Career Mentoring

Mentoring gives students the chance to learn from people with professional experience. Our career mentoring scheme is a voluntary programme run by the Mentoring Co-ordinator, Karen Armitage, in the Jobs & Careers Service.  Students are matched with a career mentor i.e. a professional in a job role of interest to the student.It provides an opportunity for students to gain 'real world' insights into their chosen profession - who better to ask about a job than a person successfully doing it?  Mentoring offers scope for the personal and professional development of both parties, especially in areas such as leadership and communication.

Suggested time commitment to the scheme is to attend a minimum of four face-to-face meetings of approximately one hour a time during a four month period, and may additionally involve electronic mentoring.

Becoming a Mentor

Would you like to share your experience and skills and help a Leeds Met student identify their own career needs at the start of their career?

Could you:

  • Encourage independence 
  •  Give support Build confidence
  • Motivate the mentee
  • Provide advice and guidance
  • Give and receive honest & constructive feedback
  • Be a good listener & ask open questions

If you could, then why not consider volunteering to be a mentor.

When Does The Scheme Run

Selection and matching will take place throughout the year and the mentoring periods are:

  • October - January
  • February - May

Benefits for Mentees

  • Develop practical skills and confidence to enter your chosen profession
  • Networking opportunities: build personal and professional networks which could open doors that would not normally be accessible to students
  • You will get an 'insider's guide' to the application and job hunting process
  • Learn what employers are looking for when they hire graduates  

Benefits for Mentors

  • As well as the satisfaction of helping others mentors also report an increased sense of job satisfaction
  • Professional development: there is often much that mentors can learn from mentees, including fresh ideas, insights, feedback and social contact
  • Increase the profile of your organisation amongst students and University staff
  • Free training and resources which provide the tools for personal and organisational development 

Who can become involved

We welcome applications to become a mentor or mentee throughout the year and would encourage those who are interested to return the application form as soon as possible.  The scheme is available to students in their second or third year of study.

To apply please either complete and save the word document and email or post to

Karen Armitage
Mentoring Co-ordinator
Email: k.armitage@leedsmet.ac.uk
The Rose Bowl
Room 148
Portland Crescent
Leeds
LS1 3HB

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Mentoring Contact Details

Karen Armitage
Mentoring Co-ordinator
Jobs&Careers
Leeds Metropolitan University
Rose Bowl, Room 148
Portland Crescent
Leeds. LS1 3HB 
Tel: 00 44 (0)113 812 5530
Email: k.armitage@leedsmet.ac.uk
Website: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/mentoring/
In the office Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

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