Mentoring Pathways

Birkbeck’s Mentoring Pathways gives final-year students the opportunity to engage in a mentoring relationship with alumni and corporate volunteers. These mentoring relationships provide students with guidance, advice and support as they navigate the steps to their future careers and professional development goals.

Mentors are drawn from our Birkbeck graduates and corporate partners working in a diverse range of professions and industries. Current organisations and partnerships include Arts Council England, Clifford Chance, Goldman Sachs and Unum.

Why become a mentor?

By becoming a mentor, you support Birkbeck's diverse student community and can improve your own skills such as coaching and active listening. You'll also attend a CPD-accredited mentoring training session.

Why become a mentee?

If you're a student, by working with a mentor you will develop vital skills to support your future career, gain advice on identifying and achieving your goals and expand your professional network.

What's involved?

• Mentors and mentees are hand-matched based on their interests and careers
• Mentors and mentees are required to attend an online training session in November. Then between December and June, meet your mentee once a month for an hour-long mentoring session, either online or in-person
• Invitations to events including a mid-programme feedback session and a celebration event to mark the end of the programme

Mentoring testimonials

'Being a mentor is a responsibility of being actively present in your mentee’s life in order to virtually walk alongside them as they pursue their goals and aspirations. Yet, this responsibility comes with benefits. By facilitating your mentee’s career and personal journey you broaden your own perspective and life experience. Together, you navigate unique challenges, some of which you might never have encountered on your own path.'

- Inna Kucherenko, Mentor

How to apply

Final year students: Register here to sign up for Mentoring Pathways

Alumni: Register here to become a Mentoring Pathways volunteer