4 Responsibilities

The key to success for students is to commit time and effort toward developing their future careers by taking full advantage of this unique opportunity. Students should supply their mentor with feedback and be open to receiving advice and coaching from the mentor.

4.1 Mentee Responsibilities

  • Be accountable for introducing yourself to your mentor, initiating future conversations and upholding all commitments
  • Determine your interests, skills and goals and share these with your mentor
  • Attend at least one activity with your mentor each semester (see Chapter 6 for a calendar of events)
  • Ask for help and guidance; seek out the information needed for your career development
  • Communicate any academic concerns that you might want assistance working through
  • Accept both praise and constructive criticism
  • Follow through on any referrals/recommendations made by your mentor

Please allow your Mentor at least 24 hours to respond to emails/texts and requests.

If you wish to opt out of the mentoring program, please contact our program director.

4.2 Mentor Responsibilities

Mentors take a leadership role within the Mentor program, they are meant to provide guidance and support to incoming members of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology program. Mentors have the responsibility to make themselves available to their mentee and guide them through this new experience within the below stated guidelines.

  1. Work with the mentee in developing an Individual Development Plan (IDP; Chapter 8))

  2. Stay accessible, committed, and engaged during the length of the program

  3. Setting and agreeing on frequency of meeting times according to needs/wants/availability
    • In-person meet-ups
    • Over the phone “meet-ups”
    • Being accessible to mentee when help is needed, and encourage mentee to attend office hours when they need help when the mentor is not available.
  4. Addressing boundaries related to academic support
    • Time frame to request and provide help such as hours and days available
    • Boundaries regarding personal information provided (cell number, personal email, etc)
    • What type of academic support is okay to request and provide
  5. Inform mentees about the importance of Networking and extracurricular events.
    • As part of encouraging mentees to attend extracurricular events, it is also important for them to inform mentees of the importance of these events in the development of one’s career within our field.
    • Encourage mentees to attend developmental events outside the program (For example, SIOP, monthly METROs, Career/job fairs, ect.). More information about this will be provided through the event calendar 8.
    • Provide support getting to events, such as METRO and career fairs (if possible).
  6. Cultivate professionalism
    • Mentor should help mentee search and prepare for internship opportunities (if needed by mentee)
    • Mentors should model professional behavior to set the example for mentees (this includes acting professionally at events, communicating professionally with professors, professionals, and peers).
  7. Attend office hours on scheduled days and times1
    • Mentors will have office hours every week, in which they are expected to be available for any first year student that might need help or have questions related to the program.
    • Mentors need to attend their office hours every week, if for some reason they are unable to attend they should find someone to replace them during this time.
  1. If mentor has any questions or concerns that may arise, let Eagle I.O. know to be able to provide support and guidance.
    • As a mentor it is your responsibility to try to connect with your mentee and offer help, but if your mentee is not being responsive, then you should reach out to Eagle I.O in order to take further action.
    • As a mentor, if you feel that you do not connect with your mentee, you can request a change that will be beneficial for youth mentor and mentee, so that everyone feels comfortable with who they are partnered with.
    • Establish communication to the group through group email, or reach out to any member (members need to let everyone else in the group know and make a decision together)
  2. Mentors participate in the program willingly, but once they commit to participating in the program they need to stay on board for the remainder of the semester unless there is an emergent situation. If mentors plan on leaving the program they need to communicate this to Eagle I.O as soon as possible so that arrangements can be made for the following semester.

4.3 Coordinator Roles and Responsibilities (Eagle I.O’s responsibilities in the mentoring program)

  1. Define the goals and objectives for the mentoring program that relate directly to the organization’s leadership
    • Creation and consistent updating of the Mentorship Program Guide (or whatever we actually title it) [Handbook?]
  2. Ensure the corporate mentoring program is created and sustained
    • Focus on succession planning within the group
    • Consistently recruit and educate those in the graduate program about mentoring program [(including professors?)]

  3. Review and make thorough and consistent evaluations of the mentees’ progress at group meetings

  4. Match mentors and mentees based information collected on individual surveys administered by the team
    • Once data is collected a group meeting will be held to assess the results and match based strictly on commonalities between the mentee and mentor pools
    • Once mentee and mentor relationships are established further instructions will be given to the mentors on when they should begin contacting their mentees
  5. Define clear expectations [(and goals?)] of the program’s purpose, and effectively communicate these expectations to both the mentors and mentees
    • Create and distribute the Mentorship Program Guide (or whatever we actually title it)
    • Provide both mentors and mentees with information of how to reach the program coordinators regarding any questions or concerns info@eagleio.org

  6. Collaborate to create a calendar of Industrial-Organizational Psychology program related events (METRO, office hours, meetings, events)

  7. Develop New Student Orientation procedures, events and necessary materials

  8. Meet regularly to discuss progress, concerns, or setbacks regarding the mentors, mentees or the program itself

4.4 Leadership Support/Responsibilities

  1. Educate key leaders and faculty on the benefits of the program and professional value to the students

  2. Post in student newspapers, websites, social media pages, and student organization participants

  1. DG: Is this something we decided to implement or just an idea you guys had to possibly implement? Sorry if I missed that(: If it was a proposal maybe we can be sure to talk about it at our next meeting Rn: so this is something we discussed last semester, we talked about having certain times during the week that we are on campus and mentees can drop by and ask questions. What I am thinking is maybe it doesn’t need to be a formal schedule, but we can just let them know where we hang out when we are here ex. Dr. Dans or Dr. Kulas’s lab and they can drop by D: I think having it more informal would be a good idea.↩