IT professional year program

Question 1:

Many organisations provide a professional mentoring service to their new graduates or employees. This can take the form of personal mentoring, where a senior employee mentors a new or junior member of staff. How do you think that you could benefit from having mentor during the initial years of your professional employment?

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Question 2:

Provide details of 2 activities that you are going to undertake as part of your professional career planning. These might include attending ACS events, subscribing to professional publications, gaining accreditation in specific technical areas, or any others that you would like to undertake. For each activity, describe how you believe that this will progress your professional career.

Write about a ½ page on this.

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IT Professional Year Program
Question 1
A mentor is usually a trusted colleague who has more experience and can provide invaluable guidance concerning a career. Many organizations have mentorship programs for new graduates and new employees who have little or no experience at all (Srivastava, 2015). These mentors may or may not work for the same institution.

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