{"id":331,"date":"2014-09-12T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=331"},"modified":"2014-09-17T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T09:16:10","slug":"apply-to-become-a-mentor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/apply-to-become-a-mentor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply to become a mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Are you a current student?\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Would you like to help a new international student to settle in and gain volunteering experience to add to your CV?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;color: inherit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shusls.eu.qualtrics.com\/SE\/?SID=SV_eOKTCSP90Glxj5H\" target=\"_blank\">Apply\u00a0to become a volunteer mentor<\/a> for Culture Connect peer mentoring scheme*.\u00a0<\/strong>This is an opportunity to improve your communication skills\u00a0and learn about another student\u2019s\u00a0culture by sharing your experiences as a student at Sheffield Hallam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2014\/08\/29\/193\/campaign-visuals-171-postgraduate\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/193\/campaign-visuals-171-postgraduate\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2014\/08\/Campaign-Visuals-171-Postgraduate.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"5616,3744\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Nigel Barker Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Campaign Visuals-171-Postgraduate\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2014\/08\/Campaign-Visuals-171-Postgraduate-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-218 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2014\/08\/Campaign-Visuals-171-Postgraduate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Campaign Visuals-171-Postgraduate\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2014\/08\/Campaign-Visuals-171-Postgraduate-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2014\/08\/Campaign-Visuals-171-Postgraduate-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2014\/08\/Campaign-Visuals-171-Postgraduate-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>As a mentor (student doing the mentoring\/ helping), you will meet your mentee (student being mentored\/ helped) regularly at university, a local cafe or other venue of choice. You will help\u00a0your mentee talk things through, while demonstrating listening skills and challenging their assumptions where necessary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;text-align: justify\">Your mentee may wish to discuss<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333;text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit;color: inherit\">ways to meet British students, other international students and local people<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit;color: inherit\">British culture and differences from their home country<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit;color: inherit\">extracurricular activities and community events<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit;color: inherit\">small talk and making friends<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit;color: inherit\">other places to get support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;text-align: justify\">There are a wide range of social projects, clubs and support available to international students on campus and in Sheffield, which you can sign-post your mentee to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;text-align: justify\">There will be regular training opportunities and networking events to support you.\u00a0You will develop your coaching and mentoring skills. As a volunteer for the university, you are eligible to apply for the Hallam Award, which is highly regarded by employers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;text-align: justify\">Read some <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/2014\/08\/29\/193\/\">student case studies<\/a> about the scheme and <a href=\"https:\/\/shusls.qualtrics.com\/SE\/?SID=SV_eOKTCSP90Glxj5H\" target=\"_blank\">apply for the scheme.\u00a0<\/a>The deadline to apply\u00a0is\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;color: inherit\">Wednesday 8 October\u00a0at 5pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;text-align: justify\">*Please note: places are strictly limited. If you are not\u00a0selected there may be\u00a0other opportunities later in the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratingblock \" style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a current student?\u00a0Would you like to help a new international student to settle in and gain volunteering experience to add to your CV?\u00a0 Apply\u00a0to become a volunteer mentor for Culture Connect peer mentoring scheme*.\u00a0This is an opportunity to improve your communication skills\u00a0and learn about another student\u2019s\u00a0culture by sharing your experiences as a student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/apply-to-become-a-mentor-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apply to become a mentor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2469,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,78],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employability","category-social-activities","tag-monday-15-september-2014"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2014\/08\/3930-3_AW.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-5l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}