Mentoring
Mentoring
CFMA has launched the Mentorship Committee, designed to match experienced State employees with less experienced employees in order to facilitate technical knowledge sharing as well as advice on how to navigate a career in the State's financial services.
The State faces the challenge of retaining knowledge and filling vacancies as we lose experienced workers to retirement. Mentoring provides an opportunity for CFMA members to share their valuable financial knowledge and career experiences with newer employees, mitigating the effects of future brain drain. As the New Membership Committee focuses on recruiting college graduates, the Mentorship Program will compliment this effort by providing a means for new hires to become acquainted with the State's financial services and career opportunities.
The mentorships will be based on an informal agreement and will run for a period of six months. Mentors and mentorees will be matched based on similar goals, interests and areas of expertise. In order to foster interagency professional relationships and to allow employees to learn about the different financial processes and career opportunities that exist within the State, matches will be made with someone outside of their immediate agency.
During the six month period, participants should plan to share one or two meetings for coffee or lunch. The Board has generously offered to donate a $10 Starbucks gift to each membership team to get them started. Ideally, the mentor will also be able to host the mentoree for a job shadow day, or even just a simple office visit
CFMA members who would like to be a mentor or to be mentored can access and download an application form from the CFMA website. If you know of any State employees who are not yet members of CFMA but might benefit from the mentorship program, please tell them about it. This could be a good way to recruit new CFMA members who are not necessarily fiscal managers but who are interested in State government fiscal management and accounting.
Please contact Anne Bygrave for more information.
Applications are available in Adobe PDF format.
Comments may be directed to the web coordinator at cfma@live.com