Mentoring, sponsoring and coaching new talent in the tech industry

When you’re start your career in the technology industry, it can be difficult to know how to navigate the organization and the industry. Having a…

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January 08, 20191 min read

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When you’re start your career in the technology industry, it can be difficult to know how to navigate the organization and the industry. Having a mentor or a sponsor to help guide you can accelerate your progression and provide new opportunities that might not otherwise have been available. At the same time, once you’ve become more established in the industry it can be extremely rewarding to mentor or sponsor up-and-coming talent — if you know how.

In this video, Danny Allen, VP Tech Diversity and Inclusion at SAP Labs shares how he continuously strives to mentor and sponsor a wide variety of individuals within SAP, and how we can all be an advocate for someone else.

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