CILIP | Becoming a mentor

If you have experience or training as a mentor you can register straight away. CILIP Mentoring Workshops are being run by PTEG across the UK.

Support for mentors does not end with the initial training, the Personnel,Training and Education group organizes the Mentor Support Network.

Additional support is available through the mentor discussion list which, to facilitate open discussion, is restricted to registered mentors. This acts as a forum for you to share, and resolve, issues arising from your mentoring work with candidates for the range of CILIP qualifications. Details of joining the list are included in information sent to newly registered mentors.

As well as mentor training there are opportunities to attend an introduction to mentoring within CILIP's Framework of Qualifications featuring this slide presentation (352KB).

Being a mentor entails commitment and responsibility however it will contribute to your professional development, working towards Revalidation and Fellowship, furthermore it will broaden your own network.

If you would like to participate as a Mentor please complete an application form (Word, 97KB). In the statement you can say how many candidates you would be willing to take on, if you prefer them to be from the same sector or the same organization as you. More details including the Mentor contract are in the Mentor scheme guidelines.

If you have registered as a mentor or are applying to be a mentor you should read the Mentor scheme guidelines (120.0KB) closely.
***Guidelines have been revised August 06***

One of your first tasks as a mentor is to help candidates put together a development plan. A slide presentation, Writing a Successful Development Plan, has been created to support this process.

Frequently asked questions

Reading list

Making Mentoring Work an article published in Impact Winter 06

The Mentoring Pocketbook by Geof Alred, Bob Garvey, Richard Smith. Management Pocketbooks, 2006

Tips for being a Mentor by Lisa Foggo (article published in Impact: the journal of the Career Development Group)

Updated: 19 March 2008