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Mentorship!
"Meeting" your career!
Mentor Mixer Thurs. 3/6 at 6pm
*Mandatory*
Mentorship
Having a mentor...
Conversation with someone who made it through and will give you information and advice.
It is an effective research tool in addition to reading books, exploring the Internet and examining job descriptions.
*Someone who provides additional support!
Benefits:
Benefits of Informational Interviewing
- FIRSTHAND relevant information about the realities of working within a particular field, industry or position. This kind of information is not always available online.
- Find out about career paths you did not know existed.
- Get tips about how to prepare for and enter a given career.
- Learn what it’s like to work at a specific organization.
- Initiate a professional relationship and expand your network of contacts in a specific career field; meet people who may forward job leads to you in the future.
Benefits:
Steps:
1. Meet your mentor at the mixer
2. Schedule a meeting
3. Meet with them
4. Write a paper!
5. Explore your feelings about your academic and career goals!
Explore
Explore your feelings about your academic and career goals!
Explore
Mentor Component Assignment
100 points
Explore cont.
You will write a paper (ENGL) and present (PD).
*Please go off ENGL-101C dates to arrange all this*
1. Email/text/call (contact) mentor and arrange "meeting" date (35 points) - will lose points for last min.
2. Meeting with mentor (30 points)
3. Five min max minute presentation (35 points)
Follow-up
Follow-up
- Keep your notes.
- Right after the interview write down what you learned, what more you'd like to know and your impressons of how this industry, field or position would fit with your lifestyle, interests, skills and future plans.
- Send a thank-you note
- 1-2 days
- Express your appreciation for the time and information given.
- Based on whether the informational interview was relatively informal or more businesslike, this may be a brief handwritten note or an email.
- Keep in touch with the person
- Especially if you had a particularly nice interaction;
- let him or her know that you followed up on their advice and how things are going as a result.
- This relationship could become an important part of your network.
Contact
them to set up a meeting!
Contact
It is your responsibility to make sure it happens!
Preferably in a group (if you are sharing a mentor).
Please COMMUNICATE <3
can check-in w/me
Let's practice!
Let's practice!
Sample Telephone Script for Requesting an Informational Interview
"Hello. My name is _______ and I'm a Puente Student at Ohlone College majoring in _______. Is this a good time for you to talk briefly? I have become very interested in ________(career) and would like to learn more about the field. Would it be possible to schedule 30 minutes with you at your convenience to ask a few questions and get your advice on how best to prepare to enter the field?"
Appropriate meetings:
Appropriate meetings:
- At their office! (during their work time)
- Facetime/Zoom during their work time
- At a cafe (Panera, Sbux, Suju's)
- So not expect for them to pay, and they do not expect you to pay
- On campus
- my office, Puente office/space, or the lobby
Meeting
You will interview them and ASK GOOD questions
- Refer to emailed list of questions
- Gives you a good sense of profession
Meeting
During
During
- Dress neatly and appropriately, as you would for a job interview.
- Arrive on time or a few minutes early.
- Give a brief overview of yourself
- Be prepared, but also let the conversation flow naturally.
- Take notes
- Respect your mentor's time.
PLEASE
- Be kind, respectful and responsible (no ghosting + no last min. contact)
- Make sure we keep this mentor <3