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    A Mentor At Your Fingertips
    A Mentor At Your Fingertips
    A Mentor At Your Fingertips
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    A Mentor At Your Fingertips

    By Suzanne Scheideker Cook

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    A Mentor at Your Fingertips is written specifically to mentor women that work in conservative industries such as government, finance, transportation, and construction. A Mentor at Your Fingertips gives detailed advice on identifying and setting goals, preparing for an interview, developing successful interview techniques, growing a career, and avoiding career breakers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 27, 2015
    ISBN9781631929564
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      A Mentor At Your Fingertips - Suzanne Scheideker Cook

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      WHY THIS BOOK?

      A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

      -Gloria Steinem-

      Recently, I was having a conversation with a young female grocery box clerk who said We’ve come a long way. I can remember when women were not allowed to be box clerks and when my brother was threatened with the loss of his newspaper route because he used me as his substitute. (Our local paper did not allow girls to have paper routes.) While we have made progress, I would amend We’ve come a long way to We have come part of the way.

      One of my favorite movies is The Associate which stars Whoopi Goldberg. It is about an incredibly talented female who opens her own investment firm. In this endeavor, she has the help of a Girl Friday played by Diane Wiest who is also not recognized for her talents in the corporate world. Out of desperation, our heroine invents a white male business partner in order to get former clients to do business with her. While the movie is hilarious, the reality for women is that not much has changed in the workplace since 1996 when The Associate was made.

      According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fifty-nine percent of working age women are in the workplace in the United States. It is anticipated that between 2008 and 2018, the women’s civilian workforce will increase by another nine percent. The median income for a woman with a college degree is $34,700 while her male counterpart’s median income is approximately $10,000 higher. Statistics also show that women who serve in leadership roles in the private and public sectors are few and far between – just five percent of women are in the ranks of executive management in the United States. There are only twenty-three female Chief Executive Officers of Fortune 500 companies and the majority have been promoted to this position within the last five years.

      Additionally, it is a generally accepted fact that high potential women advance more slowly than their male colleagues. It is clear that men hold most of the leadership roles in business and outpace women in pay and advancement. The key to changing this is to mentor women by sharing successful strategies and techniques that will give us an equal footing in getting in the door and advancing to leadership roles.

      There are lots of books and articles that give advice on how to land a job and promote in the workplace. However, few are written from the viewpoint of a woman that has worked and succeeded in a conservative industry such as government, finance, construction, or transportation.

      Mentoring is my passion. I wrote A Mentor at Your Fingertips specifically for women working in these industries who do not have a real-life mentor. In my career, I have been blessed to have some terrific mentors who shared their strategies for success with me. They encouraged me to create my own definition of success which has served me well personally and professionally. (I started at the bottom and worked my way up to senior management making six figures.)

      A Mentor at Your Fingertips shares these tips for success. It is designed to be reader-friendly and as an E-book so that it is accessible and affordable. (It is under 100 pages and costs about the same as a specialty drink at your favorite coffee shop.)

      A Mentor at Your Fingertips is meant to be used as a career blueprint and resource. Topics include the unspoken ground rules in the office, getting in the door, growing a career, and career breakers.

      Each chapter begins with a quote and ends with a personal challenge. The reason for this is that inspirational quotes help you move past discouragement. Quotes take only a few seconds to read. But, the impact of these words lasts a lot longer and helps you frame your goals. There are many beautiful quotes. Find the ones that speak to you. Keep them close by so when you need encouragement, you can turn to them to lift your spirits.

      Each chapter ends with Challenge Yourself which is comprised of questions and/or tasks which help you identify obstacles and then map out ways to move past them. Additionally, these exercises will help you succeed in reaching your current goals and then setting new goals.

      I would encourage you to write your answers to the questions down and then track your progress in completing the tasks in a journal. Why? Writing makes it real. Writing your goals and the steps needed to make your dream happen keeps you honest. Unless you are incredibly focused, writing it down also helps you keep on track – where you are as opposed to where you want to be. Writing it down creates the roadmap to your success.

      When we do not write our goals and dreams down, then it is easy to lose track of them. Will your dream produce a better life for you? Then you owe it to yourself to make it happen. Challenging yourself helps you build and keep your momentum in achieving success.

      There is a great definition for vision that you see hanging in many offices. It is A vision without a task is a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world. Write your vision down. Then do the tasks that are needed to make your dreams come true. Remember that life gives us many opportunities to learn, grow, and expand our horizons.

      THE GROUND RULES

      People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.

      -Anonymous-

      In the workplace, it is assumed that you know what to do and how to handle yourself in all types of situations. Well, we all know what happens when you assume. There is an unspoken code of conduct in business which I call the Ground Rules. These Rules are often learned the hard way. (Yes, I am speaking from experience.) Below are my Ground Rules that have served me well personally and professionally. Use them as a template to make your own set of Ground Rules. Remember - Ground Rules are the foundation on which everything else is built.

      Ground Rule #1 – Accept and adapt to the situation at hand.

      When we were growing up, we would complain to our mom about some real or imagined injustice and end it by whining about how unfair it was. Mom’s response to us was "Life is not fair. Accept

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