Career Mentoring program

Greeting from Minister of State Ulrike Scharf (StMAS)

Career Mentoring at a glance

The mentoring relationship offers the perfect opportunity to reflect on your professional and personal plans with an experienced person. So much so, that it's often your mentor that ends up being the bridge between you and your first job.

We have approximately 750 volunteer mentors — all boasting a wealth of professional experience. These are academics whose expertise spans multiple disciplines, industries and professions. They will seek to answer all your questions and smooth the way for a successful new career.

And it's great fun! Our mentees and mentors all agree that mentoring isn't just about progressing professionally and personally. It's an enjoyable experience. The fact that many former mentees return to us years later to become mentors is certainly proof of that.

A mentoring tandem lasts about 18 months.
Mentor and mentee meet in person once or twice every six months and keep in touch via phone or email.
Most tandem opportunities provide an experienced perspective on stepping onto the career ladder – as well as deal with questions about studying and careers in general. Of course, you decide the direction the conversation takes.
Mentor and mentee determine the topics, meeting times and locations themselves.
By enjoying a lineup of engagements or LMU career events, both sides can expect to grow their network to include other mentors and students.