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Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

 

 

GET INVOLVED

Find a mentor and become a mentor!  It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector.  In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

  • Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
  • Track the status of their mentoring requests
  • Updated Resources page
  • Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
  • Additional search filters:
  • ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
  • Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
  • Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
  • CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

 

 

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INSTALLATION MENTORING CHALLENGE

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In observance of National Mentoring Month, we have a goal of increasing Airman and Guardian mentoring profiles and pairs by 20%. The winning installation will have the opportunity to participate in a virtual mentoring session.