Become a mentor
Interested in making a real contribution to the next generation of professionals? The University runs a 10-week Professional Mentoring programme, delivered three times across the academic year.
What
Mentoring programme delivered across 10 weeks¹
Who
Businesses, organisations and individual professionals
When
Multiple programmes throughout the year
Cost
No financial cost
What is BCU's mentoring programme?
BCU’s mentoring programme offers individual professionals, employees, and leaders of businesses and organisations the opportunity to develop their skills and expertise as mentors, whilst helping to focus and shape career-ready BCU graduates.
¹Our flexible mentoring programme has been designed to work around your busy schedule, enabling you to deliver bite-sized guidance to emerging graduates for a minimum of five hours across a ten week period.
How does the programme work?
When you become a mentor at Birmingham City University, you will receive training and guidance from our mentoring programme team to help you deliver the best possible support to one of our student or graduate mentees.
You will be introduced to your mentee who you will guide and grow over the ten week programme.
Your support for your mentee can be shared through a series of catch-ups, either face to face or through our secure online platform, and they can be conveniently and flexibly arranged at times that work for you.
Though a minimum of five hours is required for successful programme completion and support delivery, we do recommend that more mentoring time is given if possible, benefiting both mentee and mentors with their development.
What will I receive when I become a mentor?
Introduction to mentee
An introduction to a BCU student or graduate mentee to kick-start your mentoring relationship.
Ongoing training and guidance
Ongoing training and guidance from our dedicated mentoring support team throughout the 10-week programme, plus online resources on MentorNet.
Access to our online mentoring platform
Our online platform makes it easy to schedule and deliver 1-2-1 sessions.
Certificate of completion
A certificate on completion of BCU’s mentoring programme signed by our VC to strengthen your professional profile.
Enquire now
Send an enquiry and a member of the team will be in touch about our mentoring scheme.
Enquire now
Women Unltd Sione Raajmakers - Co-founder
Making a difference to someone’s first steps into the industry [as a mentor] is very fulfilling. Interacting with the next generation helps me see the world and industry through their eyes.
Think Legal Recruitment Gishan Abeyratne - Associate Director
Being a mentor has been an amazing experience for me. The whole process allowed me to assess and learn things about myself, my experience and my work, for which I am very grateful.
