Become a mentor and help others grow professionally

1)  Application process: In the first part, you'll be asked to fill out general information about yourself and your experience. In the second part, you will self-assess your mentoring skills. This will take up to 10 minutes.
2) Waitlist: Due to a high number of mentor applications, we might add you to our waitlist. Your application will be processed if we have a spot available. Please be aware that waiting times might vary as we are processing mentor applications based on our mentors’ and mentees’ needs.
‍2) Video interview: If you are selected, we'll invite you to the second round of the application process. You'll talk with your Mentor Success Manager about your experience, motivation and skills. We'll also explain to you how the program works.
3)Selection: You have to meet 80% of our mentor criteria to be accepted to mentor. If you are selected, you can join our mentor community and wait until we find the right mentee for you. You can network with other mentors in the Slack channel or via 1:1 networking, and go through our mentor training to prepare for your first mentee.

We are unable to give a specific timeline for you to be matched with a mentee. We really focus on the mentee’s specific needs so it may take weeks or months to be sure we make the right choice. Once we have the right mentee for you, we’ll connect with you via email and share with you the mentee’s profile.

The program contains not only mentoring, but also other activities, like exclusive resources, events, discounts, and perks. We’re charging a fee to the mentees to make sure they are committed, motivated, and active during the program. We’re keeping the program affordable so that we can help the ones who don’t get the program covered by their companies. We’re also offering (almost) full scholarships to the ones who can’t financially afford it.

All our mentors have to start as volunteers and later after they finishing mentoring and receive a good review from the mentee, they can request to paid as well. We also have a mentor tiering system in place that rewards the volunteer mentors who keep mentoring with us. You can earn different benefits  such as mentor spotlights on our social media or donation to our scholarship fund in your name (covers 50% -90% fee of a mentee in need). If you want to join as a paid mentor, you have to be able to send us an invoice when the mentoring ends.

We hope that the experience will be rewarding for you in a different way as we provide you with opportunities to gain mentoring skills, as well as we give you access to networking opportunities in the online mentor community. 

We require 12 hours of mentorship during a 6 month period.

We match all the mentees and mentors on a 20 min chemistry call. If you don’t feel that it is a good fit, you don't have to start mentoring officially. We’ll match you with someone else when we have a mentee that is a better fit for you.

After your onboarding call, we will send you our Mentor Guide that includes the Mentor training. In this training, you’ll learn among many topics:
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1) The difference between coaching and mentoring, and how to recognize when your mentee would benefit more from a coaching approach
2) How to respond and be supportive when a mentee complains about things in her career and life
3) Building a relationship with a mentee, without feeling like you have to reveal secrets about your personal life
4) What is a chemistry meeting and what set of items to agree on

Within the Femme Palette community, we hold many events and workshops on a range of professional and personal topics. As a mentor, you are welcome to join. Based on your tier, you'll receive access to the events for free or with a discount. For mentors, we organize different mentor trainings and webinars that are free of charge.

We understand that life happens! If you can no longer work with your mentee for whatever reason, please email us and we can make a plan to move forward from there.