Overview

Mentors inspire, encourage, and support you, and contribute to your professional and personal development. You can expect to strengthen and build your network and gain the skills and confidence necessary to excel.

Frequently Asked Questions

• How do I choose a Mentor?  First, complete your profile with as much information about yourself, your challenges and goals as possible. The more complete the information the better the match with your mentor. Then browse through the list of recommended mentors (2 female and 2 male) and send a mentoring request  to one female and one male mentor.
• How long will the mentors be available? We ask our mentors to make commitments of at least six months to one 9 months  in order to ensure that the mentee is able to fully benefit from the relationship. Meetings should take place every 6 weeks either face-to-face or using web-based tools (Skype, Face Time, Zoom) and be one hour in duration. If a mentor must leave the relationship early, we request at least one month's notice in order to search for a replacement mentor with similar background.
• Relationship is not going well or I am concerned about membership, what to do? We encourage letting the mentor know about the situation and contact the Admin Immediately. We will provide our full support to resolve the situation in a positive and satisfactory manner. We are always happy to re-match is it is proven necessary.

Mentee DO's

1. TAKE A PROACTIVE ROLE IN SHAPING UP THE RELATIONSHIP. The onus to taking the initiative is yours.
2. Understand what you want from the mentoring relationship and communicate your goals and aspirations to your mentor. Balance personal and professional relationship with your mentor.
3. Set aside time for the mentoring process and keep all scheduled appointments with your mentor and display professional behaviour. 
4. Schedule meetings as much ahead of time as possible, be mindful that mentors are volunteers and are busy professionals.
5. PUT THE TIME WITH MENTOR TO THE BEST USE. Come to meetings with mentor prepared with planned topics.
6. Respond in a timely manner to your mentor's feedback. Respond to emails from your mentor at most two days after receipt.
7. Be open and honest with your mentor about your challenges and weaknesses. 
8. If something concerning the mentor needs to be discussed with others, it should first be discussed within the mentoring relationship.

Mentee DON'Ts

1. Ask for advice on everything. Have a purpose in each request.
2. Blame the mentor if his or her advice doesn't work out.
3. Expect the mentor to know all the answers.
4. Commit yourself to obligations you cannot keep.
5. Cancel meetings/visits with your mentor at the last minute.
6. Expect mentors to attend meetings at last minute notice.