Winning Women Mentorship Program
Title: Winning Women Mentorship Program
Description:
Winning Women is a non-profit organization that brings together the St. Louis region’s most successful women to contribute their time, talents and financial resources to make the region a better place to live and work. Winning Women contributes to the region’s economic development and reinforces the region’s position as a desirable community in which women can build successful careers, businesses and family lives.
In a collaboration effort with Saint Louis University, beginning in the 2010-2011 academic year, Winning Women will provide mentoring, learning and networking opportunities between its members and qualified undergraduate students, called the Winning Women Mentoring Program. Saint Louis University offers an ideal partnership opportunity with Winning Women by providing a multidisciplinary and holistic education recognized for its preparation of the whole person.
Purpose
The Winning Women Mentoring Program will provide advice, assistance and guidance to current Saint Louis University undergraduate students. More broadly, the program will help students with their professional development and with their transition from a student to a professional role. We are asking both mentors and protégés to commit to the relationship for the academic year and commit to interacting at least once or twice a month for a minimum of 1 hour. How you choose to interact during this time (e.g., face-to-face, phone, email) is between you and your mentor, although we strongly encourage a face-to-face meeting and, to that end, we will have a (mandatory) orientation session/breakfast for mentors and students on Thursday, October 7th from 8:30a.m.-10a.m. in Boileau Hall on campus.
Please note that the purpose of the program is to help students develop knowledge and skills so that they are more attractive job applicants. Thus, students are advised against using the program in order to receive a job offer and should not expect a job offer. Mentors may elect to help students find job opportunities by providing feedback about their résumé, suggestions for conducting the internship or job search, and interview skills coaching, although the relationship can have many other goals beyond these guidelines.
*As an extension of the Winning Women Mentoring Program, Winning Women wishes to establish a named endowed scholarship fund to benefit full-time undergraduate students who participate in the program.
The mentorship program is open to all SLU undergraduates. It is a SLU-only program and a great opportunity to connect with St. Louis community leaders. In addition, Winning Women is offering a scholarship to a student participant of the mentorship program.
Students must apply online through CareerLink, careers.slu.edu. Deadline for applications is September 14, 2010. Students may contact me with any questions.
Thank you,
Claire
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Claire S. Chase
