 Mentor is defined by Miriam Webster as someone who teaches or gives help to a less experienced and often younger person. The word is often used to describe someone who has a positive influence on someone. You could say that being a mentor means making a commitment. Being a mentor is a commitment to guide, educate, support, and encourage someone who's taking responsibility for their own growth and development in the field. People mentors often have people skills, communication skills, management skills, and supervisory skills. The ability to work well with a team, patience, charisma, responsibility, availability, experience and knowledge in the field. Some of the things a mentor does include help a protégé write their résumé, contact a protégé with new job postings or information, teach a protégé about the field in which the mentor works, provide support and friendship to a protégé. Encourage a protégé's curiosity, provide feedback, introduce a protégé to other people in the field, meet regularly with a protégé to develop career goals and a plan for reaching them. While it takes work to maintain the integrity of a relationship with a protégé, many find it very rewarding to be a mentor.