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Starting out as a software developer can be tough.
In your first few years on the job, you’re likely to face a steep learning curve as you work on growing your coding skills and just learning your way around work in the tech industry.
One way to help ease some of those challenges is finding a mentor — someone with more experience who can help teach and guide you as you establish yourself as a software developer
What Is a Mentor?
A mentor isn’t the same thing as a boss or a more experienced colleague you spend time with.
A mentor is someone who is more experienced in a career field (like software development) who sets out specifically to form a relationship with someone less experienced. A mentor helps them learn important job skills and overcome common challenges in the field, but should also become a trusted advisor who can help set them on a path toward grother in all aspects of their life, both career and personal.
A relationship with a mentor should be long-term. And while the less-experienced developer in the relationship will reap the most benefit, a mentor-mentee relationship should be fulfilling for both parties, helping them both grow in different ways.
5 Reasons Why Developers Need Mentors
Teach You Coding Best Practices
Show You Where You Can Improve
Help You Find the Right Resources to Grow
Offer You New Perspectives
Help You Grow Personally
read more at https://www.7pace.com/blog/every-developer-needs-a-mentor
A mentor can help you shape yourself into the best version of yourself.
In Business, almost 90% of CEO's and senior management and 100% of those who are interested in their own professional and personal growth use a mentor and sometimes mentoring teams.
Developers need them too...After all a majority of them have the potential to go on to be the leaders of tomorrow. Mentors can help developers realize that potential
The best gift anyone can get themselves is a good mentor.