Career mentors in today’s workplace seem short on advice

On the second day of his first job, Miguel Valdovinos was shown to his cubicle and introduced to his mentor. The electrical engineer was optimistic: The senior person assigned to guide him through his career at the international electronics company had been on the job since before he was born.

Sure enough, the mentor’s first words to the then 22-year-old offered direction. "He told me he would show me where the pens and paper were," Valdovinos recalled. True to his word, the mentor pointed him to the supply cabinet.

By Elizabeth Holmes
The Wall Street Journal

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