我们根本没搞懂导师制

    利用新一代技术和用户反馈对传统模式进行补充，各种机构可以借此合作实现导师制的个性化，并对指导效果进行衡量。如果理想的话，可以更快地带来积极的影响。我们在为学员与导师牵线搭桥的时候，针对性越强（例如，一名在零售业创业的三十岁左右的非洲裔美国女性，希望扩大规模，在西雅图开设第二家分店，我们就可以直接针对她的需求，提供更加精确的指导），导师制的效果就会越好。

    5. 尽早开始

    随着学生背负的助学贷款债务越来越多，而毕业之后的就业前景又持续低迷，因此千禧一代和他们的弟弟妹妹们痛苦地发现，他们父母那种一条直线的成功之路已经不复存在。目前，约63%的千禧一代都在从事低技能的零售工作，年收入不到30,000美元。

    这也正是尽早接触创业思维至关重要的原因，甚至可以从幼儿园抓起。当然，并不是说我们期望美国五岁大的孩子们都能建立一家大公司，但如果今天的孩子们能够了解未来的情况，那么在十年之后，他们踏入职场时就能应付自如。

    我们越早为胸怀壮志的创业者、学生和未来的CEO们提供创业指导，就越有可能终结就业不足、失业和低薪的恶性循环。要知道，这个问题正困扰着许多美国人。

    本文作者斯科特•戈贝尔，为青年企业家协会（Young Entrepreneur Council ）创始人、风险投资公司 Gen Y Capital Partners的联合创始人，著有《绝不要得到“真正”工作》（Never Get a Real Job）一书。

    翻译：刘进龙/汪皓

    By supplementing traditional models with next-generation technology and user feedback, organizations can work together to personalize mentorship, measure outcomes, and, ideally, make a positive impact faster. The more targeted we can be when we connect mentees to mentors (e.g., offering precise mentoring that directly fits the needs of an African-American female 30-something retail entrepreneur expanding to a second location in Seattle), the more effective mentorship programs will become.

    5. Start early

    As student loan debt mounts and post-college employment outcomes remain dismal -- 63 percent of Millennials are working low-skill retail jobs, pocketing under $30,000 annually -- Gen Y and their younger siblings are painfully aware that their parent's linear path to success is disappearing.

    This is why exposure to entrepreneurial thinking -- even as early as kindergarten – is critical. Not because we expect our nation's five-year olds to go out and build the next big business, but because that same student a decade later will be better equipped to handle the future workplace if he or she has a sense of what's coming.

    The earlier we provide mentorship to aspiring entrepreneurs, students, and future CEOs, the better chance we have at putting an end to the chronic cycle of underemployment, joblessness, and low-wage work dogging many Americans today.

    Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council and co-founder of Gen Y Capital Partners. He is also the author of Never Get a "Real" Job.