Mentoring Program

The Hart Career Center Mentoring Program connects students with you, our alumni and friends.  As a mentor, you become more connected to Illinois Wesleyan, share information about your profession, help guide graduates to career success, and find interns or quality candidates for your organization.  It is easy, rewarding, and works around your schedule.

How much time does this require?

You decide how involved you want to be.  Mentoring can be as simple as answering a single e-mail from a student, or as involved as taking several phone calls about your career or organization, or having a student spend a day on the job with you.  You choose the pattern of contact and the amount of interaction between you and the student.

What do mentors do?

In addition to providing career advice about your field to students, you can offer:

• Employment Information
• Employment Assistance
• Informational Interviews
• Internships
• Job Shadowing
• Group Presentations
• Mock Interviews

How Do I Sign Up?

Our Mentoring Program is managed through the Career Center's online eRecruiting system.  To begin, you will need to fill out an IWU Mentoring Request. After submitting the request, you will be sent a username and password for eRecruiting via e-mail, as well as additional information about the mentor role. For more information, please call Warren Kistner at (309) 556-3071.

Please understand that there may be times when there are no students to match your profession, position, or geographic location, so you may not be contacted immediately.

“This was a great way for me to give back to Illinois Wesleyan, which has been so good to my daughter (Abby ’07).  [My mentee] was so motivated.  Her enthusiasm and spirit were great.  I’d like to have 10 more just like her.”

Carol Csanda, Knowledge Management Director, State Farm, Bloomington, who helped her mentee refine her resume, shadow her at work for a day, and secure a job interview.