 I came here in September and everything was new London is a big city so I was looking for someone to help me and I look at the my emails and I saw this mentoring program I was like yeah why not maybe someone can help me in finding a job or like in developing my skills. So for the CV at all because I had a CV already but it was kind of a mess up so I decided to ask her for help and then the cover letter and then some tips on how to reply to the questions of the interviews mainly. I made a confidence because at the beginning I was very scared about doing interviews about what this job finding so I think she's she really helped me in like okay don't worry about if anything if something goes wrong if something is not as you want like don't worry just keep going. So my mentor did the same course of mine so I'm doing events management so she helped me not just as my in my professional career but she gave me advices and suggestions also on how to do assignments how to succeed in my academic career. Just ask any questions that came that comes up to your mind there is no stupid questions or something so if you have died if you have any anything like just has to do your mentor and your mentor will be happy to help. Boost of confidence motivation happy, happiness, happiness. Because I wanted to help a I thought it was going to be an undergraduate but actually I'm with a master's student who I got him with but I wanted to help a student to progress and improve their employability because I'm a HCR advisor so I work with recruitment and sort of career progression day-to-day so I wanted to help. For me I'm new to psychology and I want to enter the counseling career so having someone to talk to and having so I was really helpful to help me enter the counseling. Really rewarding which is what I've really found nice to hear in the ceremony was the two-way process of actually it wasn't just about what you were getting it was about also what I got out of it so it was really rewarding and fulfilling to help. So for me instead of studying in psychology I also get this counseling course which is that I have gotten me to get in there and I'm sort of see it's really helped like during the process how I get through this counseling course process and how do we also like deal with some sort of CV or how to see how to be how to enter the counseling career and how to get some volunteering experience and all this sort of stuff so yeah I learned a lot of things from that. We discuss lots of different things in our session so yeah employability sort of interview skills how to get you into that experience that you want yeah loads of stuff and well-being as well so we tapped into sort of the social sort of side. Probably say rewarding, fulfilling and enjoyable. For me it's amazing and also I'm gonna say rewarding and interesting. So basically the first time I saw it was it was an employability office Instagram profile I really really liked it and also one of our professors really advised it so I was like why not and I tried it and it was the best experience from my studies. We had a call with my mentor every week and at first we were discussing my CV and my cover letter which helped me to realize that I'm not as bad as I was thinking about myself so he brought my confidence a lot so he basically helped me through his LinkedIn and he helped me on advice on my CV and whenever I had any questions on how to act on job interviews he was really really helpful and he gave me an examples on what question I can ask in the end of the interviews and how can I behave in the best ways so the employers will like me more. Maybe asking more questions because sometimes mentors don't know what exactly we are looking for so if we are looking for specifically finding a job just asking questions about like how can I find the best job how can I improve my CV etc etc. Full and self-improving. Decided to join the career mentoring program to connect with people from the industry because I'd like to create meaningful connections and expand my network as well and I found the program really valuable. I was at a stage in my career where I wanted to improve my own leadership skills I wanted to give something back I wanted to you know encourage up-and-coming talent but just to learn some more myself as well because it is a new skill for me as well you know. Thanks to the program I was able to to learn more about myself as a person and as a professional Laura has helped me a lot with my CV with my LinkedIn as well and we had interesting discussions and different topics. She also touched upon the the financial services industry which was really helpful as well because I was able to expand my horizons and learn about different industries and markets so it was really useful. I think I found it really refreshing actually to work with somebody who's coming into the industry who has so much passion for the industry and who's really enjoying getting to know it and coming into it and reminding me of all the things that I do like about my job and you've reminded me to network because that's actually something you're great at that I am not so we've learned from each other. Don't limit yourself with talking only about the CV for example or LinkedIn I try to learn more about the person who is your mentor and about the industry your mentor is working in as well and what are the future for example like opportunities or limitations. I think just go for it and just get stuck in and go with the flow because it can be quite an anxiety-inducing thing I suppose for us as well because you think am I ready do I know enough for by being in this industry long enough what can I share but so much comes out out of it that is valuable on both sides so go for it. What's a insightful, transpirable and fun? Let's say refreshing, educational and re-invigorating. This is my second year with the Kerimencing team so in my first year I was paired up with an industry professional from Southern the Banking and then she showed me the way about how can I progress my life in UK and career for an investment banker job so that really had an impact inside me so plus the support and guidance I received from the Kerimencing team back then was really good so it was really really immensely grateful for them and that was the first reason and secondly I'm doing my placement with the Improbability Service so I had a couple of questions in my mind that I want to ask to a professional about what you do actually within a career and within a company so the reason is like twofold the first one is before I got a job and second one when a job is going on as a placement so yeah so talking about my second mentoring experience we mostly shared about our experiences inside a job so like how do you perform well how do you impress your team how can you be more collaborative how can you improve your communication skills making sure that the team has you whenever they need you if I'm going to talk about my first mentoring experience that was mostly about how to get a placement or a graduate role so it was in two different ways that I utilized in mentoring experience but in overall it really helped me to connect with a lot of industry professionals and then yeah I had a chance to deliver a speech for the second career mentoring program this year so if I sum up my mentoring experience from the last year and the current year I can say that it totally depends on your requirements so if you're someone who is trying to know more about how you can excel in your current role or if you're facing some sort of challenges within your career in your career and if you're looking for some answers then try to connect with an industry professional either inside your own industry or somebody from outside in the industry in my perspective for me my mentor was outside my working industry so she gave me a different insight and different perspective that was quite unique to me which really helped in my placement with the employability surveys secondly please embrace your mentor-mend relationship if you're not able to find a proper job or a graduate role throughout the end of your mentoring program still you'll have the chance to know what skills does it take for you to learn in that role so it's always two-fold and the third thing that I would say is to be more active and engage in the mentoring conversations so you can always ask questions because a mentor might have something that you won't be expecting something that can be surprising so coping from my own speech I would say it's transformative, enlightening and empowering so that's what my mentoring journey so far now in the last two years.