As a
mentee, you are responsible for taking charge of your own learning
journey.
Your responsibilities include:
Take initiative: You contact your mentor,
schedule meetings, and choose the topics for your conversations, allowing
your mentor to fully focus on your concerns.
Be well prepared: You come prepared to your
meetings and continue working independently on your career goals between
sessions.
Maintain regular contact: Stay in touch with your
mentor. If you don’t hear back from then within two weeks, please notify
the alma Mentoring Team.
Update the mentoring team: If you wish to end the
mentoring early or extend the mentoring, please talk to your mentor and inform
us at alma@univie.ac.at.
Important Mentoring principles:
Your mentoring, your decisions: Mentors support you in your
decision-making process, but you always make your own decisions. You remain responsible for your progress.
Consistency pays off: Mentoring is most effective
through long-term exchange, as this gives space for trust-building, deeper
understanding, and development of your ideas. Stay committed!
Mentoring is a professional
relationship – not therapy: Your mentor supports you in your career, but mentoring is not
meant for psychological or therapeutic counseling.
No guaranteed career success: Your mentor actively supports
your journey – but ultimately, your success depends on you.
Mentoring is not expert
consulting:
Mentoring is not about professional consulting or subject-specific advice.
Instead, your mentor offers personal experiences that can serve as
guidance.
Participation requirements:
To
participate in the alma Mentoring Program, you must be either be enrolled at
the University of Vienna, or have graduated from the University of Vienna
within the past two years.
As a mentee, you are also responsible for the organizational and
content-related preparation of your mentoring sessions.