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  1. This phenomenological study explores the mentoring needs of 13 Black and Latinx engineering postdoctoral scholars with an adaptation of the ideal mentoring model used as the conceptual framework. A documented four-stage process of phenomenological data analysis was employed to examine the interview data: epochĂ©, horizontalization, imaginative variation, and synthesis. The phenomenon’s essence is Black and Latinx engineering postdoctoral scholars have primary and secondary mentoring needs pertaining to their immediate career acquisition of a position in the professoriate. Primary mentoring needs include expanding their professional networks and support in crafting competitive application packages and coaching on work-life balance. Secondary needs consist of enhancing and promoting their technical skills, as well as acquiring political guidance on matters of race/ethnicity in academia. 
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