We are calling for volunteers to meet with our current students to offer future careers advice in one-to-one mentoring sessions.
With help from a number of you, we have had two successful years of the Department of Economic History alumni-mentor programme to great success. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from both our alumni mentors and student participants who found the process enriching and invaluable. We know that many of you who took part are still in contact with your student mentees from last academic year, many of whom graduated in December.
We are very grateful to all those who volunteered their time to help continue this programme in 2023/24 and make it a success and we are delighted to announce that we will be running it again this academic year, 2024/25.
Based on feedback, this year we will be including Second and Final Year undergraduate students in the mentoring programme alongside our MSc students. From next academic year we will offer this programme to MSc and Second Year undergraduate students to allow the latter opportunity to practically apply your advice when they apply for graduate schemes at the beginning of their final year. We recognise that our Department’s alumni share a deep wealth of experience and knowledge across a variety of industries and sectors and know that careers guidance and mentorship from you is invaluable to students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
We are seeking volunteers from all industries to offer up to four 30-minute online or in-person one-to-one advice sessions in Februar 2025. We will match you with students who have expressed an interest in the industry/sector(s) you have indicated you are in a position to offer guidance on. We will be holding an introductory information session and Q&A in the coming weeks for those of you who volunteer.
If you are interested in signing up for the alumni-mentor programme, please click here to complete this short form.
We look forward to working with previous volunteers again and new faces!
If you have any further questions on this programme, please contact Oli Harrison at o.harrison1@lse.ac.uk