Reasons for engaging with mentorset

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

For further information about MentorSET partnership, please get in touch with:

Benjamin Palmer
MentorSET Manager

Women’s Engineering Society
Michael Faraday House, Six Hills Way
Stevenage, Herts. SG1 2AY
Tel. 01438 767446
mentorset@wes.org.uk
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