More detailed information on the mentoring program

Mentees

In principle, psychology students from the 5th semester (BSc) can take part in expert mentoring. After consultation with the project management, participation is also possible for students in their 3rd semester.

In mentoring, you as a mentee will receive individual advice from a personal mentor. You benefit from:

  • Advice and tips from experienced practitioners
  • Individual career and professional planning
  • Early and targeted orientation during your studies
  • Joint development of study-related goals
  • Contact and networking opportunities
  • Opinion on career prospects and (unknown) opportunities
  • Reflection on professional requirements
  • Reflection on own strengths and development opportunities
  • Mediation of professional connections
  • Participation in the mentor's everyday professional life (if possible)
  • Certificate of your participation in the project

  • Personal responsibility and commitment
  • Interest in systematic and long-term consulting
  • Clear and concrete goals/concerns
  • Willingness to participate in the three accompanying events & the evaluation
  • Willingness to travel to the mentor (usually regionally, further travel by arrangement)

Mentors

As mentors, we are looking for qualified practitioners who have professional experience in the various areas and professional fields of psychology, e.g.

  • Psychotherapy (child, adolescent and adult psychotherapy)
  • Psychiatry and medical psychology
  • Marriage, family, educational and life counseling
  • Neuropsychology
  • Addiction and prevention
  • Management and personnel counseling
  • coaching
  • mediation
  • Personnel and Organizational Development
  • Advertising psychology
  • Legal psychology
  • Research and science

In expert mentoring, you as mentors advise your mentees on a voluntary basis in one-to-one meetings so that you can adapt to their specific and individual situations. In expert mentoring, you can

  • pass on your own ideas and experiences
  • Benefit from the reciprocal nature of the relationship and the exchange of experiences New impulses, suggestions and feedback from the younger generation to enrich your own work
  • Build up new networks
  • build a bridge to the former university as alumni of Osnabrück University
  • Receive a certificate for volunteering in the project

"The project gives you practical insights in the area that interests you and the opportunity to work with someone who already has a lot of a lot of experience in this area ask everything you want to know."

"Great thing!"

"My mentor was great and I want to do exactly her work later on - I couldn't have said that a year ago."

Networking and exchange

In addition to the exchange in 1:1 contact with the mentors, the mentees have the opportunity to get to know each other and talk about their experiences in accompanying networking meetings. The mentees also gain insights into the professional fields of the other mentors, can learn from each other and thus find answers to any unanswered questions.

For mentors, mentoring offers the opportunity to make new contacts with young psychologists. There is also the opportunity to use formats such as the  practice series and the  practice workshop to bring your own professional career closer to a larger student body and thus make it better known.

Ablaufdiagramm des Mentorings

General conditions and requirements

In principle, mentoring is designed to last one year. Ideally, however, mentees can also be supported and advised until they graduate. At least two meetings between mentor and mentee are planned per semester. In principle, the mentees are in the position of travelers and visit their mentors for the joint meetings in their office or at another location of their choice - although purely digital meetings are also possible.

The meetings are intensive and confidential one-on-one discussions during which the mentee's current topics and concerns are addressed.

What additional support the mentor can and would like to provide (telephone or email contact) is agreed on an individual basis.

Requirements on both sides:

  • At least two meetings per semester take place between mentee and mentor
  • The meetings are prepared by the mentees
  • The relationship between mentor and mentee is based on mutual trust and voluntariness
  • All activities are provided without financial compensation
  • Mentees may be willing to travel
  • Mandatory participation in the project evaluation (mentees)
  • Mentoring is understood as a long-term advisory process and not as a short-term internship exchange or job placement