What is Mentoring?

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Mentoring Guide

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We offer students the following opportunities:

• To meet a role model outside their normal learning environment
• To undertake voluntary partnerships and extra-curricular activities that will enhance their job and/or university applications.

Mentoring involves students meeting with a Mentor for one hour per month to talk about College work and academic goals. Mentors can give students fresh ideas about work and inside advice on getting into certain professions as well as general advice about the world of employment. Mentors and students can meet at College, outside College, or at the Mentor's workplace.

The Mentor may be able to help with arranging work experience or work shadowing. Students can choose to be mentored one-to-one, in a pair with a friend or in a larger group.

What are the benefits?

• Increased self-confidence
• Objective honest advice and constructive feedback about work from someone outside the College system
• Help deciding where you want to go, and what qualifications you will need to get there
• Accounts of other people’s first-hand experiences of the choices they made when they were in your position
• Exciting and educational extra-curricular activities to add to your application forms and CV

Who are the Mentors?

• The mentors are professionals who have volunteered to invest time into the community - they are not paid to do this and it is not part of their jobs.
• Currently we have designers, bankers, teachers, journalists, IT professionals, lawyers, people working in international development, government, the police and other public services.