Mentoring
Why join the Future Connect Mentoring Network?
If you are looking for career guidance to help, take you to the next stage of your career, our Mentoring Network is a great place to start.
Mentors from our network support you in developing your future career in the industry, shaping your experience together.
All mentors are experienced finance professionals, who are here to assist you in developing your skills, advance your goals and learn from others’ experiences to reach your full potential. Hear more about the scheme in our video.
Why is mentoring important?
As a mentor, why join?
We know through our regular conversations with industry that we have a high level of talent and expertise in Jersey. Through joining the Future Connect Mentoring Network, you will be sharing this knowledge and experience with Jersey’s next generation. You will also:
- Educate local talent and share your leadership and technical skills with them
- Guide the next generation to transition into more senior roles
- Meet potential employees of the future
- Build new relationships and learn new perspectives
- Build exposure for your company’s brand and profile.
The Mentoring Network is open throughout the year, and you can enquire to join at any time. If you have any questions, please contact Karolina Pilcher.
FAQ's
What is mentoring?
Mentoring is a formal relationship between two people, where one generally has more experience in the workforce and both parties are willing to share their experiences. The main purpose of mentoring is to provide support and to encourage people to maximize their potential, develop skills, improve performance, and become the person they want to be.
What is the Future Connect Mentoring Network?
The Future Connect Mentoring Network is set up to match Future Connect Members (mentees) with a mentor from another member firm within the financial and related professional services industry. We facilitate the initial connection via email and then it is up to mentees and mentors to decide on the key aims, goals, and mutual commitments.
What do I gain from the network as a mentee?
All of our mentors are experienced professionals, who help mentees develop their skills, advance their goals, and enable mentees to learn from other’s experiences to reach their full potential.
Through the Mentoring Network, you will gain an external party that can help you develop skills needed to succeed and that can provide you with a different perspective to your development and career progression.
What do I gain from the network as a mentor?
Similar to mentees, mentors will be able to gain an external perspective of their industry and learn a new way of thinking – which can help in their personal and professional life.
By helping others, Mentors build on their leadership skills and develop ability to motivate and encourage. This can help them become a better manager, employee, and team member.
We also encourage reverse mentoring. In a traditional mentoring relationship, the senior, more experienced person acts as a mentor. In reverse mentoring, the experienced person is the mentee and is paired up with a younger mentor.
This helps senior employees and junior employees develop new skills. For example, a leader might want to learn new digital skills while gaining a fresh perspective on their business or industry.
Reverse mentoring doesn’t always have to be based solely on age it could be based on management level.
How do I join the Mentoring Network?
To join the Mentoring Network, please email, Karolina Pilcher.
What level do I have to be to be a mentee?
The network is set up for those starting out their careers in the financial and related professional services industry, including those studying for their professional qualifications. As an indicator, we suggest that mentees have below four or five years of experience in the industry.
What level do I have to be to be a mentor?
To be a mentor, we suggest that you are at Senior Manager level and above – you don’t need to have previous experience in mentoring.
What is the time commitment required?
Mentors and mentees work together on mutually agreed goals over a period of time agreed with each other. We suggest that mentors and mentees meet on at least a monthly basis, but each pairing designs their own mentoring relationship.