Workshop Description: Quality mentoring has a positive impact on research productivity and satisfaction of early career scientists. However, building a mentoring network is challenging for early career scientists. First, there is still a widely perceived idea that there is a need to identify an all knowing mentor to address all mentoring needs, making it difficult to decide who might be a good candidate. Second, although ASPB has an online networking platform to help identify willing mentors, this platform is not widely used. In this workshop we will provide a short overview on networking strategies (including mapping out your mentoring network) and introduce success stories of using the ASPB networking platform. We will also provide a networking opportunity by selecting mentors willing to provide input in different topics.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will identify the areas for which they need support.
Upon competition, participants will map areas of needed support to potential mentors and identify gaps in their mentoring network
Upon completion, participants will learn how to approach potential mentors.