For Mentees

Thank you for participating in our trial of flash mentoring on College Connect.

The role of the College in flash mentoring

The mentoring relationship exists between you the mentee and you mentor. The College provides the platform to allow the mentor/mentee relationship to be set up but remains at arms length at all times.

The College bears no liability for any advice given via flash mentoring on College Connect.

Your role as a mentee

Please be aware that you may not depend upon any advice or guidance given to you by your mentor. You must evaluate the usefulness of the advice and whether you wish to act on it or not.

It may be that the mentor you approach advises that they are not capable of assisting you in a particular area if they do not have the required background or expertise.

Remember a mentor

• must not pass on any confidential information shared by the mentee

• is not there to make decisions for you, the mentee

• must not undermine the confidence of you, the mentee or pass judgement

Finding a mentor

College Connect will suggest potential mentors for you based on the areas you nominated in your profile:

Seek Mentoring

• Finding work experience

• Finding a job

• Help with a work issue

• Work-life balance advice

• Practice area career advice

• Industry introduction

Alternatively you can just search the directory using the filters available: FIND YOUR OWN MENTOR

You can refine the results by filtering on, for example:

• The area of help you are interested in as above

• The area of practice of your potential mentor

• Their location

You can also look at their profile in more detail to see their education and work experience.

Engaging with a potential mentor

When you do find a potential mentor, please use the “Request mentoring” button to contact them rather than messaging them direct in the first instance. This helps the mentor manage the number of mentoring relationships they have at any time.

Remember, is someone has a Willing to help banner then you can confidently contact them. College Connect members are either current or past students of the College of Law as well as College staff.

QUESTIONS? FEEDBACK?

As we are trialling flash mentoring in the first instance we welcome your questions, comments and feedback to connect@collaw.edu.au

Christine Simmons & Irene Chung College Connect Community Managers