ABSTRACT
Mentoring can be defined as facilitating someone else’s career development. The mentor becomes a trusted adviser and guide to the learner and takes him or her under their wing. Mentoring has been used for many years, for example in the old apprentice system when master craftsmen kept a fatherly eye on the young apprentices working with them. Very often it is something that evolves informally through a personal relationship between a young member of the team and an older, more experienced member. The benefits can be so great that in recent years many organizations have set up more formal mentoring arrangements.
