UXPA Panel on Mentorship

I was invited to share shared my thoughts about mentorship in this UXPA panel after completing a couple rounds of formal mentoring through their program (highly recommend!).

My two suggestions for someone wondering if mentorship would be valuable for them (shared at 22:17):

• Mentorship can be used to help you learn how to use mentorship. If you don’t know how set career goals or can’t articulate where you want to be next year or 5 years from now in your career, a mentor can help get you in a position to have more focused goals for more focused future mentorship. You don’t know what you don’t know, and mentorship helps expose that more than anything else if you’ll let yourself be honest in the mentoring relationship.

• Having an intentional career is a luxury and a privilege that few have. I consider mentorship an important way of showing respect to the privilege of having career options and good career options. We hear a lot about having a work ethic, but I also believe it is important to have an ethical approach to work wherein you honor your opportunities to build a sustainable career that many around the world would never be able to dream of having.