Methods, systems and computer readable medium for establishing a relationship between a mentor and a protégé in a workplace. The relationship is established after executing a query of a database to find matches between attributes of a requesting prospective protégé and attributes of a number of candidate mentors, where the database stores attributes of each candidate mentor. The requesting prospective protégé and the candidate mentors are both employed in the workplace, and the matches are determined in accordance with a policy of the workplace. Based on results of the query, an invitation is made to a first candidate mentor. The invitation includes attributes of the requesting prospective protégé and a request that the first candidate mentor accept a mentor-protégé relationship with the requesting protégé. The prospective protégé is notified of an identity and selected attributes of the first candidate mentor only after the first candidate mentor accepts the request.
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