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How to Find a Mentor and Become One: Mentoring Strategies for Tech Careers

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How to Find a Mentor and Become One: Mentoring Strategies for Tech Careers

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Struggling to find a mentor — or wondering how to become one — in a fast-moving tech career? In this episode, Rahul Jain, a senior solutions engineer and data/AI leader with 15+ years driving enterprise data transformations and a career arc from mining engineering to data engineering and leadership, walks through practical mentoring strategies for tech professionals. We define mentoring (purpose, scope, types), explore early models like Thoughtworks’ sponsorship, and show how to find mentors through networks,.

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