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Starting off on the Right Paw
Guiding Mentoring Principles
These guiding mentoring principles will help each mentee and mentor lay a solid foundation for their mentorship.
How to Request A Mentor
Unsure of how to request a UGA mentor? No need to sweat! Just use this resource as a framework to construct your mentor request.
Initial Conversation Guide
This document is meant to be an exercise to ensure that both the mentee and mentor have clearly defined expectations and goals.
How can a mentor help me?
Use this resource to reflect on your needs, interests, and goals to determine how a mentor can assist you on your personal and professional journey.
Mentee Communication Guide
Need some guidance on how to get started or how to effectively communicate with your mentor? Look no further! This Communication Guide has everything you need to communicate effectively with your mentor.
For Mentees
Mentoring Conversation Guide
Use this guide to strategically prepare and plan your discussions with your UGA Mentor. This is a great resource to help your drive your mentoring relationship!
Questions to Ask Your Mentor
Are you not quite sure of potential questions you can ask your UGA mentor? Don't worry; we got you covered. Use this resource as a guide to strategically plan for your mentoring interactions.
SMART Goals and Action Steps
Articulating clear goals is critical to the success of a mentorship relationship. Use this resource to craft your SMART goals and to develop a goal-oriented mindset.
Knowing Your Skills Activity
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) developed a definition and identified competencies/career readiness skills associated with career readiness for the new college graduate. Discuss with your mentor how to enhance these competencies.
Quick Chat Guide
A Quick Chat is an opportunity to spend time with a mentor in your career field of interest. They may also be useful in a graduate or professional school search as you seek to find the best program fit for your academic and professional goals. Quick Chats can help you to:
• Build your network
• Explore potential career paths
• Tap into the hidden job market
• Learn unpublished details about a specific company, organization, or schoolUndergraduate Student: Career Development Plan
Have you designed a career development plan? We got you covered! Review this resource with your mentor.
Master's Student: Career Development Plan
Have you designed a career development plan? We got you covered! Review this resource with your mentor.
Doctoral Student: Career Development Plan
Have you designed a career development plan? We got you covered! Review this resource with your mentor.
Topics and Strategies for Aspiring Faculty Members
Discuss these topics and strategies with your mentor if you are interested in pursuing a career in academia.
Life Plans & Goals
This resource is intended to help you plan your future aspirations (personal, finance, and health) and actualize the steps to successfully meet your goals.
Building Your Personal Board of Directors
Each mentor that you have can make a difference in your life in a new way. From a coach, to a role model, to a challenger, to a cheerleader, each mentor will fill a new role or multiple roles throughout your journey. Use this document to help keep track of the different roles that each of your mentors plays in your story.
Thoughts from UGA Mentors
Click here to read what UGA Mentors have to say about their experience with their mentees.
For Mentors
Questions to Ask Your Mentee
Are you not quite sure of potential questions you can ask your UGA Mentee? Don't worry, we got you covered! Use this resource as a guide to strategically plan for your mentoring interactions.
GROW Model of Coaching and Mentoring
The GROW Model is a simple yet powerful framework for structuring your coaching or mentoring sessions.
Mentoring Tips from UGA Mentors
UGA Mentors convened to discuss some of their best mentoring practices and how to address challenges that might arise throughout the mentorship process. This resource provides an inside look into what they had to say.
Mentoring International Students
This resource helps you take cultural differences into consideration and provides strategies to assist in becoming a cultural mentor who can form a mutually beneficial relationship with a multi-faceted international student.
Mentoring Students with Disabilities
This resource helps define disabilities, provides tips for disability etiquette and identifies disability resources on campus for students.
Responding to Student Needs
This is a user-friendly resource in case your mentee may be experiencing a general, academic, care, and/or crisis need. Note: If you are in contact with a student who appears to be an immediate threat to his or her own safety or that of others, please call 911.
Mentoring Guide
This mentoring guide provides you with tools to transition from a good mentor to a great mentor.
Internship Guide
Curious to know what it takes to design a meaningful and effective internship for your mentee? Check out this comprehensive guide!
Circles of Success FAQs
Are you interested in learning more about our Circles of Success? Click here for more information!
For Mentees and Mentors
Mock Interview Instrument
We strongly encourage you and your mentor to conduct a mock interview. Please check out this mock interview instrument!
Career Planning Form
Have you thought about the legacy you want to leave? Reflect and discuss with your mentee/mentor about your legacy, short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals.
Suggested Activities and Discussion Topics
Looking for activities or topics to discuss with your mentoring connection? This list of suggestions will equip you with numerous ideas!
Student Resources
Review this list of comprehensive resources with your mentee/mentor to learn about all of your resources at UGA.
Closure Conversation Guide
Use this guide to facilitate a closure conversation and celebrate the end of your successful mentorship.
Thoughts from UGA Mentees
What are current UGA Mentees saying about the UGA Mentor Program? Click here to check it out!
Mentoring Articles
8 Tips for an Amazing Mentorship
Here are some pieces of advice on mentorship, with perspectives from successful tech professionals who have seen its benefits firsthand.
7 Reasons You Need a Mentor for Entrepreneurial Success
Seven reasons why having a mentor is essential for entrepreneurial success.
Great Mentors Focus on the Whole Person
An Harvard Business Review article that provides analysis and advice on how to mentor the whole person, extending beyond career to include discussions about behavior, values, relationships, finances, etc. Mentoring the whole person takes more effort, more time, and more intentionality.
The Importance of Mentorships in Higher Education
Dr. Ronald A. Crutcher and Dr. Christopher B. Howard highlight the importance of mentorship in higher education.
Demystifying Mentoring
This Harvard Business Review article demystifies the concept of mentoring and provides three case studies.
Mentoring: Learned, Not Taught
Becoming a good mentor takes practice and reflection. Reflecting on the following areas as your mentoring relationships evolve may help you avoid some common mistakes and hasten your arrival at a mentoring style and philosophy that is your own.
Mentoring Research Writers
As a mentor you have a great opportunity to encourage your trainees to set high goals for their research writing and to help them achieve those goals. You should recognize, in fact, that you have a serious responsibility to motivate and to help researchers-in-training become excellent writers.
What Efficient Mentorship Looks Like
Adaira Landry, MD MEd is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s hospital & Resa E. Lewiss, MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, share strategies on how to go farther on the journey as a mentor.
Career Resources
Arch Ready Certificate Program
The Arch Ready Certificate program covers a wide range of professional development topics, ranging from resume writing and interviewing to choosing a major and pursuing your dream job.
Handshake
It is highly recommended that most students utilize UGA’s job board – Handshake – as their primary resource when searching for jobs, part-time work, or internships.
Intern for a Day
The UGA Career Center’s Intern For A Day Program is a volunteer "job shadowing" opportunity for students to spend 1 day observing and often working with professionals, investigating a career field and experiencing a typical day or week on the job.
Interstride
Interstride is the free, one-stop-shop for job searching as an international student! Interstride contains informational videos to increase your knowledge on job-searching, and provides you with up-to-date information on visas and immigration, customizable checklists, career insights, and an online job board. This platform is an excellent way to be intentional, organized, and efficient in your job search.
UGA Career Guides
The UGA Career Center's "Career Guides" are one of many tools to assist you in your career exploration and planning. These resources will not only give you information about the Career Center and the Career Consultants, but it will also provide you with information about campus recruiting, interviewing, resume writing, cover letter writing, and graduate school. Our Career Guides also include information on Handshake, informational interviewing, and how to write a curriculum vitae. Be sure to check out these valuable resources and discuss them with your mentor(s).
Exploring Majors & Careers
The UGA Mentor Program and Career Center are here to help you in your exploration to find a major and career path right for you. Use the resources found here to assist in your major and career discovery process, and discuss options and possibilities with your mentor!
Career Diversity & Inclusion Resources
The Career Center and UGA Mentor Program is committed to serving all students at UGA. We are excited to provide resources for any UGA student who values diversity and inclusion. These resources and events focus on topics including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, first-generation college students, ability, class, and other identity-based experiences.
Hire UGA
The Career Center's Employer Relations team is dedicated to facilitating your recruitment efforts. Whether scheduling on-campus interviews, attending career fairs, or meeting faculty, our staff will do whatever it takes to make your recruitment efforts successful. Utilizing Handshake, UGA’s free job posting service, will help get your organization’s full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities to Georgia’s best and brightest!
UGA Mentor Program Year-in-Review
AY 2020-2021 Year in Review
The UGA Mentor Program, the University's first comprehensive mentorship initiative, allows students (undergraduate, graduate, & professional)to form meaningful mentoring relationships with experienced alumni.
This review provides insight into the program'sgrowth and impact that has been achieved over the2020-2021 academic year. As we look to the future,our primary focus is to continue fostering a culture ofmentoring across the University and to expandmentorship for underrepresented students.
AY 2019-2020 Year in Review
The UGA Mentor Program, the University's first comprehensive mentorship initiative, allows students to form meaningful mentoring relationships with experienced alumni. The program launched on August 21, 2019, and has far exceeded many of its inaugural key performance indicators (KPI), thanks to the University community.
This review provides insight into the program's growth and impact that has been achieved over the 2019-2020 academic year. As we look to the future, our primary focus is to foster a culture of mentoring across the University.
AY 2021-2022 Year in Review
The UGA Mentor Program, the University's first comprehensive mentorship initiative, allows students (undergraduate, graduate, & professional) to form meaningful mentoring relationships with experienced alumni, faculty and staff.
This review provides insight into the program's growth and impact that has been achieved over the 2021-2022 academic year. As we look to the future, our primary focus is to continue fostering a culture of mentoring across the University and to expand mentorship for underrepresented students.
AY 2022-2023 Year in Review
The UGA Mentor Program, the University's first comprehensive mentorship initiative, allows students (undergraduate, graduate, & professional) to form meaningful mentoring relationships with experienced alumni, faculty and staff. This review provides insight into the program's growth and impact that has been achieved over the 2021-2022 academic year. As we look to the future, our primary focus is to continue fostering a culture of mentoring across the University and to expand mentorship for underrepresented students.
AY 2023-2024 Year in Review
The UGA Mentor Program, the University's first comprehensive mentorship initiative, allows students (undergraduate, graduate, & professional) to form meaningful mentoring relationships with experienced alumni, faculty and staff. This review provides insight into the program's growth and impact that has been achieved over the 2022-2023 academic year. As we continue our program, we will celebrate our 5th Birthday, develop new ways for students and mentors to engage, and expand mentorship across the University.
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