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For Mentees

a. What is your biggest takeaway or how have you benefitted from the program?

b. What are some ways to get your peers to be exposed to mentoring?

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For Mentors:

a. What is the biggest challenge you faced during the 3 months?

b. How can you as a the Mentor grow and get "better" in the next Round(s)?

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1. Don't be afraid to try new things, don't procrastinate. Networking. Take risks. Learning the real life working experience of our mentor's and receiving career advice that has been tried and tested.

2. Share experiences of the program, post on LinkedIn about our experiences.

3. Look for a job and try to land it. More networking, maintaining existing connections. 😊😊

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1) festive season (Cny) no time to arrange meetings

2) picking the ideal meeting place that is quiet enough for discussion

3) time management between mentee and mentor

4) took too long to set agenda of the mentorship

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1) set agenda earlier and create a framework to help set agenda.

2) sharing sessions between mentors to learn from each other.

3) learn from mentees as well.

4) provide material for mentees (homework!)

5) to think of activities before hand.

6) to balance talking and listening between the students.

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A) biggest challenge - inability to find common timeslot; communication 

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A) biggest challenge - inability to find common timeslot; communication 

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B) manage expectations; explore structured coaching techniques; use the communication channel that works for mentees

C) more workshops for mentors; provide meeting rooms for mentors to host mentoring with mentees

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1. Pay mind to development of soft skills as they are often neglected. Most people do not think their soft skills are lacking because it is harder to quantify

2. Sharing your experience with the programme online. Joining the program as a mentor with your peers once you have graduated

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Can't please everyone in life

Also learnt about the insights in sales industry

Learnt about the various career paths in finance

Do things w heart

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1) give a list to topics to discuss in case nothing to talk about

2) tips for mentors and students to break the ice

3) important to encourage kick off session because face to face introduction helps to break the ice.

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1. Mentees don’t follow up regularly or do not fill journals or go MIA (Ghosting)

2. Where possible, frame questions in advance

b.

1. Get students to update journals regularly

2. How to be more present (build a personal relationship with the student)

3. Reverse mentoring

C.

1. 10hr meeting timeline can be flexible

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Guo Xiang:

1. Be a friend

Penon:

1. Insights into the Financial industry in general

2. Job shadowing will make it more interesting.

Elysia:

1. Insights in hiring process, interviewing, perspective in making right decisions, compensation and benefits

2. We cannot force people to sign for this, if they want they will come.

Clarence:

1. Organisational structure and role of quality control and improvement people.

Gained different perspectives in reality of industry vs perceived of industry

Atu:

4. Create a personal branding when young, create a proper LinkedIn profile, lead generation, communication, rapport building, entrepreneurship (sales process).

Gained insights of the different fields of sales, like for tech sales, what are the marketing techniques. B2B, B2C.

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1. Biggest challenges

1. Time period - festive season / CNY / exchange / holiday

2. Meeting up - conflicting schedules

2. How to grow as a mentor

1. More accountable / tangible goal

2. Face 2 face

3. How CAO can support

1. Budget for meals

2. Budget for activities

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1. We learnt how to assess various priorities when looking for a job, how to structure great CVs and how to present ourselves in front of employers.

2. We definitely would!

3. Some us applied for jobs after seeking advice from our mentors. Some us learnt about ourselves in the process.