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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.
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.
Developing SMART Goals Worksheet
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.
Undergraduate 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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!