Using the Career Profiling Worksheet, complete Part 1: The Basics by conducting preliminary research and jotting down your notes on a career of interest to you.

Identify 1-2 goals you aim to accomplish through this mentoring engagement.

• What big questions, issues, work environments, and job duties excite you?
• What inspired/s you to enter into this line of work?
• What surprised you about this line of work that you didn’t anticipate?
• How would you define success in this role?
• What attitudes do you need to have to be successful in this line of work?
• What are the skills and/or information in this line of work that you can only learn by doing?

REMINDER: During this meeting, you must discuss a time to schedule Meeting 2, please refer to the Timeline below for the date for Meeting 2 and work with each other to schedule time for Meeting 2 on the date indicated in the Timeline item: Meeting Two – Conversation Starters.

Revisit the Career Profiling Worksheet to complete Part 2: Digging Deeper.

• How do your needs, skills, and strengths fit with this career?
• Where do you see this role in 5 years? How do you think it will have changed? What skills do you think will be most valued or sought after?
• Was there ever a role you applied for and landed, but weren’t 100% qualified to do? How did you proceed?
•  What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started?

REMINDER: During this meeting, you must discuss a time to schedule Meeting 3, please refer to the Timeline below for the date for Meeting 3 and work with each other to schedule time for Meeting 3 on the date indicated in the Timeline item: Meeting Three – Conversation Starters.

Write a thank-you email letter to your mentor that details your thoughts on the following:

• What you value/appreciate about and learned from the mentoring experience.
• How what you have learned is useful for making decisions about your career path.
• Your next steps (e.g. concrete action steps you plan to take to learn more about the career, build needed skills, etc.).

• What feedback can you the Mentor offer on the Final Deliverable?
• What questions do you the Mentee have for the Mentor?
• What are the next steps in continuing to develop the knowledge, skills, strategies, etc. you’ve been working on?

Mentors and Mentees please use the following link to complete the Post-Engagement Survey