After mentoring: using your networking skills
We hope that you have found mentoring to be a great way to help you learn more about yourself and identify next steps in relation to your career interests. It鈥檚 important to remember that, knowingly or not, you have also developed a level of networking skills from having your mentoring partnership with your Thrive mentor.
What next?
You may be thinking what next, and how do you use these skills to help you going forward. Here鈥檚 what we would suggest:
- Create a LinkedIn account, or use one you already have, to continue growing your network.
- Add your mentor on LinkedIn if you haven鈥檛 already, and use this as a platform to find opportunities.
- Access LinkedIn Learning through your student credentials (this is free to UoR students). The section on 鈥榥etworking and LinkedIn鈥� has useful tools to help you use your networking skills going forward.
Mentoring in the future
Mentoring may be useful for you in the future too 鈥� perhaps when contemplating a job change, within a future workplace to find out more about other roles available, or even if you鈥檇 like to support someone in their career journey.
The Careers Team
Remember that you have access to the Careers Team on campus. We are based in the Carrington building and can support you with your next steps 鈥� from paid internships and placements to career consultations and more. You can read more about our services on the Careers webpages, and consider discussing options with your mentor to help narrow down what to do next.