Professional Mentor: 16 students + 20 mentors
The Higher School of Computer Science of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) at the Ciudad Real Campus has developed a new Professional Mentor Program, a pioneer in the academic institution, based on which professionals who were trained at the center will advise students of the latest courses to facilitate their entry into the world of work.
Future students at the Escuela Superior de Informática (ESI) in Ciudad Real will have a new strategy to help them enter the labor market once they finish their studies. Its about Professional Mentor Program, a pioneering initiative at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and which is based on the participation of graduates of the School with consolidated professional experience who accompany and advise the students of the last courses with a view to their incorporation into the market. labor.
As explained by those responsible for the Professional Mentor program of the Higher School of Informatics, it is about articulating a guidance and support service that helps those who are about to finish their degree to prepare their integration into the labor market and progressively build their professional identity thanks to the experience and knowledge of the person who exercises professional mentoring and the development of qualities such as leadership, entrepreneurship, communication or responsibility. The initiative has raised such good expectations in the center that three months before the start of the new course, a total of sixteen students and more than twenty mentors have already signed up.
This professional mentoring initiative completes the Mentor Program that the School has been developing since the 2015/2016 academic year and in which veteran students accompany newly recruited students in solving administrative tasks, teaching doubts or questions related to university life. Supported by an average of ninety students, the Mentor Program is characterized by the solidarity, altruism and competence of service to the community of the people involved.
These two mentoring programs among students are complemented by the Personalized Tutoring Program, basically aimed at enhancing the abilities of the students, strengthening the weaknesses that arise in the learning processes and providing academic guidance that can facilitate the student's decision-making in relation to to the training options offered by the University. In this case, it is the teaching staff who carry out the orientation work, personally developing a Personalized Tutoring Plan through group or individual meetings.
