Could you be a mentor?

After the success of our pilot programme in this year, the Your Future Plan team are proud to announce that our Professional Mentoring Programme will return in January.

The programme is aimed at helping students develop their career confidence, build resilience, and support the growth of their employability skills. Starting in January, over a 12 week period there is an expectation of four to six mentoring sessions that can take place online or face to face.

We are also beginning to grow a great network of UoG Mentors, including lots of alumni as well as new external mentors, and have had two very successful networking events.

So far, we have found the impact of the programme has included:

• Before the programme, 46% of students who registered felt confident identifying and presenting their skills and strengths. After the programme, this percentage increased to 86%.
• Before the programme, 31% of students who registered felt clear about the next steps on their career plan. After the programme, this went up to 82%.
• 90% of our mentors will be mentoring again.

We are looking for a broad range of individuals, who are interested in developing their own skills in coaching and leadership, while inspiring the future workforce.

Please be aware, we are not looking for experts within specific fields. We are looking for mentors with a breadth of life experience to share with our students. So, with that in mind, everyone has something to offer.

A great example of cross-industry support can be seen here from Level 6 BA (Hons) Photography student Lucy: “I am an artist, so it’s been really useful for me to talk to someone more business-minded and gain insight into ways of marketing myself through LinkedIn bios, CVs and my own artist biography, which is both business and art related.”

If you are interested in being part of our January – April programme, please Register here, or feel free to email Mentoring Coordinator Fiona Jones – [email protected] – for a brief chat about the programme.

Further details about timings and commitment will be sent out to everyone who expresses interest.

We are building an amazing network of mentors, and hope that this can continue with your help.