We
are proud to share that the 2017 CEMS Mentoring Programme has been
kicked off. The mentoring programme has been relaunched after a few
years break as a joint initiative of the CEMS Alumni Association
Czech Republic and CEMS Club Prague. Big thank you goes to Ulyana
Makarava, who stood at the beginning of this idea.
We
are happy that 25 alumni signed up as mentors and almost the same
number of students want to become mentees. We are glad to see that
also exchange students as well as CEMS alumni living abroad signed up
for the programme.
Students
are primarily interested in the start-up area and entrepreneurship,
modern technologies, international career and living abroad. This is
combined with the traditional fields such as consulting, marketing or
finance. It is great to see that new as well as senior alumni are part
of the programme.
In
order to get to know each other, both students and alumni were
invited for the CEMS Mentoring kick-off event that took place on 23rd
February 2017 in the restaurant Nola in Prague 4. The main purpose of
this event was to get to know each other and the whole evening was
prepared in an informal atmosphere.
Michaela
Novakov shared her experience with mentoring and thereby introduced
the concept to students. All participating alumni said a few words
about themselves.
Students
and alumni then got a chance to mingle and enjoy the networking part.
The evening was further followed by a dinner. During the evening,
students could have also read through the profiles of alumni, who
were not able to come to this event. You can check photos from this event
HERE.
After
receiving students’ preferences, the CEMS Alumni Association Czech
Republic together with CEMS Club Prague did the matching process.
Once the assigned students were confirmed by alumni, the mentoring
itself could have started.
Mentees
and mentors have the complete freedom to agree on time, frequency and
topic of their discussion. In order to share best practise, we will
do a half term experience sharing. The final evaluation is going to
be done on 8th June 2017 during the CEMS Soiree at the
University of Economics in Prague.
The
mentoring programme is currently prepared as a semester initiative,
though we hope that mentors and mentees wil stay in touch also in the
future. As also Michaela Novakov mentioned, the important element of
successful mentoring is on one side good match between mentor and
mentee and on the other side long-term collaboration.
Thank
you all for your support to make the 2017 CEMS Mentoring Programme
happen.
Kind
regards,
Pavlina
CEMS Alumni Board Czech Republic
