Mentoring Programme
The mentoring programme has been run by the Academic Career Office of the University of Wrocław for over ten years.
What is a mentoring programme? It is an informal relationship between a mentor (an experienced professional with high professional competences who wants to share their knowledge and experience) and a mentee (a student of the University of Wrocław).
This informal relationship involves six months of intensive, joint work on the mentee’s professional goals. Meetings, conversations, but also joint projects during which the mentee gets to know their mentor’s professional environment, career path, successes and failures. This often involves involving the mentee in the mentor’s daily work, showing them the real face of business and real professional challenges. Visits to the mentor’s company, participation in conferences and networking events.
Recruitment for the 13th edition is currently underway. Until 3 December, students can read the biographies of mentors and apply. This year, 59 specialists from various industries are waiting for them.
Who are the mentors? They are representatives of large corporations, foundations, associations, start-ups and sole traders. They run their businesses in Wrocław, throughout Poland and Europe. They have different professional experiences, educational backgrounds and career paths. What they have in common is a desire to support young people and a deep conviction about the importance and effectiveness of mentoring. Many of them had mentors themselves in the past and see their work with students at the University of Wrocław as a way of repaying that debt. In addition, this edition of the programme includes mentors from among our employees – lecturers at the University of Wrocław who are ready to support and lead mentoring processes.
The comments of the programme’s graduates show that their participation in the project has brought them tangible benefits, ranging from discovering their strengths and assets to clarifying their career vision. They repeatedly emphasised what they consider to be the extraordinary strength and power of the programme: unique relationships with other people, better understanding of themselves and the expectations and specifics of the labour market.
For more information, visit the website of the Academic Career Office: ‘Success is the result of the right decision,’ wrote Euripides. Since the first edition of the programme, over 530 students of the University of Wrocław have made this decision.
