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A guide for mentors: One Term

How to guide one student through a term so they leave with a clearer next step.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

Why it matters

Few graduates had a mentor

Only about one graduate in five strongly agrees a mentor encouraged their goals.

22% Graduates who strongly agree they had a mentor who encouraged their goals and dreams Gallup-Purdue Index, 2014

A one-page agreement

Agree how you will work

Write down the goal, the rhythm, what stays private and how to end it.

A rhythm for the term

Plan the whole term at the start

Fix the rhythm, the mid-point review and the last meeting in your first session.

The real picture

Show the job as it really is

Students learn most from the parts nobody puts in a job advert.

  • What a normal week looks like
  • What you wish you had known at their age
  • The dull parts, said plainly
  • What gets a CV turned down

Mentor, not recruiter

Keep mentoring apart from hiring

Say early that you are their mentor here, not a route into your company.

  • Can you get me an interview? I am your mentor here, not a hiring channel.
  • How do people get hired there? That I can tell you in detail.

Closing the term

End the term on purpose

Use the last meeting to look back at the goal and agree one next step.

  • The goal what changed
  • On their own what they can do now
  • Next step one, with a date
  • Thanks both ways

Doing it on Mentornity

Run the term on Mentornity

Your program holds the agreement, the session titles and the calendar link.

Read the program agreement

You confirm it when joining, and it stays in Program details.

Plan the meetings

Use your program’s session titles, or plan from their profile.

Meet across time zones

Open slots show in each person’s own time zone.

Write a visible note

Your student gets the note and next step by email.

Certificates at the end

Your program team publishes them when the term closes.

Read the program agreement

You confirm it when joining, and it stays in Program details.

Plan the meetings

Use your program’s session titles, or plan from their profile.

Meet across time zones

Open slots show in each person’s own time zone.

One slot, three time zonesEach sees their own
LondonMentor 09:00
DubaiMentee 12:00
SingaporeMentee 16:00
One meeting, one video link

Write a visible note

Your student gets the note and next step by email.

Certificates at the end

Your program team publishes them when the term closes.

Book your first meeting this week

Bring a blank agreement and ask what would make this term a success for them.

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