Supercharge Your Career With Micro Mentoring
Find resources, opportunities, and initiatives to kickstart your mentoring journey! Enable excellence through mentoring with the IEEE Student and Young Professionals (SYP) Community.

IEEE CS SYP Micro Mentoring logoThree vital roles are crucial in every engineer’s journey: mentors, coaches, and sponsors.

  • Mentors provide invaluable guidance by speaking with you and sharing wisdom and experience.
  • Coaches offer personalized support by speaking to you and offering advice and strategies for growth.
  • Sponsors advocate for your success by speaking about you and endorsing your talents and capabilities.

Among these roles, finding the right mentor is one of the most challenging yet rewarding tasks in a professional’s life.

IEEE Computer Society SYP Micro Mentoring helps you take the first step in the mentoring journey.

As a seasoned or first-time mentor, you get the tools, administration help, and a hassle-free platform to help entry-level engineers grow professionally.

Mentees can focus on actual mentoring and leave the hassles of searching for platforms to find mentors and setting up timelines and mentoring contracts.

BECOME A MENTEE
BECOME A MENTOR

What is Micro Mentoring?


""Micro Mentoring combines mentoring features with the concept of micro or small. This means everything in Micro Mentoring is the same as traditional mentoring but occurs over a shorter time frame. Each mentoring relationship lasts about 3– 4 months and includes at least four mentoring sessions and a well-defined feedback system.

Micro (Greek letter μ, mu) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of one millionth and comes from the Greek mikrós, meaning “small.” And we have Micro Mentoring!

It is short, focused, and packed with all the essence of mentoring. The μ in the logo stands for the elements of micro mentoring:

  • The micro or μ represents short and focused mentoring – the micro version of mentoring
  • How the mentors and mentees support each other, stay connected and complete the mentoring relationship – just like the two verticals in the μ connected by the central strand. There are no disconnected independent individuals in a mentoring relationship, the mentors and mentees work together, making a bidirectional symbiotic relationship possible
  • The logo’s simplicity represents the formal structure and commitments the mentors and mentees possess
  • The gradient shows positive progress and growth in the mentoring relationship
 

Mentoring Is Noble


""Guiding the next generation is noble.

IEEE CS SYP Micro Mentoring is for both seasoned mentors, ready to share their wisdom, and first-time mentors, eager to start their mentoring journey. Being a mentor is an opportunity to give back to the community, and we handle the hassles and administrative tasks while you focus on mentoring.

The requirements for being a mentor are:

  1. (a) You are a professional or an academic (teacher/professor) with at least eight months experience in your current role or (b) have a combined experience of at least one year after your graduation in your first degree (AND)
  2. Not a student when you sign up unless you are a post-graduate research student (PhD) and satisfy part (b) of condition 1 (AND)
  3. Have a passion to guide the next generation and support their career goals

A mentor in the program will:

  • Provide guidance and support, offer advice, share experiences, and help mentees navigate challenges.
  • Assist mentees in setting realistic and achievable goals and provide feedback on their progress.
  • Help mentees advance their careers by sharing their knowledge, abilities, and industry insights.
  • Introduce mentees to valuable contacts and help them expand their professional network.
  • Actively listen to mentees’ concerns, questions, and ideas, offering constructive feedback and guidance.

Sounds like you? Join us as a mentor today!

Being a Mentee Is a Commitment


""Being a mentee is a commitment to learning, growing, and excelling. Finding a good mentor is essential for this.

IEEE CS SYP Micro Mentoring helps you find a mentor for short, focused mentoring sessions.

We are happy to host both students and young professionals as mentees in the program.

As a mentee in the program, you are expected to:

  • Participate in the mentoring relationship, communicate their objectives and aspirations, ask questions, and seek advice.
  • Work with your mentor to establish clear and achievable personal and professional development goals.
  • Hold yourself responsible for commitments.
  • Be receptive to feedback and make action plans to learn, grow, and excel.
  • Conduct themselves professionally in their interactions with their mentor, respecting their time.

Mentee application submissions are now closed. We hold three mentorship cycles each year. Check back regularly for updates.

Meet our outstanding volunteers, mentors, and mentees—the dedicated individuals who uphold the highest standards of our program. Their exemplary efforts have made it a flagship initiative of the IEEE Computer Society's Students and Young Professionals Activities. We honor and celebrate their initiative, commitment to excellence, and exceptional volunteerism.

 

Connect with the Team


Anand Jagadeesh (AJ)

Team Lead






Jihen Chouaib

Cluster Lead - Mentoring, Interactions and Relations






Uthej Kalathila

Cluster Lead - Outreach, Collaborations and Partnerships






Lavanya Cheshani

Cluster Lead - Content Management and Communications






Dhruv Singhal

Content Creator






Michel Adelino da Silva

Content Creator/Designer






Vishnu Gopal

Designer






Dhia Ouerghemmi

Mentoring Coordination






Ranuga Disansa

Mentoring Coordination






Madushan Ilangakoon

Mentoring Coordination






Taieb Jemal

Social Media and Website






Srinath R

Social Media and Website






Email Us

Reach out to us on our monitored mailbox at syp-micro-mentoring@computer.org

Signup to Become a Mentor

  • If you select WhatsApp, we will add you to the communications channel that allows better coordination and break rooms to discuss matters of importance.
  • This does not affect your selection or pairing. This allows us to understand the distribution and reach.
  • Select Not Sure/Not Known if you don't know which region you belong to.
  • Your IEEE Membership number can be obtained by signing into your personal profile on IEEE.org. You will need to log in using your IEEE Account. Your IEEE Membership card and your annual renewal notice also state your member number.
  • You need to have at least 8 months experience in the industry or a combined experience of at least 1 year after your graduation from your first degree to be eligible. We are not considering students, at the moment to be a mentor, unless you are enrolled in research or doctoral studies and have completed a masters degree.
  • This question helps us determine what level of training each mentor needs to be success in the Micro Mentoring program.
  • State Your Expectations and Why You Want to Be a Mentor in the Program.
  • Select all topics you'll be able to accept mentees for. If you don't see a topic that aligns to your experience or interest, choose "other."
  • • Accept that all the data you have input in this form is true to the best of your knowledge

    • Know that the Micro-Mentoring Program is an initiative of the IEEE CS Students and Young Professionals Activities under the Membership and Geographic Activities Board of IEEE Computer Society and will abide by the rules and guidelines set by the program's leadership team and designated coordinators

    • Will be a mentor for the paired mentees and facilitate micro-mentoring using online platforms or offline meetings as agreed between the you and the mentees

    • Will leave a legacy of volunteering to improve the program and inspire future mentors and mentees

    • Will be transparent in your communications and commitments with the Micro-Mentoring Program team and the mentees and meets expectations agreed upon the start of the program

    • Will provide constant check-ins and feedback from time to time to improve the program experience