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  1. Understanding mentor motivations to effectively target your recruitment message

    Understanding mentor motivations is another way to segment your potential pool of applicants and target each of them effectively. We will identify some motivations that currently drive potential mentors to join a mentoring program, provide sample me...
  2. Segmenting your mentors and targeting your message

    When recruiting mentors, targeting your message to a specific subset of your potential mentors is a great way to connect with them on a deeper level and get them to attend mentor orientation. You can segment your potential mentors into whatever grou...
  3. Reporting Schedule

    Across iMentor cities and Partner Programs, there are myriad stakeholders when it comes to reporting programmatic progress toward outcomes.  The schedule below was developed in order to ensure that the most recent information is being shared and tha...
  4. Volunteer Manager Job Description

    Below is a description of the Volunteer Manager role at iMentor. Feel free to customize this for your program.  The Volunteer Manager (VM) ensures that the mentoring program provides quality, well-trained mentors for high impact mentoring...
  5. Program Director Job Description

    Below is an example of iMentor's Program Director job description. Position Overview iMentor is seeking dynamic and committed professionals to serve as a Program Director (PD) with the primary responsibility for managing Program Managers (PMs) to ...
  6. Hiring Program Managers: steps along the interview process

    The following article outlines some of the main steps of iMentor’s Program Manager (PM) interview and hiring process. Be sure to click on the links to view or download the accompanying resources used in the process. Sample position announ...
  7. What is behavioral interviewing?

    There are many different ways to evaluate a job candidate’s competencies, skills, and experience. iMentor uses a behavioral style of interviewing, and we want to make sure that all staff who may participate in the interview process know why we use t...
  8. How do we use competencies to find great talent?

    If you’ve worked with the Talent team on hiring or performance management, you’ve probably heard the word “competency” quite a bit. You may know that things like flexibility, humility, problem solving,  and  public speaking are competencies, but y...
  9. What is an ideal candidate profile?

    If you’ve ever worked on a search with Talent, or even just overheard us talking about finding the right candidate for a role, you may have heard the term Ideal Candidate Profile or ICP. If you’re wondering what that is, here’s your answer. At ...
  10. mentor2.0 Impact Report

    The  mentor2.0 Impact Report for the 2018-19 academic year highlights the scope and impact of the mentor2.0 program across the Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies implementing the iMentor model.  Questions? Email us at partnerprograms@imento...