Preparing the Mentees
Preparing the Mentees
For mentees, mentoring shapes personal development, career guidance, career choice, and research production, including publication and grant success.
Finding Mentors
Mentor-Mentee Matching criteria may include:
- Similar levels of interest in engaging in the mentoring process.
- Availability (time, distance) for planned meetings.
- Skill set (e.g., expertise pertinent to areas of needs identified by the mentee).
- Relevant research, clinical, education, and teaching interests of the mentor.
- Personal characteristics (e.g., personality, approach, life experiences).
- Formal mentor education.
A Network of Mentors
Some mentoring programs go beyond matching mentees with mentors and into establishing mentoring networks for their mentees, within or outside of the department/division/unit, or even the institution. Such networks often provide a new perspective or approach to thinking about one’s work.