Julie Morgan (Biology and Psychology 1980), who works with KPMG, giving advice to Daniel Cross (Economics and Accountancy, 2010). Read about Julie’s experience as a mentor.
Career Mentor Scheme
Information for mentors
The University of Exeter Career Mentor Scheme brings bright, enthusiastic students together with successful professionals in mutually beneficial mentoring partnerships.
Mentors are professionals who support students by providing invaluable insight, advice and guidance regarding their chosen career. A number of our Mentors are also alumni of the University and all are based within the UK.
Mentoring partnerships begin in January and last for up to 12 months. We accept applications from potential Mentors throughout the year.
Benefits of mentoring:
- Access to bright and enthusiastic 2nd year undergraduate students (the next generation of employees) who can provide a fresh view of your business
- Opportunity to create links with the University and potentially other Mentors
- Volunteering experience for your CV
- Leadership and mentoring experience
- Engagement with a world class University
Read further information
Next steps
If you are interested in finding out more about the scheme, please contact Jenny French by sending an email to careermentorscheme@exeter.ac.uk or calling 01392 722034.
From my point of view, being a mentor has been a very positive experience, I am very glad to be able to help someone like Daniel at the start of his career and to share my experiences with him. Read more
Julie Morgan, KPMG
Biology and Psychology, 1980
It’s an overused phrase, but mentoring is a true win-win.
I got so much from it; fulfilment, satisfaction, a sense of putting something back into society, and no less importantly a real insight into what it’s like to be young in today’s world.
My mentees have both gone on to jobs in the media, with the help of my guidance through the precarious business of applications and interviews and it’s been so rewarding to watch them developing. We met, on average, once a month for an hour or so, sometimes to help with ideas for work experience, or to check applications, sometimes just for the reassurance of a chat.
It’s my experience that Exeter students are very bright, motivated, and a pleasure to work with. I would thoroughly recommend mentoring, not just for the good it can do the student, but the mentor too.
Simon Hall,
BBC News Correspondent
I am finding the mentoring experience very positive, and certainly (the student) is a pleasure to mentor – what’s great is she doesn’t hold back and I think we have developed a strong degree of trust.
Karen Myers,
Director of Corporate Communications, IPC Media
