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MIDDLESEX MENTORING SCHEME
The Middlesex Mentoring Scheme (MMS) provides individuals who are
successfully established in their careers the opportunity to
engage with those who are just starting out. If you would like to
share some of your hard-earned experience and your knowledge of
the local career market with undergraduates keen to develop
greater self awareness and career focus, we would like to hear
from you.
Mentoring is a formal, in-depth partnership in which mentors offer
advice, information, ideas, support, encouragement, reflection,
practical hints and tips to help mentees develop skills,
confidence and strategies for effective career planning. If
mentors work in a job or sector of interest to the mentee, then
specific job and industry information can also be given; however
this is by no means the main focus of mentoring.
Timings of mentoring relationships are flexible by nature but they
can last from a few months to a year. The length of time depends
on the progress of the relationship and how mentors and mentees
relate to each other. It may be helpful to have a face-to-face
meeting at least once a month.
We are offering the MMS to our final year undergraduate students
in addition to postgraduate students from our Masters courses.
Mentors will be invited to participate from our alumni (Dubai and
UK), industry contacts and the wider community.
Guidance and preparation
If you would like to volunteer your time as a mentor, you will be
provided with a self-directed learning CD that has been designed
to introduce you to the mentoring relationship. We will also
provide you with further guidelines of what is involved within the
context of this professional relationship.
If you would like to find out more, please fill out the
CES
Mentor Registration Form or alternatively contact
Becky Kilsby, Manager of the Careers and Employability Service:
b.kilsby@mdx.ac 04 3612897
INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEWS
As an established professional you may be willing to share
your career knowledge in a one-off informational interview. This
would involve 15 – 30 minutes of your time spent with one of our
undergraduate or postgraduate students who is interested in
discovering more about your career role, your sector, current
developments and challenges and how to enter a career in your
field.
If you would like to make yourself available for these occasional
meetings, your details would be entered in the Careers and
Employability database and passed on to interested students
approved by the CES who would contact you to arrange a time and
place that would best suit you.
To take part, please fill out the
CES
Informational Interview Form or alternatively send
your name, career role, organization (name and address),
qualifications and contact details to: Becky Kilsby
b.kilsby@mdx.ac 04 3612897 |
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