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Take it from Bea Harris-Lane: If you want to grow professionally, you have to like what you’re doing while at work.
“Don’t do something you don’t like. All you’re doing is fighting and wasting your years away,” said Harris-Lane, the director of Central Transport Services, at the first Networking for Success event, sponsored by the BWH Association of Multicultural Members of Partners (AMMP).
As a member of a panel offering tips on career success, Harris-Lane sat alongside Shelita Bailey, director of the Office for Sponsored Staff and Volunteer Services, Joi Torrence, administrative manager for the Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Interventional Center, and Arthur Mombourquette, vice president of Support Services, who offered their own stories of overcoming obstacles and sound advice on advancing professionally with 50 BWHers who attended the event last week.
Mombourquette emphasized the importance of having mentors. He was 17 when he began in the Housekeeping Department at the Boston Hospital for Women. Mentors helped him make the decision to go to college, which he completed with tuition reimbursement from the hospital.
“You need mentors to tell you that you have more potential than you think,” he said.
Geoff Vercauteren, career coach in Workforce Development, presented valuable networking tips, stressing the need to build strong relationships and to thank those who help along the way. Attendees practiced using the tips and networked throughout the reception.