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The Financial Women's Association of San
Francisco offers a mentoring program for its scholarship
recipients. The purpose of the program is to provide support
for career development in two major ways: First, one or more
mentors are selected for each interested scholarship
recipient. The goal is to enhance a protégé's career
progress by matching her with a mentor who is from a similar
financial field or educational background and who might also
have faced similar challenges in her personal life. Second,
the FWA sponsors semiannual meetings involving all mentors and
protégés, which provide the opportunity for protégés to
network with mentors other than their own as well as with other protégés.
At each meeting one or more speakers address various career
development topics.
As for the relationship of the mentor to the protégé, the
program is essentially protégé-driven. It is therefore up to the
protégé to initiate a meeting with her mentor and to
determine the topic(s) for discussion at each meeting. While the
length and frequency of the meetings are to be determined by
the needs of the protégé and by the schedules of both the
mentor and protégé, it is anticipated that an average of one
to two hours a month should be sufficient. Some examples of
topics that might be addressed during such meetings would be:
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Improvement of resume drafting skills
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Networking for employment opportunities
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Assessing career opportunities
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Addressing on-the-job challenges
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Exploring ongoing educational training and
other career development opportunities
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Balancing career and personal goals
The FWA anticipates that a protégé will be involved in the
formal mentoring program for a maximum period of two years.
However, the FWA hopes that through the mentoring program,
protégés develop meaningful relationships that offer personal
and professional support for years
to come.
Want to become a mentor? Please contact - (925) 254-0387.
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