Profiles and Opinions About Career Parameters

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The Navy conducted research in to how to better communicate career attractiveness, but we found another issue.
Most of the senior and post-High-School students who were interviewed had no idea about what a good career should look like.

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The Best Career Characteristics and Parameters

    Below you will find a sereies of parameters that may make up a career. You are asked to fill out the demographic data about yourself and then rate each statement as to whether is is "Very Desirable", "Desirable", "Neutral", "Undesirable" or "Very Undesirable ".

    Your Rank when they first mentored you:

   Your Mentor's Rank when they first mentored you :

    About how much older than you was your Mentor:

The Most Effective You have Ever Been as a Mentor

    Consider the best mentoring you have given when in the service. That relationship should have been marked by the fact that if asked, "Are you mentoring that person?", you would have responded in the affirmative. Also, if your mentee had been asked, "Are you being mentored by that person?", they would have said: "Yes!"

   Your Rank when you first mentored them:

   Your Mentee's Rank when when you first mentored them:

    About how much younger than you was your Mentee:

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Opinion Survey

    Please respond to the following statements indicating how you feel about them.

Statement
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
1
 Mentoring is important to developing leaders for the DoD.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
2
 I received sufficient and high quality mentoring.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
3
 Mentoring was available to me when I needed it.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
4
 My best mentoring was delivered by a formal program .
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
5
 New officers are best mentored by O-4s and above.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
6
 Mentors' time in service is more important than pay grade.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
7
 Good mentors ask more questions than give specific advice.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
8
 The problem with mentoring is lack of mentee receptiveness.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
9
 Being a good mentor is an inborn skill, not a learned method.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
10
 Good potential mentors can be identified and selected.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree

 

Request for Input and Guidance

Briefly list a few issues for which you think young officers need Mentoring?

 

When you were new to the service, to whom did you go for advice?

Briefly list a few items that you can remember on which you did seek advice?

What kinds of input were the most useful to you?

Briefly list a few items of family or external "life concerns" that require Mentoring?

Briefly list a few sexual harrassment or assault issues that impacted you?

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