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When we asked Francesca Bedow and her mentee Serena Jivan what they'd say to someone unsure about mentoring, they gave almost exactly the same answer, without speaking to each other beforehand. It says a lot about how well they've been matched. Since 2021, The Channel Community C.I.C. has offered free mentoring to anyone in the UK IT Channel, built on a simple belief: mentoring should be available to everyone, not just large corporates or senior execs. Francesca and Serena's

What does it take to move from pharmaceutical marketing into the IT Channel with no connections and little experience? For Naomi, the answer was resilience - and the right mentor at the right time. Three weeks into her role as Partner Marketing Executive at Softcat, Naomi is finding exactly what she hoped for: plenty of room for creativity while supporting vendors with different marketing initiatives. Getting here wasn’t simple. It took nine months of job hunting, including s

The Channel Community is today launching our Community Blog to share tips and tricks on how to navigate and create a successful career in...