How can you ensure a successful mentoring experience - one that puts pizzazz into your career and provides valuable professional exposure and expert advice? It takes work. You need to be serious and deliberate. That's where this quick-read book comes in. So You Want to Be Mentored provides five strategies that will help put you in the driver's seat, whether you have a mentor or you're searching for one. The book is divided into six sections that examine such issues as how to set goals at the beginning of the relationship, prepare for meetings, anticipate roadblocks, track your progress and periodically examine where you are in the process. The worksheets, models and tools included will help you implement the strategies. Use this book as a self-study workbook, a guide for facilitator-led training, a source of pick-and-choose tools or a general reference. It is practical and straightforward, designed to be written in and personalized, and full of information to help you benefit from the power of mentoring.