Whether you are interested in acquiring new skills, need help overcoming a specific problem, want to trade knowledge with others or are simply looking for some guidance, a mentor is the way to go. But how to go about finding one?

What we do for a living has a huge influence on how we see ourselves and on how others regard us. It is one of the first things people ask about when meeting someone new and something people usually use to jump to all sorts of presumptuous conclusions.