Inside Edge Mentoring

This scheme aims to improve the career readiness of our students using industry mentors. Simple. We will do this through the scheme by:

• Helping you to identify and understand your current level of career readiness
• Exploring and capturing a vision for your future professional self
• Engaging you with a range of professionals to help you learn from them and their experiences
• Encouraging you to act on what you have seen and heard from the mentors to affect positive change in your life

This scheme has been designed specifically to provide a fantastic experience for students and graduates who want to engage in mentoring. As such, the entire process will comprise the following:

• A stage-by-stage approach, which develops your understanding of mentoring to prepare you to engage in it effectively
• A process that from the very start and at every stage builds on your career readiness using various activities and approaches
• Support every step of the way in the process with the scheme leader to tackle any questions or concerns that you have
• A mix of taught sessions, reflective exercises, self-assessments, mentoring activity, and practical action setting
• A clear pathway that allows you to go as far as you want to go in the process and as deep as you want to go into mentoring
• A fully supportive culture that values and respects your studies, your health and life commitments and is tailored to suit

There are any number of benefits to engaging in Inside Edge Mentoring. These can include elements such as:

• An opportunity to build and grow a mentoring relationship where you can transform yourself by developing awareness, insight and professionalism.
• An opportunity to delve deeper into a person’s career gaining detailed in-depth information that can be acted on to help navigate one’s own path in industry.
• A safe, non-judgement space to spend time with professionals who genuinely care about your development and listen to you, your concerns, questions and aspirations.
• Meeting with and learning from multiple schemes mentors based on your requirements

The scheme offers a wealth of mentoring activity including (but not limited to):

• Traditional one-to-one mentoring relationships
• Large group mentoring sessions with multiple mentors
• Single mentor small group mentoring sessions
• Multiple mentor allocations to individual students
• Industry specific and non-linear career mentoring sessions
• Virtual and face to face mentoring opportunities
• Individual support for approaching mentors outside the scheme

We asked our mentees to evaluate their experiences on the scheme and what they would say to others thinking of getting involved. Here’s just a few from so many great reflections:

I fully recommend getting in this scheme, it has been incredibly helpful. This is an amazing service provided by Uni, in the head of an incredible talented and inspiring leader as Andy. Bear in mind that this is a program in which your commitment and willingness to make it work according to the steps to follow, are key to get the most of it. You will not regret. - Adrianna

Inside Edge Mentoring is a great scheme that will allow you to meet professionals and gain valuable information from your mentors’ experiences. Your mentor will be able to provide you with a lot of useful advice and tips they have learnt from their career journey. I would recommend this scheme to anyone passionate about learning from other’s experiences and keen to applying that to their own future. - Kiran

If you feel like you have this internal fire and determination to move forward but you don't know how to release it, get a mentor! Hearing someone else's journey and being in that fortunate position to ask them HOW is invaluable! In the professional world, people pay for mentors- DMU are offering this for FREE! Take it up! Go for it- there is literally everything to gain! - Louise

I would strongly recommend the scheme as it bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and realistic implementation and helps develop a more rounded knowledge and skill set that is vital for post degree success. - Uzair

The mentoring is complex experience because we have opportunity to not only meet people who already achieved some success, get to know their history and their moments of ups and downs. However, we have also the opportunity to get to know better ourselves, find new ways for our career and develop ourselves. It is amazing and unforgettable journey, which definitely is worthy to experience. - Paulina