What we think, and why we built this.
mentorhero exists because of a few strong opinions about how careers actually open up. This is where we set them out, and where the evidence from the network gets published as it arrives.
- Countries reached
- 43
- Session length
- 30 minutes
- Cost to a mentee
- Zero
Four things we believe.
30 minutes is enough
Long mentoring relationships are wonderful and they do not scale. A single focused half hour, answering one real question, changes decisions. That is why the whole product is built around it rather than around a twelve-week programme almost nobody finishes.
Rejection is wasted infrastructure
Employers turn down millions of candidates a year and tell them nothing. Every one of those moments is a person actively looking for guidance, at exactly the point somebody could give it. Doing nothing with that is a strange choice.
Access is an information problem
The advantage passed down in professional families is not talent. It is knowing how hiring works, what a job is really like and who to ask. That information can be distributed deliberately.
Impact claims need method
Social impact reporting is full of numbers with no definition behind them. Publishing how a figure is counted, alongside the figure, should be the minimum standard rather than a differentiator.
Where to find our thinking.
Mentoring topics: straight answers to the eleven questions people bring to sessions
unstuck: first-person accounts of moments people got past
Results: what we measure, how we count it and what we refuse to claim
Global: how career access fails differently in each region
Three things we are working on publishing.
- 01
Session topic data
What people actually ask about, by region and by field, once volumes are large enough to be meaningful.
- 02
Outcome tracking method
The method before the numbers, so partners can criticise the approach before we report against it.
- 03
Employer rejection practice
A review of what happens to candidates after a no, and what better looks like.
The things people ask first.
Is this a blog?
Not in the usual sense. We publish when we have something evidenced to say rather than to a content calendar.
Can we cite your material?
Yes, with a link. If you need a figure for a report, ask us and we will send the definition with it.
Do you accept guest articles?
From mentors and partners with firsthand experience, yes. Send an outline through the contact page.
Disagree with us.
If you work in hiring, education or employment policy and think we have this wrong, we would rather hear it.