IEEE CS SYP Micro Mentoring – IEEE Computer Society SYP

Supercharge Your Career With Micro Mentoring!

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Find resources, opportunities and initiatives for kickstarting your mentoring journey! Elevating the potential of the SYP Community! Enabling excellence through Mentoring!

In every engineer’s journey, three vital roles are crucial: mentors, coaches, and sponsors. Mentors provide invaluable guidance by speaking with you and sharing wisdom and experience. Coaches offer personalized support by speaking to you and offering advice and strategies for growth. Sponsors advocate for their success by speaking about you and endorsing their talents and capabilities. Among these roles, finding the right mentor is one of the most challenging yet rewarding tasks in a professional’s life.

The IEEE CS SYP Micro Mentoring helps you take the first step in the mentoring journey.

Seasoned mentor or a first-time mentor, you get the tools, admin help and a hassle-free platform to help young engineers grow!

Mentees can focus on actual mentoring and leave the hassles of searching for platforms to find mentors and setting up timelines and mentoring contracts.

Short, focused and beneficial

Micro in terms of time, yet focused and beneficial for your career advancement

Find the right mentors

It is hard and that is why we strive to make the experience simple

Get actionable feedback

Get the right actionable feedback to grow and excel in your career

What is Micro Mentoring?

The structure of Micro Mentoring combines the features of mentoring with the concept of micro or small. This means everything in Micro Mentoring is the same as regular mentoring where the mentors mentor the mentees. Still, micro defines short and focused mentoring, where each mentoring relation lasts for 3-4 Months, with at least 4 mentoring sessions and a well-defined feedback system.

Micro (Greek letter μ, mu) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of one millionth. Confirmed in 1960, the prefix comes from the Greek mikrós, meaning “small” (Wikipedia). And, we have Micro Mentoring! It is short, focused and packed with all the essence of mentoring. The μ in the logo stands for the elements of micro mentoring:

The micro or μ represents short and focused mentoring – the micro version of mentoring
How the mentors and mentees support each other, stay connected and complete the mentoring relationship – just like the two verticals in the μ connected by the central strand. There are no disconnected independent individuals in a mentoring relationship, the mentors and mentees work together, making a bidirectional symbiotic relationship possible
The logo’s simplicity represents the formal structure and commitments the mentors and mentees possess
The gradient shows positive progress and growth in the mentoring relationship

Mentoring is noble

Guiding the next generation is noble.

The IEEE CS SYP Micro Mentoring is for both seasoned mentors, ready to share their wisdom, and first-time mentors, eager to start their mentoring journey. We see this as an opportunity to give back to the community! We take care of the hassles and administration tasks, and the mentors focus on the micro mentoring!

The requirements for being a mentor in the programme are:

(a) You are a young, mid-career or senior professional or an academic (teacher/professor) with at least 8 months experience in your current role or (b) have a combined experience of at least 1 year after your graduation in your first degree
Not a student when you sign up, unless you are a post-graduate research student (PhD) and satisfy part (b) of condition 1
Have a passion to guide the next generation and support their career goals

A mentor in the program would:

Provide guidance and support, offer advice, share experiences, and help mentees navigate challenges
Assist mentees in setting realistic and achievable goals, and provide feedback on their progress
Help mentees advance their careers by sharing their knowledge, abilities, and industry insights
Introduce mentees to valuable contacts and help them expand their professional network
Actively listen to mentees’ concerns, questions, and ideas, offering constructive feedback and guidance

Sounds like you? Join us as a mentor today!

Being a mentee is a commitment

We believe that being a mentee is a commitment to learn, grow and excel and finding a good mentor is important for this!

The IEEE CS SYP Micro Mentoring helps you find a mentor for short focused micro mentoring sessions. We take care of the hassles and administration tasks, and the mentees focus on the mentoring!

We are happy to host both students and young professionals as mentees in the programme!

As a mentee in the program, you are expected to:

Participate in the mentoring relationship, communicate their objectives and aspirations, ask questions, and seek advice
Work with their mentor to establish clear and achievable goals
for their personal and professional development
Hold themselves responsible for their commitments
Be receptive to feedback and make action plans based on it to learn, grow and excel
Conduct themselves professionally in their interactions with their
mentor, respecting their time

The Stars of Micro Mentoring

Here are our star volunteers, mentors and mentees. These are the people who uphold the standards of the program and make this program exemplary and enable us to make this the flagship program of IEEE Computer Society Students and Young Professionals Activities. We recognise and commend their initiative, adherence to the utmost standards and exemplary volunteering.