Reasons for engaging with mentorset
Your corporate diversity targets are likely to focus on key areas, and we have indicated how MentorSET can help towards these targets:
Recruitment of more women into engineering:
Recruitment of more women into engineering:
- A mentoring scheme is a recruitment attraction for potential employees
- MentorSET training will enable women to practice and excel at the recruitment assessment criteria that can be unfamiliar to them, especially after a period away from employment
- Access to mentoring will increase their application and interview confidence and performance, and make them more successful
- Your staff who mentor students will be encouraging more younger women to consider your company as a great place to work, and hopefully encourage them to pursue an engineering qualification
- Using your employees as mentors puts you in touch with prospective future talent
Support of Women Engineers
- Women will feel supported through access to mentoring which will allow them to share and work through issues and problems
- Mentoring will identify training needs in the employee which can then be met
- Career progression planning will give a sense of purpose and structure to employees
- Mentors will network with one another and gain vital business opportunities and career benefits
- Problems are able to be identified and solved before they lead to resignations
Retention of Women Engineers
- Women who continue to be mentored through their maternity break stand more chance of returning afterwards
- Women who are supported, trained, paid fairly and promoted fairly will be happier and more productive, and consequently more likely to stay with a company
Employ More Senior Women
- Mentoring capability to senior management and board positions will increase the talent pool of women suitable for these positions
- Cross sector nature of MentorSET will enable mentees to be mentored by senior women from other companies
- Women mentors develop important leadership and coaching skills
Other Business Benefits
- Reverse mentoring will allow senior staff (often male) to see the company through the eyes of a minority group, and this will lead to an improved working environment, better mutual understanding and a more embracing company culture
- Senior women will be seen as role models to other women, and their visibility across the engineering sectors will increase.
- Cross company relationships can lead to business opportunities
- Our links to academic institution will allow mentors to learn and disseminate this academic best practice and latest thinking to other members of the management team
partnership benefits
- Benefits of Mentoring
- Branding opportunity as a MentorSET partner
- Membership of the scheme for your engineering staff as mentors and mentees
- Access to online training materials and support (webinars and discussion papers)
- Access to other training providers (at additional cost depending on training content required)
- Membership of the Women's Engineering Society and access to the wider benefits that this includes
- Access to mentoring community where best practice can be discussed and shared
- Opportunity to provide role models and disseminate best practice
- National mentoring events and access to current academic research
- Reporting and feedback
Cath Heslop
MentorSET
Women’s Engineering Society
Michael Faraday House, Six Hills Way
Stevenage, Herts. SG1 2AY
mentorset@wes.org.uk
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