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Article: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Mentorship Priorities Surviving the Slump; Dealing with the financial crisis has been stressful and distracting, but industry leaders are still finding time to coach up-and-coming female execs.(Front and Center)
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- US Banker
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Byline: Heather Landy
Mentorship was vital to career survival for many of the women who have attained senior jobs in banking. Now, in a difficult business climate, these women have been vital to the survival of mentorship.
Without them, the formal networks and informal conversations that have guided so many careers might have been crowded out by the time demands and stress of working in an industry under siege.
Instead, mentorship appears to be thriving, even as the havoc wreaked by the financial crisis generates a surge in demand for support and guidance that in theory should have overwhelmed the available supply.
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