Mentoring is basically a relation ship b/w two persons where by a person having greater experience, expertise and wisdom counsels and helps another person to develop both personally as well as professionally. Where the purpose is to foster positive and constructive relation ship between experienced state employees who are the mentors and the less experienced employees. On the other hand Career development is a long -term process in dedication to the development of professional knowledge, skills and expertise for the employees. Career development is always for the benefit of both the individual as well as the organization as it provides to the individual a more efficient, productive and successful environment.

Therefore, career development not only motivates individuals who are interested in long-term career goals but also provide them multiple ways to develop their careers by effective planning and mentoring. However, many people mix mentoring with job coaching, there is a sharp distinction between these two, job coaching is basically for some limited or given task in hand, while mentoring is a long-term goal oriented process. (Steinberg & Foley, 1999).

Mentoring and Career development

Therefore, mentor basically an experienced and trusted adviser of an inexperienced person. In today’s world of globalization and free market economy, trade and business have gained a lot of importance with in the country as well as in the globe. So now business is not only restricted within the state but also expanded vastly to whatever part of the globe the businessmen feel to. However, the trends have changed with the speedy development of technology and modern tools of business. There was a time that only trained business professionals used to get into business but now, one who has money though no experience and knowledge of business ethics and legalities starts its own business. Therefore, one important question comes to our mind, that how do they succeed in this world of competition where a number of experienced business professionals are there since the beginning? The simple answer to this question is “Mentor”. In the present world of globalization and modernization, new businessmen as well as old business professionals both are working behind the knowledge and guidance of some professional mentors, and this process is known as mentoring. Now lets try to analyze how mentoring plays its role in career development.

Many organizations are achieving professional success under the guidance of a mentor. This is due the changing organizational structure where the careers have become boundary less, where the hopes of the manger of a business company is totally dependent on a network of a few intelligent mentors to meet the challenges in the work places. (Suzanne C de Janasz, Sherry E Sullivan, Vicki Whiting 2003) In this way mentors play a very important role in developing the business career, as they are the key element for the bright career of business. Specifically the role that multiple mentors play in the various departments of a business company as they have the full potential and capacity to leverage for the career of personal success with in the boundaries of the organization

Actually in USA competition is not only among the business corporations but the owners who belong to different races, so indirectly the challenges related to career development is due to the racial discrimination in the profession. For instance some corporations are owned by the whites and some by other racial minorities, so here it becomes a matter of self-respect an ego for both the communities to lead in the capital market on both national as well as international level. Therefore, it is observed that the high-potential minorities usually take off after they reach to the middle management professionally while on the other side the whites achieve a more promising professional career by entering a very fast track and minorities on contrary who became executives after their middle management basically enjoy developmental relationships with their mentors. (David A Thomas, 2001)

Furthermore, in order to achieve profession gain, good career advice along support and positive perspective, a mentoring relationship is proved to be the most suitable and appropriate in this regard. However, the companies who do not enjoy mentoring relationships face a slow career development process. At the same time mentors are also trained by the companies in regard to career development as a relation to the HR professionals. (Kathryn Tyler 2004) therefore, along other professional training programs, mentoring has also entered into the list. Now organizations are focusing more on training mentors for a stronger and faster business development, which at the same time ensures the prospectus of these career oriented mentors. However, women are equally being offered to such mentoring programs where they use their mentoring skills outside the company to indirectly benefit their company as well as themselves as gaining more experience to get hold as a strong mentor for its organization. For instance they communicate to their clients during lunch hours or meet them at lunch in person do develop close relationships to bridge the cultural and racial gaps among the very customers, clients and the organization.

Moreover, a new trend has started in the market to select mentors ensuring good talent and high skills in person as a mentor. Big organizations for instance, Honeywell's Aerospace Electronic Systems Group, identify managers from different organizations who are highly skillful and talented to be trained and used as mentors. (William Atkinson. 2002) In furtherance of this objective, such companies also integrate the performance of such managers working as mentors to give an annual review and produce competitive environment for them. This is worked under the IMPD (Integrated Performance Management and Development)

Nonetheless mentoring has been a very important aspect in the development of careers. Though it is an unofficial method of career developing but it resulted into fast productivity with quality work in the work place. So career development via mentoring works as a non-training intervention as it provides to the individual a bright future and long term professional goals. it has also proved to be a motivational force for career development for professionals related to different fields.

Moreover, a successful mentor should have a very impressive and bright personality, if an individual is very much social, broad vision, flexible and compassionate, it best suits to his personality with the profession. Such individuals have more chances in career development. Basically this hidden skill as a person makes a mentor more receptive, responsive, open and independent as a whole to work for the organization. At the same time to achieve successive mentoring behavior, the mentors are required to participate in different mentoring program for learning the latest techniques. This not only helps in career development but also develops conflict resolution skills and effective communication tools in the mentors that can help in any emergency situation in areas of conflict among the very members of the organization and its other employees or customers.