Abstract
The University of Michigan has a large number of IT professionals in many roles, from desktop support to web design, programming high performance computing software to racking servers in data centers, monitoring networks throughput to planning a deployment to making sure that one finicky projector is working for that big presentation happening in an hour. One question that many IT professionals will have, what next? How do I advance to the next level? Who can I go to for career advice? How do can I safely talk to someone whose "been there"? The Michigan IT Mentorship Program seeks to help IT staff build their professional network by facilitating mentoring either in-person or remotely, individually or in groups. The Michigan IT Mentorship Program is seeing potential mentors and mentees as well as establishing and nurturing mentorship in our IT community.