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12 - Real Career Development with Virtual Mentoring

Past, Present, and Future

from Part III - Technology in Training and Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2019

By
Suzanne C. de Janasz  and
Wendy Murphy
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Richard N. Landers
Richard N. Landers
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University of Minnesota
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The Cambridge Handbook of Technology and Employee Behavior , pp. 296 - 314
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Print publication year: 2019

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