1/21/2024 0 Comments Serenity taylor habib![]() Habib: A lot more of the economy is going to be gig economy than it is now, and we’re already approaching something like 30% of new job creation being part-time or project-based work. business landscape looking like in 10 years? I think if you are a minority, you’re already starting with a bit of a handicap, and creating mentors and investing in mentor relationships is so key to building those same and deep networks. Once a mentor-mentee relationship has built up a lot of trust, their network becomes your network, and that’s been instrumental in how I’ve navigated my career. The second thing that mentorship does is it catapults you and leapfrogs you into an established network. It’s the how-they-did-it that can really be opaque to folks who are outside of the network, minorities included. What mentorship does is a couple of things. Mentors have been instrumental to my own personal success. Habib: Establish mentors every step of the way. Gibbons: What’s one piece of advice you would give to a minority considering a future in business? And from there, may the best candidate win, but a leader’s ability to insist on diverse pipelines is so necessary. There’s so much power that leaders can wield to create diverse candidate pools. You refuse to sit on hiring panels that don’t show you diverse candidates. You ask your hiring managers for diverse candidates. You ask your recruiters for a diverse pipeline. ![]() ![]() There’s nothing that can be faster than this, and responsibility has to start from the top. May Habib: Everything starts from the top, and this is one of the most important things that we can do as leaders to have a single-generation transformative impact on society. ![]()
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