#570 The Four People Every Squiggly Career Network Needs

Hi, I'm Helen and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast. And this is another one of our Squiggly Career shortcuts. Thank you for everyone that's given us feedback on these. Lots of people have said that these feel really useful. We always love your feedback, so you can just email us helen and Sarah at squigglycareers.com.

But today in our shortcut, I wanted to talk about a topic that comes up in lots of the workshops that we run and it's all about your career community. But investing in the most important roles that are going to make the biggest difference to your development. And the reason this matters is I find when we're talking to people that lots of people don't really like the idea of networking. They worry that they have to make lots of random relationships and go to loads of events that they don't want to be at. But actually the idea of the four roles that matter most, the four that make the biggest difference to your development just feels a bit easier for people.

Because we know that if we just focus on those four, then actually we don't have to worry about all those events and all those other awkward conversations. So I want to tell you what the four are, what they are, why they matter, and maybe give you a few ideas to get started with building those relationships. So let's start with the first. The first is the role of a mentor. Now, most of you probably already know about mentoring.

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