Connect to Success Mentorship Program

Mentee intake is now closed. Please check back in the spring of 2010.

The Connect to Success Mentorship Program is designed for professional or skilled women aged 19 or over who are unemployed or underemployed.

Move your career in the right direction with the help of a mentor. This free mentorship program is for women who are entering or re-entering professional or skilled careers.

Connect to Success provides women with an opportunity to:

• Connect with a female mentor for six months and build a one-to-one career-based relationship
• Participate in workshops focusing on personal and career development
• Get information about networking and career resources.

Mentors are professional women who are successful in their careers and able to share their experience with a mentee. Mentors come from a wide range of careers including business, health care, science, arts, technology and trades. Mentors are matched with mentees based on common career interest.

Become a Mentee
Mentees come from a variety of backgrounds. They are women with industry standard education who are starting their careers, returning to the workforce or newly entering the Canadian job market. Mentees are women who are:

• over the age of 19
• unemployed and not eligible for Employment Insurance (EI) or
  
• underemployed and seeking improved employment (certain restrictions apply; please call 604 895 5858 for more information)
  
• job ready with industry standard education and training
• seeking employment in professional or skilled careers
• new to the local job market in their chosen career
• legally entitled to work in Canada
• residents of the Lower Mainland
• in or about to begin the job search process
• able to commit to a six month mentorship relationship.

Check out our networking guide for download (5.5 MB).

For more information please contact

Celina Strachan
Program Coordinator
535 Hornby Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 2E8
tel 604 895 5858
email connect@ywcavan.org

Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:30 - 4:30pm

Funding provided through the Canada-British Columbia Labour Market Agreement