Suggestions for activities
- Ask your mentor about their internship/job experience
- Talk about what you hope to learn while at MIIS
- Get advice on what skills to learn or recommendations for skill-building resources
- Get help from your mentor with establishing personal goals, and track them over the course of the program
- Discuss L10N articles, webinars, or events and your thoughts on them
- If you share a non-English language, practice speaking or writing with your mentor
Of course, mentoring isn’t all about career or education-related things. You should do fun things together as well! Mentoring is also about having a strong relationship built on trust and personal connection, much like friendship. Some things you can do for fun include:
- Play a game or watch a movie together online
- Meet up for a socially distanced coffee (if you’re in the same geographic area)
- Go for a walk together (taking the appropriate health and safety precautions)
- Talk about pets, hobbies, music, travel, etc.
- Make a playlist together
- Do virtual arts and crafts, such as origami
Resources
To learn more, here are some great places to start!
– Why should you become a mentee?
– Why Mentors Matter: A Summary of 30 Years of Research
– Mentoring in the Workplace – A Success Story
