Intro

We’re starting up a mentoring scheme for our community following requests from members.

Should I become a mentor?

Mentoring can improve your leadership skills, help you get experience managing and mentoring others is a great way of supporting the SiT community. Lack of diversity in tech is a huge problem and participating in this scheme is one way of helping address that.

Some things that mentees might get out of being mentored by you are:

• Advice on starting a career or career progression
• Ideas on how to approach specific problems or challenges
• Insight into what it’s like to work in the tech industry
• Build Confidence
• Access to your networks and contacts
• Cultural capital
• Increased ambition and drive

What a mentor is not:

• Mentoring is not coaching, training, counselling or therapeutic in nature.
• A mentor does not decide, tell or instruct a mentee on what to do
• A mentor does not always have the right answer

Who the mentees will be:

Students or professionals who have been in the industry for 3 years or less. They will all be members of the SiT Slack community.

What we need from you as a mentor:

• Complete the attached form with a short description of your strengths, experience and what you could offer to a mentee. This information will be used to help us match mentor to mentee.