MAKE AN IMPACT!
Become a Mentor and Help Students in Their Careers

You can make an important difference in a student’s life as a mentor in the Alumni and Professional Mentor Program of Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

Designed to assist our students with exploring and choosing their careers, the Alumni and Professional Mentor Program is sponsored by the Brooklyn Campus Office of Career Services. As a mentor, with even a little of your time, you can help students gain invaluable “real world” knowledge and broaden their career perspectives.

Through you, a student can learn first hand what it is like to work in a career field and can gain insights that help in making educational and professional choices. You also may be able to provide cutting-edge information about trends in your field and about career opportunities.

To help make it possible for Long Island University alumni to mentor our students, the Alumni and Professional Mentor Program offers varied options for mentor involvement, with choices to fit even the busiest schedules.

More alumni – like you – are needed to join this growing network of caring professionals. We invite you to join our team of mentors and make a contribution by sharing your experiences with Brooklyn Campus students as they prepare to begin new careers.

When you can help students at such a crucial time in their lives, you will find that mentoring is rewarding for you as well!

How the Alumni and Professional Mentor Program Works
As busy professionals most of us often wish that we could participate in notable and worthy causes but because of the demands of work and family this desire often times remains just that – a wish. This doesn’t have to be the case anymore. The Alumni and Professional Mentor Program is structured to provide a range of opportunities for involvement, with four different levels of activity:

• E-mail
• Telephone
• Personal meetings
• ‘Job shadowing’
  Each of these mentoring options allows you to share invaluable insights about your profession, while letting you choose the degree of your time commitment.

The Informational Interview
The key to these flexible options is the informational interview. Each student is coached on how to conduct an informational interview with a mentor whose experiences or career reflect the student’s professional interests. This structure helps our students prepare for discussion and make the best use of their times time with their mentors.

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E-mentoring
E-mail, combined with an informational interview, can be a powerful tool for mentoring, allowing even the busiest professional to share with a student important information that cannot be learned in a classroom.

Telephone Mentoring
Mentoring also can be done by telephone. Just like with mentoring by e-mail, telephone mentoring allows a student to conduct an informational interview with an alumnus, who can provide insights into a given profession or career path.

Face-to-Face Mentoring
In-person meetings can take place at your worksite or elsewhere. These meetings, which also utilize an informational interview, may be a better option for some people.

Job Shadowing
The Office of Career Services in conjunction with the Alumni Office and the Alumni Association co-sponsors a Job Shadowing program. This program provides students the opportunity to visit your worksite and “shadow” you, observing some of the activities of an actual day-in-the-life in your profession. Shadowing experiences are unique for every mentor and mentee, but the goal is ultimately the same – to assist students to be able to visualize themselves in their future careers.

We welcome volunteers for the job-shadowing program who can invite students to their workplace for as little as a total of five hours within a 14 week semester.