mentors
HOW TO GET STARTED?
- Learn about our mentoring approach.
- Share your professional background.
- Tell us which roles you can support.
- Discuss availability and a potential match.
- Agree on goals and next steps.
Frequently asked questions
Who can become a mentor?
We welcome interest from professionals with practical experience relevant to our interns’ roles. You should be comfortable explaining your work, offering constructive feedback, and supporting someone who is still learning. Previous mentoring experience is helpful, but patience, clear communication, and relevant expertise are equally important. Share your background so we can explore a suitable fit.
How are mentors and interns matched?
We look for alignment between your expertise and an intern’s responsibilities, learning goals, and areas for development. Availability and communication needs also matter. For example, a marketing professional might guide a marketing intern, while someone with technology experience could support an IT intern. A match depends on current needs and compatibility.
How often would we meet?
Meeting frequency and the overall commitment are discussed before mentoring begins. The arrangement should allow for consistent guidance while fitting both people’s availability. Time may include one-on-one conversations, reviewing work, and preparing feedback. We’ll clarify expectations together so you understand what you’re committing to.
SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW
ONE CONNECTION.
ROOM TO GROW.
Your experience can help an intern ask better questions, build stronger skills, and take their next professional step with greater confidence.
Focus:
ONE-ON-ONE
Match:
ROLE & EXPERTISE
Commitment:
AGREED TOGETHER
Location:
REMOTE
Help an emerging professional grow through focused, one-on-one guidance. GlowUp ACS mentors work with interns in roles connected to their own experience, helping them understand their work and develop professional confidence.
Mentoring centers on questions, feedback, and practical perspective. You’ll help an intern think through challenges and strengthen their skills while coordinating with the team responsible for their assignments.
- Discuss the intern’s role and learning goals.
- Explain relevant professional practices.
- Help break down unfamiliar tasks.
- Offer constructive feedback on work.
- Encourage problem-solving and independent thinking.
- Share useful resources and examples.
- Discuss progress and areas for development.
- Coordinate concerns with the appropriate team lead.
Your professional experience can help an intern understand both how to complete a task and why an approach works. Mentoring creates space for questions, reflection, and feedback connected to the responsibilities the intern is learning.
Relevant backgrounds may include operations, human resources, technology, marketing, media and design, education, business development, or organizational leadership. The strongest match connects your practical knowledge with an intern’s specific role.
- Share examples from your professional experience.
- Explain the reasoning behind methods and decisions.
- Help an intern recognize what strong work looks like.
- Discuss tools and practices relevant to their field.
- Encourage thoughtful questions and curiosity.
- Help connect feedback to practical next steps.
- Support growing confidence and professional judgment.
- Learn from the perspective of an emerging professional.
We look for mentors who bring relevant experience, patience, and a genuine interest in another person’s development. You should be willing to listen, explain concepts clearly, and adapt your guidance to the intern’s starting point.
Agree on a realistic commitment and communicate when your availability changes. Coordinate with the intern’s team so your guidance supports their assigned work, learning goals, and organizational expectations.
- Practical experience relevant to the intern’s role.
- Availability for agreed conversations and follow-up.
- Reliable equipment and internet for remote mentoring.
- Constructive, specific, and respectful feedback.
- Patience with questions, mistakes, and different learning needs.
- Respect for confidentiality and professional boundaries.
- Guidance that helps the intern develop their own work.
- Communication with the appropriate lead about concerns or conflicting priorities.