The mentoring programme run by ESADE Alumni Careers aims to put professionals with extensive experience in a specific area (mentors) in touch with professionals who can benefit from their experience, advice and support (mentees) within a mentoring framework that can help them further their careers.
Looking for a career change? Ask for a career guidance interview here before initiating a mentoring process.
You might also be interested in Contact With, a service designed to put cardbearing alumni with a specific one-off need in contact with other members of the network.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A MENTOR?
1. Request to join the programme here. 2. Once you have signed up, ESADE Alumni Careers will contact you to find out more about your profile and availability 3. When mentees contact you, you will decide if their profile matches yours.
To be mentors professional members of ESADE Alumni must: - have pertinent and sharable experience in a specific area - be willing to share information and knowledge.
- Advisors with experience who are willing to share their knowledge - Helpers able to provide emotional encouragement - Tutors able to give specific information about their own activities - Sponsors, information sources that help pinpoint opportunities - Identity models
Willingness to share and a desire to learn are two distinguishing features of mentors - professionals selflessly committed to developing the potential of the ESADE community.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A MENTEE?
1. In November, February and May mentee candidates can apply to take part in the programme. For more information contact alumnicareerbcn@esade.edu 2. Once you have signed up, ESADE Alumni Careers will contact you to find out about your current situation and offer guidance about how to find the mentor best suited to your current needs. 3.Request matching
You can be a mentee if you are an ESADE Alumni member, enterprising, keen to develop your start-ups and interested in improving your skills, competences and knowledge.
- State their needs and areas with room for improvement honestly. - Be proactive in the relationship with the mentor. - Be responsible for their own learning. - Be willing to invest in themselves and willing to implement the personal and professional changes that will affect them. - Be self critical and willing to receive feedback. Willing to accept criticism professionally.
Notes:
The mentor decides the level and amount of information to be conveyed and is under no obligation to offer the mentee a job or contacts. The amount of help provided is always at the mentor's discretion.
At the end of the process, the mentor and mentee must complete a short questionnaire to evaluate the programme.
ESADE Alumni Careers is keen to ensure the quality and good functioning of the Mentoring Programme. If you have any queries during the process, please contact us alumnicareerbcn@esade.edu.
