1:1 Mentoring

1:1 Mentoring

• Students fill up an application form indicating their long and short-term goals, and optionally, a preferred mentor.

• A few mentors are listed on Mentors Web Page, with their areas of interest, a brief statement about their work and their strengths.

• Mentoring relationship lasts about 3 months or 6 meetings. This is so that multiple students can benefit from the program.

• The AMP volunteers will match mentees and mentors based on the applications submitted by the students.

• Each mentor will mentor a small number of mentees. The mentee-mentor meeting is setup individually, at mutual convenience of mentor and mentee.

• All the mentors/mentees who participated will be requested to submit feedback about their experience after the mentoring phase concludes, which could last 2-6 months, or longer

Mentoring Sessions

• After the mentor/student match, the student and mentor set up a mutually agreeable time to meet using a voice/video conference.

• We expect that mentoring sessions should be about 30 mins - 1 hour, 2 times a month.

• Total mentoring duration could last 2 months - 6 months. After that they can mutually decide if they want to continue to meet.

Some Topics of Discussion

The most common questions from students revolve around career and next steps:

• Career Guidance

• Future Studies

• Help with entrepreneurship, technical skills, robotics, etc

• Help if the student is struggling in courses, communication skills etc.

• Any other advice that can improve a student’s life

• Improving soft skills

• Characteristics of success in academia / industry / government and so on.

• Organizing Job Search

• What are the life experiences of mentor so far

• What are the life of a software engineer/data scientist/entrepreneur… about?

• Starting a company

• Is it worth going abroad for a job? Is it worth settling there? And many more …...