Professional Mentor Program

Professional Mentoring Program

The Professional Mentoring program is part of the Student Support, in which the Escuela Superior de Informática tries, on the one hand, to help final year students integrate into the job market and, on the other hand, to maintain links with their graduate students.

Objective:

The objective of the Program is to facilitate a link between mentor and mentee, through which the graduate (mentor) offers a guidance and support service that helps the final year student (mentee) to prepare for their integration into the labor market, providing their experience and knowledge.

Professional Mentoring is an instrument to articulate the relationship between mentor and mentee, through several iterations, in which the mentor helps to progressively build the professional identity of the mentee:

• Self appraisal: it is the first stage of the process, where the mentor asks the student a series of questions related to his vision of his professional future and that allow to determine his abilities and skills, in a quantitative way.
• Iterative meetings, aimed at enhancing their skills.
• Ending: it is the last stage of the process, at the end of the course the mentor will check the evaluation of his mentee and to what degree the different soft-skills worked on have been acquired”

The School, through this Program, can contribute to this work through specific training, both for mentors and mentees, through workshops, talks and seminars of interest. It is a voluntary and altruistic program, like the Mentor Program, and lasts one academic year.

Who are mentors and mentees and what are their responsibilities?

Mentors are students Graduates with some professional experience (List of mentors)

The mentees are volunteer students of 4th year (it is not mandatory to sign up for the program).

The responsibilities of the professional mentor are:

• Offer a guidance and accompaniment service.
• Help define the professional identity of the mentee, favoring the development of skills soft (see list below) and technological.
• Availability to maintain a minimum of 3 sessions with the mentees per course (they could be online).

And the responsibilities of the mentee:

• Attend meetings with professional mentors.
• Attend training courses taught at the School.

Master lines of the program

• Availability of mentor and mentee to hold at least 3 meetings.
• A mentor can only be linked with a mentee in an academic year.
• Mentor and mentee, they can take the list of skills as a guide for their meetings soft listed below.
• The program runs for one academic year, from September/October to May.

what are the skills soft What can be worked on between mentor/mentee?

• Leadership 
• Entrepreneurship 
• Gift of people,
• ability to empathize,
• order/organization,
• Puntuality,
• Time management 
• Teamwork 
• Communication (public speaking)
• Written communication (writing reports, manuals, etc.)
• Autodidact
• Pro-Active
• Capacity for decision-making
• Creative
• Working under pressure
• Flexible (I adapt to last minute changes)
• Puntuality
• self-reflection