Connect to Success

Mentors Needed!

Are you a professional woman established in your career? Do you have a few hours a month to share with a mentee? You can share your skills, passion and professional expertise through Connect to Success.

Connect to Success is looking for women from a wide variety fields including entrepreneurship, business, health care, science, arts & design, and trades to become mentors. As a mentor, you can help a woman who is entering or re-entering the workforce, in a professional or skilled field, or who is underemployed and looking for more meaningful employment.

You will be matched based on your personal and career interests. Your mentee will be a woman with industry standard education who is starting her career, returning to the workforce, or entering the Canadian job market.

Mentor Requirements

• Commit to building a one-to-one career-focused relationship with a mentee for six months (average time commitment 3–6 hours per month)
  
• Provide advice and share experience on career development and life-work balance. Become a role model, inspiration and resource
• Share career information to help your mentee gain a better understanding of employer expectations, job requirements, the hidden job market
• Provide feedback for mentees to improve quality of resumes, cover letters and interview skills
• Support mentees to build their professional network, by connecting them with potential employers and provide additional networking opportunities.

All mentors are required to submit a resume, two references and attend a 1.5-hour orientation session.

Check out of networking guide for download (5.5 MB)

For more information and to apply to become a mentor, please contact:

Darcie Gabruck
Program Manager
535 Hornby Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 2E8
tel 604 895 5857
email dgabruck@ywcavan.org

Office Hours: Mondays to Thursdays 8:30am–4:30pm

Funding provided through the Canada-British Columbia Labour Market Agreement