Mentoring
Discover Our Mentoring Programs
Personalized support by an inspiring mentor to propel a mentee towards their goals.
It’s the story of King Ulysses who goes to war and entrusts his son to his friend Mentor to guide and support him during his journey… Nowadays, job seekers are also a bit like heroes on a quest, aren’t they?
Mentoring is a voluntary relationship of support and exchange, where an experienced person invests their wisdom and experience to foster the development of another person. This relationship helps mentees acquire skills, achieve professional or academic goals, and overcome challenges related to their progress.
Learn more about our methodology and various projects below!
Employment Mentoring with Inspiring Companies
Mentor’IN Brussels is a free mentoring program designed to help jobseekers find employment. For 6 months, each job seeker is accompanied by a volunteer mentor from our network of Inspiring Companies, who will help them achieve their professional goals by sharing experiences, offering advice and helping them develop their skills and better understand the job market.
What makes Mentor’IN Brussels special? Collaborative in-company mentoring based on two pillars:
- Personalized support: individual sessions between mentee and mentor to build trust and work on specific challenges.
- A collaborative dynamic: collective mentoring sessions organized in immersion within Inspiring Companies to enable pairs to achieve their objectives through the sharing of experience, best practices and networking.
For the company, this practice offers numerous benefits, including a positive societal impact by contributing to the employment of Brussels residents, the development of the talents and skills of their employees, increased motivation and job satisfaction through a sense of social usefulness, as well as improved employee retention and attraction of new talent.
We benefit from a strong network of companies that, over 5 years, has allowed us to achieve more than 300 connections between young people and inspiring companies, through initiatives such as speed mentoring, relational mentoring, internships, and professional integration.
Mentor’IN Brussels is a project supported by Actiris and the European Social Fund.
The UAE-ULB Mentoring Project
Who better than ULB alumni to understand the difficulties and challenges of student life?
Since 2020, we have been collaborating with the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Union des Anciens de l’ULB on a Mentoring Project for students and recent graduates. The mentors, former students of the university, volunteer to help young people through various types of support:
- Moral support and self-confidence
- Career guidance and professional projection
- Methodology and work organization
- Job search strategies
- Networking, sharing contacts and opportunities
- Understanding and studying an academic subject
Since the start of the project, we have supported over 300 members of the university.
Pairs can be matched based on their common faculties as well as their mentoring needs and shared interests. In addition to ongoing support, we organize launch and closing events, community events, mentor peer reviews, office hours, and regularly share resources to support and ensure the smooth running of each mentoring relationship.
Our Methodology
At Backstage.Network, we implement mentoring programs for higher education and employment. Throughout the year, we organize:
- Consulting for setting up your mentoring program.
- Information sessions and training for mentors focused on soft skills and the job market.
- Community events based on collective intelligence activities as well as resource and experience sharing.
- Screening of each mentor and mentee to better understand their respective preferences and mentoring needs.
- Matching mentor-mentee pairs based on our expertise to achieve the best possible “match” and regular follow-up of the pairs.
- An evaluation at the end of the program or follow-up to measure results and officially close the pairs.
Our Mentoring Programs in Numbers:
200
The average number of mentoring pairs supported each year
100
The number of mentors we train each year
75%
The positive outcome rate of our employment mentoring projects
6 months
The duration of support for a mentoring pair
Contact Us to Set Up Your Mentoring Program
Do you want to set up a mentoring program in your higher education institution, your faculty, or your company? Let’s discuss it 👇
