Personal & Professional Transitions
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Mentor pairs: What is the next step?
Find tips for how you and your partner can reflect on what was meaningful about your experience. Plus, will you keep in touch and how will you mark this transition?
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Work transitions
Great tips to prepare students for workplace culture and expectations and how mentors can prepare for and learn about themselves through professional transitions.
In conversation, does your mind stray off topic? Do you experience interruptions? Do you loose control of the conversation? These active listening skills will help you manage conversations in a way that reveal the broader goals of mentoring while fostering deeper understanding, reflection, learning, and action.
This tip sheet suggests networking ideas such as who to include in your network; how to develop and implement a networking plan; how to "break the ice" when trying to meet new potential contacts; and how to record all those pesky details that arise from your networking conversations. Start being an intentional networker today!
How do you give and receive feedback? Read about some creative approaches that mentors can use when giving feedback to their proteges about the mentor experience or their vocational/academic goals. Students also get excellent tips for listening and responding to feedback.
Professionalism & Interviewing Skills
This guide offers both mentors and students some helpful ways to think about the interview process. What skill sets are employers looking for? What will they discover about your attitude? And how to respond to those tricky behavioral interview questions? Plus, get the low-down on job shadowing, interview pitfalls to avoid, and how to exude professionalism.
Not sure how to describe your "dream career"? Start a career journal with the ideas suggested in this guide and explore what you're passionate about, what do you talk about the most, what are relevant qualities you should nurture, etc. And then share some of your insights with your mentor.