20 Nourish the stomach and the soul. A lot of important conversations can be had while out of the office and over a meal.
- #21 Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128454566@N06/15893429463/sizes/l
- #22 Picture of White Spy from Spy vs Spy, Mad Magazine;
- #23 Don't expect to remember things right away - and don't be afraid to ask for help if you do forget things. Google is your friend, as can be Stack Overflow. Teammates are good for that too, if you want the human interaction.. Picture: https://wasabiway.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/questions-to-ask-yourself.png
- #27 Picture: https://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeloop2013/9850506636/sizes/l Story of being encouraged to present and how it led here
- #28 Image source: http://michaelhindes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/13677922-hand-holding-a-3d-personal-development-sphere-on-white-background.jpg
- #29 Picture from: http://dleatherman.wikispaces.com/file/view/Career_Path_040609c.jpg/266533616/Career_Path_040609c.jpg
- #30 We all take different paths
- #31 OuterBanks 2011
- #32 Victoria Park, Hong Kong, 2010
- #33 Monument, London, 2005
- #34 The "fake it until you make it" mantra, sadly, works in the beginning. The more you do something, the more you will realize that you've got it, and the more your confidence will come in and the impostor syndrome will fade away (until the next episode).. . And by the beginning, I mean the beginning of whatever project or technology or tool you're exploring. It'll keep coming in bouts, but the more you're in the field, the less it will appear.. Some let the impostor part really slow them down and get self-conscious about it. I used to be like that. But then I had a mentor who really helped me find my voice and my self-confidence, which has helped a ton.. Image borrowed from: https://recoverynetworktoronto.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/i-will-not-obey-the-voices-in-my-head-bart-simpson/
- #37 And if you're like many of my apprentices - past and present - don't let a blank application stare you down and scare you. Don't let that blank screen intimidate you. It's natural to have that fear of not knowing where to start. We go back to past applications or other people's code to help inspire us and steer us in the right direction to get past that.
- #40 Image source: http://www.texasenterprise.utexas.edu/sites/texasenterprise.utexas.edu/files/Gender-Diversity_iStock_000018936378Small.jpeg
- #43 Additional Reading: All about Mentoring Programs: http://worldeducationsystems.com/adult-education/all-about-mentoring-programs/ Background image: http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/moodle/files/2014/10/feedback.jpg
- #45 Microsoft’s mission – and one that we as mentors can learn from and strive for. This was taken at the Microsoft Visitor Center, Redmond, WA on November 2, 2015.
- #46 More on this quote: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/29/you-did/