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Every year Redgate hands out a series of Tribal Awards<\/a>, voted for by the SQL Server community around the world. In the 2013 awards\u00a0I won the “Most Authoritative Voice” category (I think just because I’m very tall and have a deep voice :-) and\u00a0in the 2014 awards, announced a few weeks ago, I won the “Person You’d Most Like to be Mentored By” category.<\/p>\n

Cool! I like to mentor people and that’s one of the most enjoyable parts of managing teams, both when I was at Microsoft, and my team here at SQLskills.<\/p>\n

Given that you all voted for me, I’m going to give you the opportunity\u00a0to be mentored by me. I’ll mentor up to three men and three women during March and April to help with career guidance, skills growth, or whatever I can help you with (disclaimers: I do all mentoring over email – asynchronicity rules! I reserve the right to change the mix of mentees if I’m short on applicants.).<\/p>\n

How do you qualify? Write a blog post explaining why you should be mentored, and then post a link to your post as a comment on this post (it won’t appear right away as comments are moderated due to the amount of spam comments).<\/p>\n

Don’t make the post about me, make it about you. I already know about me :-)<\/p>\n

You’ve got until Sunday 15th February at 23:59:59 PST. I’ll pick the winners based on my sole judgment and announce them on Monday 16th February. I don’t care who you are, where you are, who you work for, or how good your English is; you have an equal chance of being picked as anyone else. It’s all down to the blog post.<\/p>\n

Note: the contest is over, please do not submit any further entries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have fun!<\/p>\n

PS So far people are focusing on what they know about SQL Server. I’m not going to teach you what I know about SQL Server in two months – that’s what my blog and training materials are for – but I could help you figure out *how* to learn more, if that’s really the most important thing in your career that you need help with. A blog post about what you do and have done with SQL Server tells me nothing about you or what you want to get out of being mentored….<\/p>\n

PPS Remember that mentoring means you working to figure out what you need help with first of all – if you can’t tell me what you need help with (and I’ll provide a whole bunch of suggestions) then there’s nothing I can do…<\/p>\n

PPPS Mentoring (as far as I’m concerned) isn’t about firing off a bunch of questions about day-to-day SQL Server problems you’re having – that’s not what I’ll help you with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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