Making Connections: Industry-Based Mentoring (On-Demand)
This model solves challenges that student-alumni mentoring programs traditionally face. (Recorded October, 2021)
Why This Topic Matters
Early career mentoring provides students the opportunity to receive advice and feedback on navigating professional situations and career advancement opportunities.Traditional student-alumni mentoring models struggle to maintain participant satisfaction due to mismatched expectations by students and alumni. The length of these programs can make it difficult to keep participants engaged. This new model of industry-based, short-term mentoring combats the traditional challenges of student-alumni mentoring programs, increasing student access to such programs and allowing college career centers to scale up industry-based career support for more students.
Who Should View?
This program is ideal for all higher education career services staff who are looking for a highly successful industry-based mentorship model.
Overview
In spring 2020, The Center for Student Success and Career Development at Trinity College recognized that their seniors were graduating with many uncertainties given the pandemic and job market. To better prepare them for their post-grad job search, they launched 2020 Connect, a one-month, industry-based networking program. With +80 net promoter score from student participants, they quickly realized this format was uniquely successful at combating the traditional challenges of student-alumni mentoring programs and was enabling them to scale their industry-based career support.
Not only were the students walking away with purposeful guidance and an expanded network, additionally their alumni were thrilled by the opportunity to “pay it forward” and build meaningful connections with students. In the past year, they had over 200 students participate in Connect mentoring programs. In this session, you will learn what makes this 1-month program at Trinity College so unique. You will also hear about the lessons learned from this program. The facilitator of this interactive webinar will:
Reflect on challenges of traditional student-alumni mentoring programs
Explore benefits of a month-long, industry-based model to both students and alumni
Walk through a sample format and program resources that make this program effective
Consider how to develop, promote and assess an effective and meaningful month-long program
Discuss lessons learned
Pricing and Webinar Connection Information
Live Webinar Site Connection and On-Demand Recording
Registration Cost: $379
Your Registration Includes:
5 connections for staff members from your institution with each registration (only during the health crisis)
Connection information sent one week prior to the event and again the day before the event. Any questions can be emailed to the program contact at the bottom of this web page.
An electronic link containing a recording of the webinar and resources emailed to you within 7 business days following the live webinar date (active for 30 days).
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Instructors
Emily K. Merritt, Senior Assistant Director, Center for Student Success & Career Development, Trinity College
In her current role at the Trinity College, Emily oversees Trinity’s career coaching initiatives, designs and implements the team’s career community strategy, supervises professional and student staff, manages the Career Studio and Career Development Intern program, and co-leads the Connect Mentoring program. As a career coach, she supports the career growth and development of students and alumni through program implementation, resource development, and one-on-one career coaching. In her coaching sessions, Emily aims to provide an inclusive, strengths-based, individualized environment, to encourage reflection, goal setting, and the active pursuit of meaningful experiences.
Emily has presented regionally and nationally on topics including Design Thinking, career coaching activities, and personalized career plans. Recent conference presentations include SCCA, EACE, NACE, NCDA. Emily and her UConn colleagues were the recipients of the 2016 National Association of Colleges and Employers Member’s Choice Award. Prior to arriving at Trinity, Emily was a Career Consultant for the College of Arts & Sciences at UConn. She holds an M.A. in higher education from Boston College and a B.A. in sociology from the University of Vermont.
Questions about the program?
Please email lisa@eduology.org.