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How to Bring Authenticity in Your Work Environment, Career Story with Amanda Dutko

Meet Amanda Dutko, an avid weightlifter and runner and the newest addition to the OneUpOneDown team. She is originally from a Swiss town but currently lives in France, where she constantly develops herself. She has worked in different fields and now specializes in supporting and boosting startup projects using her outstanding leadership skills to help …

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How to Use Philosophy in Software Engineering, Career Story with Xuan Wang

Meet Xuan Wang, mentee and mentor at OneUpOneDown and Software Engineer at a health tech company in the UK. Xuan started her career as a philosophy teacher, but after 7 years in the industry, she decided to follow her newborn passion for software engineering. She strongly believes that technology should be used to help people …

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Faster matching, new product updates.

We have some exciting product updates to share with you. We now have 400+ women signed up to be matched, from over 20 countries, which is incredibly exciting. To date, we have been making almost all of the mentor matches manually. We have a lot of data to go through to make a match, which has …

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Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable, Career Story with Laura Bull

Meet Laura Bull, mentee and mentor at OneUpOneDown and Digital Marketing Manager at an eco-conscious company in the UK. Laura started her career a little bit unsure of what she wanted to do for a living, but she persisted and developed herself each day to get to where she is now. She strongly believes that …

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Creating a Culture of Accountability with Your Mentee

One of the challenges of being a mentor is knowing how to best guide your mentee towards the goals they have set for themselves. Becoming comfortable with holding people accountable is a beneficial skill for leaders. Being a mentor is a great way to develop this skill while helping someone else at the same time. …

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Building Things that Impact Millions, Career Story with Vicky Sagia

Meet Vicky Sagia, mentor & mentee at OneUpOneDown and Senior Program Manager at Oracle. Vicky’s career began in engineering, designing cities and infrastructure and transitioned into product management for software companies. This happened largely by chance, the catalyst being a move from Greece to San Francisco. Find out more about how Vicky managed this transition …

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How can I create more structure and accountability in my mentorship relationship?

This blog provides a tool for mentors and mentees to create more structure and check-ins within their relationship if this is something the mentor and mentee want to incorporate. OneUpOneDown mentor matches are three months long. Mentor and mentees meet at least four times during this period, twice in the first month and one in …

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The benefits of being an OneUpOneDown mentor

One of the surprising realizations we’ve had since starting OneUpOneDown is that the experience of being a mentor is as valuable as being a mentee. Most people think that mentorship is primarily for the benefit of the mentee. However, this is not the case. It’s a rich learning and joyful experience for both mentor and …

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A step-by-step guide on: how to complete your OneUpOneDown profile

The following steps will quickly show you what you need to complete in order to get matched. When the 3 steps are completed you are ready to go and we will match you as soon as possible. You will get an email from us when we find a mentor/mentee for you. Be aware that you …

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Career Stories: Rebecca Caroe – Following the Squiggly Line to Find Work You Love

Rebecca Caroe is a strategic marketing and the voice behind ‘Creative Agency Secrets’, a company focused on Business to Business marketing and effective copywriting. After being made redundant three times in one year during a recession, she started to approach prospective employers from the perspective of them being customers rather than employees. From here she …

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