Mentoring
Many CPCS students have career-related questions about the public and community sector. As a CPCS graduate working in the field----YOU may be the person with the answers for our inquiring students. It might be a student seeking advice on which course or field work is more pertinent to their chosen career---it could be a student who is job hunting and seeking additional information about a specific agency or organization----or it could be an almost grad wanting to shadow a professional for a day to gain a better understanding of what a particular position really entails and learn about opportunities available in that field.
You could be the person with the answers. Your involvement could be as simple as a short phone conversation---- answering a question or two for a student, or it could be as involved as spending several hours having a student shadow you on the job. The level of involvement is up to you.
Please help us compile a directory of CPCS grads working in a wide variety of positions and willing to spend some time with CPCS students ---sharing their expertise to guide that student in career making decisions. If you are interested, please email me at suzanne.allmendinger@umb.edu and tell me the ways you are interested in participating in our mentoring program, give me your job title and the organization you work for and tell me the best way to get in touch with you: day/evening phone, e-mail.
