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Mentor Recruitment Strategy
This section provides you an overview of how to target your mentor demographics.
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Mentor Recruitment Strategies
Mentor recruitment is a significant piece of preparing for a successful program. In this article, you’ll find best practices and tactics to implement for year-round recruitment efforts. Click on the link to jump to a specific section. Best Prac...
Your Recruiting Pipeline and Reporting Progress
Your Recruiting Pipeline and Reporting Progress In years past, iMentor's success in volunteer recruitment was measured in the number of RTBMs achieved by a given date (deadline). The problem with the RTBM metric is that, while it's important to kno...
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...
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...
Mentor job description
Organization Overview iMentor provides youth in underserved communities with mentors who help them develop the leadership, career, and social skills that they need to graduate high school college-ready and succeed in college. iMentor’s curri...
What makes a great mentor?
Here are the qualities and actions of great iMentor mentors. The NYC iMentor program also utilizes this document during mentor training to encourage mentors to think through the qualities and actions they already have as well as those they could wor...
Answers to questions potential mentors frequently ask
When recruiting potential mentors, we frequently encounter the following questions. While your answers may vary, it is important to expect these questions and to have your entire staff aligned on what your messaging will be. I didn't go to colle...
Mentor recruitment planning worksheet
The below worksheet will help you to determine staff roles and tasks for the recruitment, training, and screening of new mentors. It should serve as a guide in helping you allocate staff members to the mentor recruitment process and figuring out the...
How to leverage your mentor community to recruit mentors
Nominations, references, mentor ambassadors, and information sessions are effective ways to leverage your mentor community and drive mentor recruitment. Below are some helpful tips and language to use when recruiting mentors using your mentor commun...
Use pair stories to promote your recruitment campaign
Our pairs drive all the work we do. They also drive our messaging and recruitment campaigns. As you consider your outreach strategy, be sure to include pair stories that would resonate with your mentor base.
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