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FREE Resources
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
Articles
How to Find a Mentor - For You!
The wonderful thing about taking on a new challenge at any point in your life
is that there is no end to what you may accomplish. Guidance is critical to
help you chart a path and stay on it. Guidance from a trusted source who
has been through challenges and persevered is necessary to help you stay
the course during challenging times and not wander over to the same dreary
path you have traveled before. Habits are hard to break. Mentors will be
able to look objectively at your progress and offer a fresh perspective without
the bias of your past experiences.
The problem with staying with something predictable is that it may become a
deterrent to your happiness if what is predictable is not productive or healthy
for you. If you have been in a bad job or a bad relationship for a while, your
self-confidence has been depleted. Your sense of normalcy has crept lower
everyday so that you find that you doubt yourself, you don’t see a brighter
future, and you figure you might as well just accept your situation because it
has become “normal” to you. In a way, you forget who you are and submit to
being a bystander in your own life.
How to Find a Mentor for YOU:
1. Find someone with a similar history. Look for someone that has done
what you want to accomplish, maybe not on the grandest scale but who has
consistently succeeded with innumerable challenges. Look for this person
in a company similar to yours that is not a competitor. Look in professional
organizations where people with your similar goals meet to share ideas and
grow. But also look in non-traditional places. You may find them at your
church, book group, local pool or gym. If you are seeking guidance on
starting a business, governmental agencies such as the Small Business
Administration (SBA) or Service Core of Retired Executives (SCORE) may be
helpful.
2. Find someone who is interested in helping you. The person holding the
greatest success story in the world will not amount to anything for you if he or
she does not have time to meet with you and guide you. Spend time talking
with potential mentors to find the right fit.
3. Look online for similar stories. Someone in another city may be
available to help you via the Internet but this does not substitute for someone
with whom you can meet with face to face. People in other cities, though,
may not be as fearful that you will be a competitor of theirs.
4. Set up a lunch with a potential mentor. Generally this will be someone
that you have already met and with whom you have a good feeling. If there is
someone you have identified as a good potential mentor, and you run into
him or her at a social or professional gathering, introduce yourself and
share your admiration of her success. It is often good to find a mentor within
a company in which you may be seeking to work.
5. Send creative instruments of gratitude often. If people do something
nice for you, you can never thank them enough. Send your mentor a card on
Boss’s Day that may say, “I know you are not my boss but you have been a
valued teacher and trusted example of success in my life.” Send an
interesting book that you think he would enjoy. Ask what his or her birthday
is and have flowers delivered on that day. Send a homemade treat at
Thanksgiving with a note that expresses your gratitude.
When will you begin your search for a mentor? Start now!
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance" by clicking here.
Follow Mary Lee's career tips on Twitter.com at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Articles: “It’s Not Who You Know It’s Who knows You” and
“Goals Are the First Steps to Results” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice expert who went from being a stay-at-
home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then on to become a
newspaper reporter, trade association executive director, public relations
consultant, and foundation president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career
tips, worksheets and Blog on her website at www.startingovernow.com.
Contact Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
The wonderful thing about taking on a new challenge at any point in your life
is that there is no end to what you may accomplish. Guidance is critical to
help you chart a path and stay on it. Guidance from a trusted source who
has been through challenges and persevered is necessary to help you stay
the course during challenging times and not wander over to the same dreary
path you have traveled before. Habits are hard to break. Mentors will be
able to look objectively at your progress and offer a fresh perspective without
the bias of your past experiences.
The problem with staying with something predictable is that it may become a
deterrent to your happiness if what is predictable is not productive or healthy
for you. If you have been in a bad job or a bad relationship for a while, your
self-confidence has been depleted. Your sense of normalcy has crept lower
everyday so that you find that you doubt yourself, you don’t see a brighter
future, and you figure you might as well just accept your situation because it
has become “normal” to you. In a way, you forget who you are and submit to
being a bystander in your own life.
How to Find a Mentor for YOU:
1. Find someone with a similar history. Look for someone that has done
what you want to accomplish, maybe not on the grandest scale but who has
consistently succeeded with innumerable challenges. Look for this person
in a company similar to yours that is not a competitor. Look in professional
organizations where people with your similar goals meet to share ideas and
grow. But also look in non-traditional places. You may find them at your
church, book group, local pool or gym. If you are seeking guidance on
starting a business, governmental agencies such as the Small Business
Administration (SBA) or Service Core of Retired Executives (SCORE) may be
helpful.
2. Find someone who is interested in helping you. The person holding the
greatest success story in the world will not amount to anything for you if he or
she does not have time to meet with you and guide you. Spend time talking
with potential mentors to find the right fit.
3. Look online for similar stories. Someone in another city may be
available to help you via the Internet but this does not substitute for someone
with whom you can meet with face to face. People in other cities, though,
may not be as fearful that you will be a competitor of theirs.
4. Set up a lunch with a potential mentor. Generally this will be someone
that you have already met and with whom you have a good feeling. If there is
someone you have identified as a good potential mentor, and you run into
him or her at a social or professional gathering, introduce yourself and
share your admiration of her success. It is often good to find a mentor within
a company in which you may be seeking to work.
5. Send creative instruments of gratitude often. If people do something
nice for you, you can never thank them enough. Send your mentor a card on
Boss’s Day that may say, “I know you are not my boss but you have been a
valued teacher and trusted example of success in my life.” Send an
interesting book that you think he would enjoy. Ask what his or her birthday
is and have flowers delivered on that day. Send a homemade treat at
Thanksgiving with a note that expresses your gratitude.
When will you begin your search for a mentor? Start now!
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance" by clicking here.
Follow Mary Lee's career tips on Twitter.com at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Articles: “It’s Not Who You Know It’s Who knows You” and
“Goals Are the First Steps to Results” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice expert who went from being a stay-at-
home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then on to become a
newspaper reporter, trade association executive director, public relations
consultant, and foundation president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career
tips, worksheets and Blog on her website at www.startingovernow.com.
Contact Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
StartingOverNow.com
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| Mary Lee Gannon is interviewed on Mind Your BIZness |
FREE e-book.
Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
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FREE resources on
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* Starting over in
their career or
personal life
* Empty nesters
* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
again
* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
map to success
click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
Mary Lee Gannon's
Book "Starting Over"
will be released in
November of 2009.
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November of 2009.
Look for it in stores or
order it from
Amazon.com.
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Whether your company is in need of better productivity from your workforce, or
you want to build a better network, are starting over, are an empty nester
re-entering the workforce, have been laid-off, or are going through a divorce
there is information here to help you! Learn to take your interests and channel
them into productive goals on a fast track. Reach out of your comfort zone to
achieve proven and practical strategies for success. We invite you to share your
insight, take advantage of the resources here, challenge yourself, and continue
to develop and grow.
For the FREE StartingOverNow E-newsletter, or to contact Mary Lee simply send
an email to: info@startingovernow.com. Share your story.
Make It Fun = Get More Done!
Whether your company is in need of better productivity from your workforce, or
you want to build a better network, are starting over, are an empty nester
re-entering the workforce, have been laid-off, or are going through a divorce
there is information here to help you! Learn to take your interests and channel
them into productive goals on a fast track. Reach out of your comfort zone to
achieve proven and practical strategies for success. We invite you to share your
insight, take advantage of the resources here, challenge yourself, and continue
to develop and grow.
For the FREE StartingOverNow E-newsletter, or to contact Mary Lee simply send
an email to: info@startingovernow.com. Share your story.