Senior : Careers : Career Mentors
As a result of the goodwill and enthusiasm of the Knox community, some 60 mentors now participate in our mentoring program across career areas including:
- Accountancy
- Computing
- Engineering - civil, structural, mechanical
- Financial planning
- Graphic design and visual arts
- Human resource management
- Investment banking
- Law
- Medicine
- Sales and marketing
- Sports marketing
- Stockbroking
Mentor's Role
Mentoring is widely used as a strategy for self-development, career development and skills development. A career mentor is a person who has knowledge, skills, information and experience in his or her chosen industry and is willing and able to share these in order to help the student's professional understanding. The mentor's role is to prepare senior Knox students as they embark on tertiary study or as they enter the work-force following the HSC. The mentor provides the students with an appreciation of workplace culture and the challenges to be faced in each mentor's particular profession or area of expertise.
Mentors offer their time to provide support and may assume the role of career coach, confidant, counsellor, correspondent, consultant or coach. A Knox career mentor also acts as an adviser and resource person. Key responsibilities include:
- Acting as a source of information and /or insight into a specific occupational field
- Counselling regarding career development or strategies for achieving professional goals
- Assisting students with personal goal setting and planning
- Listening with an open mind, challenging and encouraging the exploration of ideas
- Encouraging professional behaviour
- Facilitating self-directed learning
The time commitment is not great and is always at the place and location of the mentor's choice. As little as three or four hours over a year may make a significant contribution to senior Knox boys.
Student's Role
Students are typically in Years 11 and 12 and looking to bridge the gap between completing their HSC studies and pursuing further tertiary studies or entering the workplace. They look to use a mentor as a resource for their own self development. The student is the driver of the relationship and ideally take most of the responsibility for their own self-directed learning.
To register as a Knox career mentor, click here to download the registration form and post, e-mail or fax it to:
Tony Higgins
Careers Advisor
Knox Grammar School
Wahroonga
Phone: 9487 0189
Fax: 9487 0199
Email: higginst@knox.nsw.edu.au
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