• Follow us on Twitter
  • Join our Facebook Group

University Survival

  • Student Success Skills
    • Picking a College
    • Financing Your Education
    • Choosing a Major
    • Preparing for College
    • Managing the Personal Side of the Transition to College
    • Developing Discipline to Do Well
    • Managing the Social Side of College
    • Being an Efficient Learner
    • Taking Tests
    • Ensuring You Receive The Grade You Want
    • Managing Group Projects
    • Becoming a Campus Leader
    • Student Athletes
    • Navigating College Practices
    • Succeeding on Internships and Co-ops
    • Making Critical Decisions
    • Overcoming Challenges for Specific Types of Students
    • Setting Goals
    • Being an International Student In The United States
    • Using Resources
    • Communication Skills for College Graduates
    • Building a Professional Network
    • Using LinkedIn to Develop Your Network
    • Preparing for a Career
    • Understanding Job Protocols
    • Developing Essential Career Skills
    • Becoming a Leader
    • Overcoming Career Challenges
    • Planning for your Financial Future
  • Parent Connections
    • Parent Topics
      • Being a Supportive Parent
      • Making Critical Decisions
      • Financing Your Student’s Education
    • Parent Emails
  • Teacher Resources
  • Resources
  • Community
  • About
You are here: Student Success Skills » Navigating College Practices » Finding a Mentor

Student Success Skills

Finding a Mentor

by jack
July 13, 2012

A mentor is someone who you can turn to for a variety of advice concerning professional and personal issues. Your advisor can be your mentor, but this isn’t always the case. A mentor can be another faculty member, a staff person, or a professional connection from outside the university.

The qualities you want to find in a mentor include:

  • Someone who will spend time with you
  • Someone who will always give you unbiased advice
  • Someone who will always be there for you

Mentoring relationships develop naturally, but there are some common stages the mentoring process goes through.

Stage 1
Initial meeting. The initial meeting occurs in any number of ways. The key to this meeting is that there seems to be a natural connection.

Stage 2
Advice session one. You ask your mentor for advice about some issue. Typically this advice session will be one where your mentor learns more about you. Also the scope of the advice can expand beyond your initial issue. Often in directions you never realized.

Stage 3
You take the advice and it turns out very well. You let your mentor know how valuable the advice was.

Stage 4
You continue to turn to your mentor for help.

What’s in it for the mentor? A true mentor enjoys helping young people develop their full potential. Seeing your progress can be a tremendous reward.

← Meeting with Your Advisor
Using the Correct Titles →

Suggest a Topic

Looking for a topic and can't find it? Why not submit one...

Suggest a Topic

Share This

Rate This Topic

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...

Testimonials

  • My biggest improvement is that I have been checking my grades, instead of burying my head and trying to ignore the classes I know I am doing bad in.  This semester my grades don't necessarily show improvement at midterms because once again I wasn't prepared for the first round of exams.  That really came back to bite me because in a few classes that was the only grade on the midterms.  But since I have been keeping track, I have been doing everything in my power to make the grades better.  I did all my on-line homework for a few classes so that I would not have to worry about keeping track of when they are due, and I have been keeping a to-do list for studying and things like that..

Sign Up For Student Emails

Sign up for Student Emails

Enter your email below to get weekly student emails.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Suggest a Topic

Looking for a topic and can't find it? Why not submit one...

Suggest a Topic

Share This

Sign Up For Parent Emails

Sign up for Parent Emails

Enter your email below to get weekly parent emails.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Suggest a Topic

Looking for a topic and can't find it? Why not submit one...

Suggest a Topic
© Copyright - University Survival