Top 5 reasons to engage with a mentor when considering a career in healthcare:

1. Healthcare is competitive, if it was easy everyone would do it! Talk to someone that can give you tips to succeed. This isn’t cheating but rather how you properly prepare for everything you care about in life, with a little help!

2. The greatest leaders always point to their mentors and leaders that helped them get from where they a started to where they are now.

3. If you are unsure what career is best for you, it’s best to explore your options with someone that has “been there and done that”. Sometime it will take talking to multiple professionals in different fields to find your best fit.

4. Going into an application process blindly will waste you time and money. Applying to a bunch of schools and just hoping anyone will accept you is an unwise and unprepared approach! Make an action plan with someone that can guide you.

5. A personalized approach cannot be replaced by free information or casual advice to the general applicant. If it’s freely available information then all of the other applicants are also using it. The goal is to stand out! This strategy gives you active feedback to areas that you may not realize you need to improve on.