I. II. OBJECTIVE: To provide a formal platform to the final year students to leverage on the vast experience and knowledge of our illustrious alumni base in order to assist them in making well-informed career choices. i. ii. PROCESS DETAILS: A. ALLOCATION OF MENTORS The Alumni Committee shall invite an Expression of Interest from the alumni for registering themselves as mentors, via a group email/facebook The Alumni Committee will seek the following details from the interested alumni: Name, Current Organization, Designation, Industry, Sub-sector, E-mail, Contact No. etc. The Alumni Committee will invite a similar Expression of Interest from the final year students, including their choice of industry and sub-sector. Depending on the response received from both the parties, the Alumni Committee will assign alumni mentor(s) to groups of students. Each group of students will also be assigned a point of contact from amongst the Alumni Committee members. The student mentees will be required to interact with the assigned mentor(s) in a group, in the presence of all group members, via phone or over e-mail. The Alumni Committee POC may be included in the discussion, when required. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. B. ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUM The Alumni Committee will maintain an online Mentorship Forum allowing each final year student to have access to all enrolled alumni mentors. The students will be granted the permission to post their queries on vertical-specific public discussion forums and receive responses from the alumni. ix. The discussion forums will be jointly moderated by the Alumni Committee and the respective interest group. The following interest groups will be moderating the discussion forum specific to their vertical: Page | 1 viii.
Abakus (IT and Systems) FY (Finance) Alumni Mentorship Program 2011 HRiday (Human Resources) Konsult (Strategy) mPower (Marketing) Omega (Operations) III. ROLE DEFINITIONS
A. ALUMNI COMMITTEE The Alumni Committee members will be responsible for allocation of mentors to groups of mentees and for joint moderation of the Discussion Forum. The POC in charge of each group will be responsible for follow-up with his/her assigned group(s) from time to time and for addressing any issues raised. B. ALUMNI MENTORS
The Students will contact the allotted Alumni mentors through their preferred mode of communication (phone/e-mail) The Alumni mentors shall actively seek to answer students queries raised on the Discussion Forum pertaining to their industry vertical, to the best of their ability and knowledge. The Alumni mentors shall inform the Alumni Committee of any misconduct or violation of norms by the student mentees. They may also choose to alert the Alumni Committee regarding disinterest or low participation/interaction shown by their assigned mentee or group(s).
C. STUDENT MENTEES The student mentees are expected to utilize this opportunity to the utmost and proactively seek guidance from the assigned Alumni mentor and through the Discussion Forum for individual queries. The student mentees shall ensure that they interact with their assigned mentor(s) on a regular basis. The student mentees shall keep the interest of their entire group in mind during each interaction. Every telephonic interaction with the assigned alumni mentor(s) should be done Page | 2
in the presence of all group members and every e-mail sent to the assigned alumni mentor(s) shall be CCed to all the group members as well as the assigned POC.
In case of any issues, the student mentees are advised to contact their assigned POC. D. INTEREST GROUPS & KONQUEST Alumni Mentorship Program 2011 The IGs shall prepare an initial set of questions related to their industry and sub-sectors within the industry to be raised and answered over the Forum by the alumni. Following this initiation, the interest groups will take on a leadership role in moderating the discussion over the Discussion Forum.
Disclaimer: In case of any untoward incident reported by the Alumni/Alumni Committee member/Interest Group/Konquest, the Alumni Committee reserves the right to ban the concerned student from any subsequent interaction with alumni. Page | 3 Konquest will help Alumni Committee in coordinating this Mentorship Program.