On the results of mentoring work at the National Archives in 2022

The National Archives of the Republic of Belarus pays great attention to working with young specialists and young workers.

An important task is not only the development of professional skills, but also the creation of favorable conditions for the adaptation of young colleagues. In this regard, mentors from among the most experienced and highly professional workers are assigned to young specialists.

Every year the staff of the archive is replenished with young specialists, as a rule, graduates of the Faculty of History of the Belarusian State University. In order to organize, conduct and regulate relations between a young worker or a young specialist and a qualified worker for the transfer of professional knowledge, skills and abilities in the current year, the Regulations on mentoring (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations) have been developed in the archive, agreed with the trade union committee and approved at a meeting of the directorate on June 30 .2022.

Since 2022, mentoring has taken on a different format. By order of the director dated 08.08.2022 No. 57 “On the assignment of mentors” (hereinafter – Order No. 57), the following archive workers are assigned as mentors: N.S.Nartovskaya, I.V.Maslovskaya, O.V.Mikhalyuk, A.G.Shapoval-Konopatskaya, O.Yu.Yurkevich, V.Yu.Monzul, Zh.A.Likhodievskaya. Young colleagues became their wards: K.A.Chikita, A.T.Mironenko, E.S.Milushkina, E.A.Lukina, A.A.Krivetsky, L.U.Garcia-Prykhodzka.

The work was organized in accordance with the Regulations and the Work Plan of the Mentoring Archive for 2022-2023, which made it possible to make it more systematic. Defining the goals and objectives of mentoring, setting priorities determined the structure of the work. Agreements concluded between mentors and young specialists (employees) increased the responsibility of the parties.

The mentors developed individual work plans, taking into account the activities for the adaptation of their wards, their study of the regulatory framework, types of work in structural divisions, etc.

The reports compiled by the mentors at the end of the mentoring period were an analysis of the work done: the level of adaptation in the team of young workers, relationships with colleagues, mastery of work skills, and the degree of their growth were determined.

In turn, the guys filled out the questionnaires provided for by the Regulations, in which they assessed the work of mentors, noting the positive aspects of mutual cooperation.

The leadership of the archive and the trade union committee summed up the work done on mentoring: the assessment of the work of mentors was material incentives, and our young colleagues undoubtedly received certain professional skills. But, first of all, the mentors showed that there are people nearby who will always help in word and deed.

Despite the official end of the mentoring period, cooperation continues, and the quality of fulfillment of the obligations assumed by senior colleagues will be shown by the further work of our guys.