One conversation
is not a mentorship.
You can find a name. You can even get a reply. The hard part is turning that into someone who knows what you are working on and expects to hear from you again.
Mentable works out who you should know, tells you both why, and keeps the relationship going after the first conversation.
Free to join. You do not need to know anyone first. You do need to show up prepared and follow through.
Example mentor
Credit desk, twenty years in
Shared goal
Understand how a fixed-income desk is actually run
Target: June 2027
Next session
Thursday · 45 minutes
- Read how a rates desk is structured
- Write down three questions before Thursday
What usually happens.
This is not anyone failing. It is what mentorship looks like when a student has to assemble it out of parts that were never connected to each other.
Find a name
From a panel, a class list, or a friend of a friend.
Send a cold message
Rewrite it four times. Send it. Wait.
Get one coffee chat
Thirty good minutes, and no plan for minute thirty-one.
Say you will follow up
You mean it. So do they.
It goes quiet
Not because anyone lost interest.
Every step in that sequence is reasonable on its own. Nothing is holding them together, so the relationship lasts exactly as long as someone remembers to keep it alive.
Knowing who
to ask.
You tell Mentable what you are studying, what you are interested in and where you are trying to get to. Discover ranks mentors against that, and shows you why each one came up.
The reason matters more than the ranking. It is the difference between a name on a list and a person whose relevance to you fits in one sentence, before you have said a word to them.
Example mentor
Credit desk, twenty years in
Two decades on credit desks, and six years running a team.
Why you are seeing this mentor
- Specializes in Fixed Income
- Covers Capital Markets
- Same university as you
- Fixed Income
- Capital Markets
- Career Development
Who you could be matched with.
The first is real and agreed to be here. The second is an example, because the people who have said yes so far all work in one field and your field may not be theirs.
Christopher Floyd, CFA
Christopher Floyd, CFAFormer MD, Co-Head of High Grade Sales & Trading · Wells FargoFormer Managing Director and Co-Head of High Grade Sales and Trading at Wells Fargo, and a CFA charterholder.
Title, employer and charter, all from his profile.
About three decades in fixed income, including 14 years at Wells Fargo Securities.
From his profile and public professional history.
He agreed to appear here, by name, after a student asked him.
Consent recorded on 26 October 2026 for his name, photograph, title and employer.
This is one real mentor, shown with his permission. Mentable is early and there are not many mentors yet. Nothing here says he is available to everyone.
A teacher, five years in
ExampleShe has taught the grade you are training for, in a school like the one you want.
From what both people wrote about where they are and where they are going.
Classroom management is the thing you asked about and the thing she offers.
From your goals and her list of what she can help with.
She left teaching once and came back.
From her profile. It is the reason she is willing to talk about the hard year.
The card on the right is invented, including the person. Nothing in it is attributed to anybody, and nobody on this site is quoted.
Mentable is a two way word.
mentable/men-tə-bəl/adjective
Teachable. Coachable. Ready to grow.
The word describes the student, not the mentor. Being worth someone's time is a thing you can choose, and Mentable makes your side of it visible: the action items you closed are on the same record your mentor reads before you meet.
- Arrive with a question, not just availability.
- Do the thing you said you would do.
- Come back with what happened, including the parts that went badly.
- Say when the advice did not fit. That is worth knowing too.
You do not need to
know anyone yet.
Say what you are trying to do, and start with one person who has already done it.
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