RUB Alumni as mentors

As a mentor, you pass on knowledge to students and in return receive fresh ideas and impulses from young academics. You can also discover future professionals for your own company.

You reflect on your own career path and exercise your social and communication skills. Through contact with other mentors, you will gain new cooperation opportunities for your personal network.

• Time required: A mentor and mentee tandem lasts one year. During this time, there are at least three face-to-face meetings as well as regular contact via telephone or e-mail.
• A mentor to mentee-tandem can be started at any time of the year
• Travelling to RUB is not required

Mentoring programs at RUB

Other experiences

• "I'm a mentor because I want to support graduates with my experience and tips for starting their careers."
  - Alexei Dmitrenko, alumnus of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

• "I support mentoring because the exchange in a mentoring program offers the opportunity to share experiences and learn from each other."
  - Ulrike Rüthing-Vollmer, alumna of the Faculty of Philology

• I support mentoring because it can make it much easier for younger people to start their careers and because the exchange in a tandem is so thematically rich and inspiring.
  - Susanne Eyssen, alumna of the Faculty of Social Sciences

• "I am a mentor because I think it is important to provide graduates and doctoral students with career guidance related to industrial practice, to offer them a sparring partner and to give them an insight into their possible future career."
  - Dr. Jörg Smukala, alumnus of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

• "I am involved in mentoring because I want to convey my enthusiasm for geophysics and pass on experiences from my professional life as a geophysicist. It should also help to break down prejudices about 'women and technology' in the minds of men and women."
  - Barbara Lingscheidt, alumna of the Faculty of Geosciences

• "I support mentoring because my education at RUB forms the foundation with which I can fulfill my current responsibility as a board member every day."
  - Marcus A. Wassenberg, alumnus of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

• "I am a mentor because I like to pass on my experience to young people and get to know their view of things through exchange - a mutual enrichment!"
  - Prof. Dr. Dorothee Feldmüller, alumna of the Faculty of Mathematics

• "I support mentoring because companions are good for you!"
  - Dr. Thekla Kiffmeyer, alumna of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry

• "I support mentoring because I can make a big difference with my experience and small tips. My previous mentees were impressive young personalities, so the contact was also enriching for me. Mentoring is fun and creates value!"
  - Prof. Dr. Michaele Völler, alumna of the Faculty of Mathematics

• "I supported mentoring because I like to help people develop further."
  - Alexandra Elflein, alumna of the Faculty of Psychology