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eMentoring

Further to our invitation to all OHs to sign up for our eMentoring capability we are supporting its successful launch at the Careers Fair in March by recruiting more OH mentors to enable the Society and the School  to assist the career development of its young alumni.

To date over 100 UVI students have already registered their interest in being helped by an OH mentor, whilst more than 40 OHs have volunteered as mentors. This is a fantastic start! Thank you to all those who have signed up.

The concept is quite simple and very straightforward to manage: we have the facility via the alumni pages at hailsoc.net to offer Old Haileyburians who believe they have something to offer in terms of experience and success in their careers the opportunity to help a younger generation to achieve a similar level of advancement within their chosen field.

When you log on to the platform, you are asked to build your profile, just as you would for any social networking site. The main difference with our platform is that, having built a profile, alumni have the option to search for, or to become, a mentor, which gives the potential to offer advice, guidance and perhaps moral support to other OHs.

The level of commitment is set by the mentor: you can determine how many (or how few!) mentees you have at any one time and what form the help you are prepared to give should take, whether by email, telephone, or face to face, even whether you can offer any workplace experience, such as a taster day, shadowing or an internship. And of course you can decide when you wish to change your status or cease mentoring. From the mentee perspective, the searches include search by profession and location, and can display prospective mentor locations on a map.

The whole platform is designed for the parties to manage their mentor/mentee relationship in a way that suits them.

So do please have a look at the website and see for yourself. It doesn’t take much time to have a positive influence on a young person’s life and is a great way for Old Haileyburians to “give something back” to the College by giving others the benefit of their experience. Haileybury has a longstanding tradition of service and this is a really positive way in which the extended OH community can work together to further professional development and career prospects.

http://www.hailsoc.net/

Originally Written: 14-May-2014 09:35, Last Updated: 01-Apr-2015 14:16