FAQs & Support

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What is PushFar?
PushFar is the world’s leading online career progression platform. We are making mentoring more accessible and effective for everyone. We help individuals to find mentors and mentees, network with relevant professionals, connect and develop and grow their careers.

How do you match mentors?
Magic! No, we’re just kidding. We use lots of profile data from each person, such as location, industry, experience, past mentoring relationships and the areas in which each mentor and mentee are looking to offer and seek support. We recommend up to five potential matches for each member and members can either request the suggested matches or ‘dismiss’ any recommended matches that don’t seem quite right. We then use matches and dismissed recommendations to improve our matching, through machine learning.

What is mentoring?
Everyone has their own perception of what it is to be a mentor or to be mentored, but at PushFar we believe that mentoring is quite simple. We believe that mentoring is simply one professional aiding and assisting another professional in any capacity. Mentoring could take as basic a form as sitting with a professional for 20 minutes to discuss a challenge they are facing with their boss. Or even as little as simply exchanging a series of emails or messages about recommendations for a job interview. Or, mentoring could be as involved as weekly catch-up calls, meetings and coffee dates to discuss the week’s professional progress, job promotions, internal office politics and reaching career goals. Mentoring, put quite simply, is helping.

Who can be a mentor?
Nowadays, there are several different types of mentoring. Traditional mentoring was the act of a senior and experienced individual in an industry acting as a support and adviser to someone less experienced. Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of mentoring is just this – “An experienced person in a company or educational institution who trains and counsels new employees or students.” And while this is largely still the case, there are other mentoring techniques and types popping up, such as reverse mentoring. Reverse mentoring is, as it suggests, where new, junior and less-experienced individuals’ mentor those who’ve been in the industry or a specific company for considerably longer. The idea behind this is that those with a fresh, new perspective can help to push change. Almost everyone is ultimately capable of being a mentor. Anyone who believes they have experience or insight and can offer valuable support and advice to another individual can be a mentor.

What are the benefits to mentoring?
There are a huge number of benefits to both being a mentor and being mentored by others. Whether offering internal mentoring solutions or finding a mentor as an individual, the possibilities are endless!

Benefits to being a mentor:

  • The opportunity to improve interpersonal skills.
  • The opportunity to understand other departments and roles.
  • The opportunity to give-back and nurture.

Benefits to being a mentee:

  • The opportunity to learn and grow their career.
  • The opportunity to develop self-confidence.
  • The opportunity to develop skills and knowledge.
  • The ability to better-understand organisational culture.

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