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Career Quandaries? Learn How Ivy Exec’s Mentor Network Can Help
1. Career Quandaries? The Mentor Network Can Help
Gayle M. Rigione, Ivy Exec Chief Content Editor
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2. Gayle M. Rigione, Mentor Network Manager
• Co-manages program with Andrea Premate
• Also, Chief Content Editor for Ivy Exec
• 15 years in relationship management and consulting roles
MasterCard International Inc.,
Arthur Andersen Strategic Services (now Accenture)
Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank)
• MBA from Columbia, BA from UCLA
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3. Welcome To The Ivy Exec Mentor Network!
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5. Career Quandaries?
• Are you headed in the right career direction?
• What’s it like on the “other side”…
– Across industry lines?
– In a new function?
– Running your own business?
• How do you get promoted? How do you get that raise?
• Do you lack job search momentum?
• Are you too comfortable in your comfort zone or too afraid
to leave it?
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6. Career Quandaries?
A mentor can help YOU answer
these questions and more!
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7. What Is A Mentor?
Sounding board
Objective listener
Devil’s advocate
Catalyst
Safe zone
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8. Who Are The Ivy Exec Mentors?
All Ivy Exec members
Start-up founders to senior corporate execs
15 -20+ years experience
All volunteers
450+ mentors to choose
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9. Who Are The Ivy Exec Mentors?
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10. Who Are The Ivy Exec Mentors?
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11. Who Are The Ivy Exec Mentors?
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12. How Does It Work?
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13. How Does It Work?
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14. How Does It Work?
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20. Filtering For Topics
Finding that job… Closing the deal…
• Market/Industry Insights • Compensation Negotiation
• Job Search Strategy Advice
• Switching Careers and Gears • Consulting Case Interviews
• Negotiating for Career • Culture/Fit Interviews
Flexibility • Finance-related Technical
On-ramping Interviews
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21. Filtering For Topics
Closing the deal… Building your career…
• Compensation Negotiation • Promotion Strategy
Advice Brainstorming
• Consulting Case Interviews • Compensation Negotiation
• Culture/Fit Interviews Advice
• Finance-related Technical • Negotiating Career Flexibility
Interviews Off-ramping
• Entrepreneurship
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22. What Is A Session Agenda?
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23. Why Is An Agenda Important?
• Mentors can accept OR decline your request
• Decision basis:
Field of Expertise
Topic Choice
Session Agenda
IE Profile
Resume
Work/travel schedule
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24. Why Is An Agenda Important?
POOR AGENDAS
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25. Examples Of Poor Agendas
• I requested for Mary Smith because of her rich
expertise in the area of Corporate Finance where she
worked at - JP Morgan...
• I requested my mentor because I want some advice
on finding MBA Summer Internships. (2) Where can I
find a summer internship? Does your company offer
them?…
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26. What Happens Next?
Dear Paul,
I just want to let you know that we've received
your request for mentorship and are beginning to
work on a match for you. "Matchmaking" takes a
little time - sometimes mentors are traveling or
their work load is overwhelming - so we ask for
your patience and understanding if we can't match
you with your first choice, or if the matching
process takes longer than expected…
Kind regards, Gayle Rigione
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29. How Long Does It Take?
• Factors Impacting Match Timeline
Agenda quality
Fit of mentors selected
Mentor availability: prior matches, travel
schedules, work load
Mentor preferences
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30. You’re Matched….Now What?
• Confirm your session
• Communicate with your mentor
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31. You Confirm Your Session Here
You have 4 days to confirm your session or it will be cancelled!
34. Holding Your Session
The day before your session you receive an email
with your mentor’s direct email address…
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35. How Do You Hold Your Session?
• Use the contact method of your choice for your
session:
Phone,
Skype,
Google Chat,
Face Time,
Ivy Exec’s AV platform…
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38. Your Session’s Completed! Now What?
• Thank your mentor formally
• Respect your mentor’s privacy
• Can request 1 session per month
• Can request same mentor or different one
• Maintain your All Access membership level
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39. Questions?
Gayle Rigione and Andrea Premate can help!
Gayle
gayle@ivyexec.com
Andrea
andrea@ivyexec.com
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40. Propel Your Career To New Heights With A Mentor…
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Editor's Notes
Many companies have internal mentoring programs – which are great for high potential employees, but sometimes you just can’t be fully open and honest with a colleague…some matters are just too sensitive and could be held against you.Someone who’s been there and done itSomeone who will ask the right questions in a structured waySomeone who will help YOU find your own answers – not give you the answers
What is it?Is it important?What are the pitfalls?
Too generalAccess to a personal network – you are strangers!
Asking for a specific mentors – request 5 to 8 mentors at a time!Asking for a job!Asking for Visa assistance
Need to have respect for your mentor; Do not violate their privacy….BUT you should contact them directly right before your session.
No Linked In invite unless invited…no harrassing emails