Please complete mentor application form here.

Completing the form takes about 2 minutes and allows the GMI Operations Team to identify well-matched student-mentor pairs.

GMI has designed a program which makes it easy for anyone to be a great mentor. You don’t need to be an expert, just follow the GMI Mentor Guide and add your own personal experience. Mentors are often surprised at how much they learn from the GMI program.

Your commitment as a mentor:

• Watch our 20-minute mentor orientation video.
• Complete 12 one-hour mentoring sessions weekly or bi-weekly.
• Mentors typically report needing 15-45 minutes per week for session prep and follow-up.

GMI will provide instructions for how to engage with your student. Introduce yourself following notification of a match and agree on when to meet for your first session. GMI provides email templates to communicate with your student to reduce your time commitment.

GMI provides everything you need to guide your student. You don’t need to be an expert, just follow the Mentor Guide and add your own personal experience.

Mentorship resources include:

• The GMI Mentor Guide
• Training on how to be a great mentor
• Email templates for communicating with your student every week
• All materials the student uses during the mentorship

• Helping mentees find and prepare for a career job.
• Developing a career plan for every mentored graduate.
• Having at least 5 job interviews lined up before graduating for every student.
• Facilitating 200 professional business contacts for every student.
• Developing a global business network to support mentored students.
• Providing GMI business partners with qualified, pre-screened candidates.
• Making a positive impact in communities around the world through mentorship.

Your formal mentorship will end after 12 sessions. As a mentor, you can decide if you want to continue with informal ad hoc discussions with the student after the mentorship concludes. You are under no obligation or expectation to continue the relationship.

Students are provided with study materials for each session to help them learn and adopt GMI business tools. Over 50 guides and templates are available to students. This includes advanced LinkedIn training to help them build their business network and 10 templates for how to make LinkedIn business connections.

70% of the mentorship is focused on helping a student prepare to get their first career job. 30% is dedicated to helping them excel in their first job and understanding how to thrive in the business world.

Topics include:

• Establishing a professional business network using LinkedIn and creating a unique personal brand to attract job recruiters.
• Creating a career plan and setting measurable goals.
• Developing specific soft skills to excel in business.
• Effective communications when working in a global business environment.
• Creating a resume/CV that gets noticed using keywords.
• How to find the right job.
• Communication templates and guides for conducting a job search.
• Mastering the job interview process.
• How companies evaluate their employees and how to distinguish yourself on the job.

To apply and learn more about eligibility & requirements, click here. 

Additionally, GMI will provide you with the necessary resources before each mentorship session. Over 50 guides and templates are available to students.

Yes. Once you successfully complete your 12-session mentorship, you will receive a certificate. The certificate will show prospective employers and hiring managers that you have the essential skills to succeed in any workplace.  

For additional questions, please contact info@globalmentorship.org. You will get a response within 24 hours.

• Provides you with cost-effective and early access to high-quality job candidates before they even graduate, shortening the time to full productivity for new hires.
• Promotes diversity in the organization.
• Increases employee purpose and skills development for mentors.
• Contributes to social responsibility commitments (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 4, 5, 8, and 10).

GMI partners with companies who provide quality mentors, sponsor students, and provide employment opportunities for program graduates. For more information about amplifying our social impact through partnership, please contact GMI’s Director of Strategic Partnerships, Ravenna Hennane: ravenna.hennane@globalmentorship.org.

GMI’s Mentor Status Trackers are tools used to share employee engagement and impact data with members of GMI’s partner network. Each Excel file is divided into sheets, each corresponding to a specific date noted in the tab name.

Each sheet contains a table summarizing the status of all mentors affiliated with that employer at that point in time.

Here are a few tips to help partners interpret their tracker correctly:

• Find the number of unique mentors:
  Filter the “# of Students” column to show only the value “1.” This helps identify the number of distinct mentors listed in each tracker.

• Follow up with mentors to complete orientation:
  Mentors with the value “FALSE” in the “Mentor Orientation Completed” column have not yet completed GMI’s required orientation video.
  While GMI sends automatic reminders, follow-ups directly from the employer are often more effective.

• Mentor confidentiality:
  The “Consent Employer” column indicates whether a mentor has agreed to share their information with their employer.
  If the value is “FALSE,” the mentor’s information will remain confidential and won’t be visible to the employer.