Why Mentoring is Crucial For Students
While some students are only beginning their post secondary journey and other students move from school into the workplace, mentorship can be a great tool to support these often jarring and key transitional periods in their life.
A study done in the University of California evaluated whether peer mentoring might increase students’ feelings of engagement, which can contribute to the university’s overall student retention. Results indicated mentored students felt significantly more integrated and connected to their university at the end of their first semester in comparison to non-mentored students. Mentored students expressed that they felt more integrated and supported at college, which might reinforce their persistence toward graduating.
A study found that 84% of students change their career paths before they turn 25. Additionally, a LinkedIn study found that millennials will change jobs an average of four times in their first decade out of post-secondary education.
For Post Secondary Institutions:
Mentorship programs can help foster a collaborative and communal student life on campus. Programs such as peer mentorship can support the retention of student enrollment. It can facilitate easier transitions and offer deeper support for your diverse campus population such as newly enrolled students, transfer students, international students, and more. Having a mentor can provide a student with emotional support, increasing feelings of connectedness on campus, and promote integration within the campus life.
For Students:
Having a mentor is an effective way for students to gain clarity on their career goals and create actionable plans to achieve those goals both during and following their academic career. It is also a tool to increase self-awareness, illuminating strengths and areas for development, as well as increasing self-confidence, which supports professional and personal growth. A mentor offers unique, enlightening insights and learnings to on-campus life and to post-academic career.
Why EnPoint?
High impact mentorship programs made easy
Mentorship programs are made easy with our intuitive and customizable software. Access our expertise and support with a dedicated client success manager during your program creation as well as post launch. EnPoint also offers a mentorship design and training service where we provide end to end program creation.
Enhanced student and alumni engagement
Keep your students engaged and your alumni connected to their alma mater with your mentorship program. Our platform makes these relationships easier with a video chat feature and all key information on their mentorship via a dedicated dashboard.
Save time & Improve efficiency with automation
Share key resources through a dedicated hub, track meetings, offer training and stay organized all in our single software.
Meet program objectives, measure success and scale
With trackable results down to the individual level, you are able to measure and optimize your program for success. Our dedicated client success team members can also offer you support to maximize the platform. Our software also allows you to send post-program surveys to receive valuable feedback from your participants.
Using EnPoint For Students & Alumni
Career Mentoring
For post secondary institutions - student success during and following their academic career is imperative. Career mentoring can help validate their chosen field while simultaneously offering your students valuable work experience, industry insight, gain a competitive edge in their job search, networking access and integrated learning opportunities by pairing them with a mentor within their prospective career field.
Alumni Mentoring
For post secondary institutions - student success during and following their academic career is imperative. Career mentoring can help validate their chosen field while simultaneously offering your students valuable work experience, industry insight, gain a competitive edge in their job search, networking access and integrated learning opportunities by pairing them with a mentor within their prospective career field.
Peer Mentoring
Ease your student’s transition into your school through strategic peer-to-peer mentoring. Match your new students with student mentors to provide guidance, offer support and increase their connection and engagement to life on campus.
How It Works
Creating a mentorship program for your unique goals is made easier with EnPoint Mentorship Software
Set up your program
Set up and tailor your program to your organization's needs in our customizable platform with ease. Your site set-up can be completed in as little as an hour.
Find Matches
After creating your custom questionnaire, let our technology find the perfect matches for your Mentors and Mentees.
Accelerate Your Program
Maintenance is made easy with automated communication. Hold your Mentors and Mentees accountable through prompts and reminders.
Measure Success
Track the progress of your mentor/mentee connections and optimize your program.
Dedicated Support
Throughout this process, you are not alone! Our client success team can ensure that you are leveraging the platform the best you can while helping you optimize your program.
Mentorship programs don't have to be difficult.
EnPoint also offers end to end Mentorship Design Services!
EnPoint also offers a "one stop shop" option for organizations who would like to leverage our expertise for end to end mentorship program strategy and building and execution. It’s like “pressing the easy button” with our Mentorship Design Services.
Client Spotlight
EnPoint proudly partners with organizations who are committed to transforming student lives and their careers. Read more below about Post Secondary Institutions who have successfully launched their impact-driven mentorship programs.
Alumni Mentoring Spotlight: Dalhousie Schulich School of Law
The Dalhousie Schulich School of Law, a professional school that prepares its students for the workplace with a yearlong articling requirement, has integrated additional mentoring for their third and fourth year students. The Director, Career Services and Employer Relations shares, “this has allowed us to engage our alumni community in a meaningful, easy way while also supporting our students in advancing in their academic and professional careers.” Not only do their alumnae have an opportunity to give back to the institution, but the students are better prepared to find meaningful work in a discipline of their choice.
Career Mentoring Spotlight: The Atlantic Canada Study and Stay™ program
The Atlantic Canada Study and Stay™ program was a Pan-Atlantic Canada project administered by EduNova that supports international students in starting careers in their province of choice in Atlantic Canada. The program connects students directly to mentors as a way to help address employment barriers associated with starting careers in a new country, and provide 'applied' knowledge and experiential learning opportunities. Additionally, the program allows provinces to retain international graduates resulting in a win/win/win for students, employers, and Atlantic Canada. In 2018 alone, the program facilitated 200 international students gaining the essential skills, resources, and connections needed to transition from 'student' to 'professional' in a new country.
Other Resources
Read more on the benefits of mentorship for students!
Why Every Student Should Have a Mentor
84% of students change their career paths before they turn 25, and a LinkedIn study found that millennials will change jobs an average of four times in their first decade out of post-secondary education. Read the three ways mentorship is a strategic and helpful tool that should be available to every student while they make the transition from school to workplace.