What Is a Mentorship?

The following link is a blog by Tim Elmore: http://growingleaders.com/blog/

Tim Elmore blogs about how unprepared college students are for the workforce. After a friend of his gave six college students a twelve-week interview, the friend admitted that he wanted to dismiss them after a month. Elmore then gives suggestions about how a student should handle a mentorship/internship. He advises that an internship should be treated as a twelve-week interview. An intern is constantly being observed, and because an internship can lead to great career opportunities, it should be treated like an actual job. He also writes that the qualities that make an intern stand out are a great work ethic, a great attitude, responsibility, and a hunger to learn.

Unlike a normal internship, my mentorship is a year-long interview. This mentorship is something that will make me stand out when applying to colleges, and it will also give me a chance to create references when applying for jobs. If I want to stand out to my mentor, I need to show all the qualities that Tim Elmore wrote about in his blog. I have begun this by telling my mentor that I would do anything for her that she wants me to do. We have also set up a weekly lesson that I give to the math class where I give them a brain teaser to work on and then we go over it. Since this is a year-long experience, I need to grow and enhance my qualities every week to continue to stand out. To do this, I have to ask questions and get myself involved in the class opposed to waiting for her to give me work to do.