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You are confirmed to participate as a mentor for Kollab Youth's Workforce Development Program! As a mentor, you will have access to our mentor platform. In order to gain access, please follow the steps below.
Please note:
Mentorship for Kollab Participants:
Kollab participants (16 years and older) have the option to be paired with a professional mentor so the mentor can provide guidance, motivation, emotional support, and role modeling to their mentee throughout the duration of the program. A mentor may help with their mentee’s career exploration, goal setting, networking skills, resume building, job interviewing, and much more. Mentorship is 100% online - however, if you would like to meet your mentee in person the Kollab team can help coordinate this.
The Kollab participants will have weekly meetings with their mentor, once a week for about 20 to 30 minutes each meeting. The mentorship timeline is from January 23rd and formally concludes March 16th
Mentor Meetings are to gain feedback from the youth regarding:
Mentorship Information Packet: Click here to view the information packet.
Some useful tips from Mentors:
Here are some prompts/tools I used with my mentees that seemed to work well.
-1st week challenge - find/connect with me on Linked In.
Then the next week I gave them some ideas for their Linked In page and encouraged them to connect with every professional and peer participating in Kollab -Conversation about their future vision for their lives (follow up to their master class assignment GPS for Success).
Follow up questions about what their life might look like in 5, 10, 20 years from now (where do they live? with whom? how do they spend their free time? what are they studying? where are they working? are they volunteering?)
- I shared with them my professional journey which started in a very different place then where I am now. They are very interested in how one opportunity leads to the next. I encouraged them to stay open as their talents may find applications in fields they have not yet considered (often because they don't yet know about these career pathways)
-The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need Got them both this book (link above) - The Adventures of Johnny Bunko by Daniel Pink. Japanese anime style career guide about finding purpose through work.
- Most of all encourage them to talk about what they got out of the sessions and what questions the Kollab content is making them ask themselves. The more they talk about it the deeper an impression this great experience will make. Connect them with people in their desired fields too so they can keep learning and networking post program.
Example Emails from Mentors to Assigned Teens
Hello, I hope you and your loved ones are well. I am your Kollab Program Mentor for the "Summer" Session. I can't wait to hear about how your week has been. Also, as an ice breaker when we meet, I would like you to share about something that inspired you this week and why.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m excited for our mentoring session together this Friday at 1:00 pm. If this time doesn’t work for you, let me know other times that may work better for you.
As an ice breaker I’d like us to share about someone who inspires us and something we’ve learned during this Kollab Program.
In addition to being a mentor, I’m also on the Advisory Board for the Boys & Girls Club Alliance of Los Angeles and Kollab. Professionally I’m a Vice President for Global Account Management with Robert Half, which is a global human capital, internal audit, financial, operations, technology, governance and risk consulting firm. Here’s a few links where you can learn more about me and my firm:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgemarquezrhsa/
https://www.roberthalf.com/about-robert-half
Protiviti (Wholly Owned Consulting Subsidiary of Robert Half) – https://www.protiviti.com/
Looking forward to learning more from each other, sharing opportunities and growing collectively.
The Journey is the Destination!
Best Regards,
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Thank you! Please reach out with any questions or concerns.
Best Regards,
Adriana "Sari" Chaparro
Program Manager
Kollab Youth Workforce & Career Development Program
schaparro@kollabyouth.org
M: (818) 256-0827
Sari Chaparro
Program Manager
Kollab Youth Workforce & Career Development Program
Kollab Youth Mentor Meeting Outline (pdf)
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