{"id":2068,"date":"2021-01-29T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2021-01-29T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:38:11","slug":"mentoring-from-computing-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2021\/01\/29\/mentoring-from-computing-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring from Computing alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently put a call out on LinkedIn to Computing alumni to help current computing students and we had a great response!<\/p>\n<p>We have a group of alumni from a range of job roles and companies offering to mentor current students.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great opportunity to network with IT professionals and get 1:1 advice on what it is like to work in Technology. The mentoring will initially involve email\/ Teams contact to get to know each other, answer any questions, look over your CV and\/or LinkedIn account, give advice on career progression and could lead to a visit to the workplace, job shadowing and in the longer term a valuable professional contact.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to be linked up with a mentor please email <a href=\"mailto:cemsemployability@kent.ac.uk\">cemsemployability@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently put a call out on LinkedIn to Computing alumni to help current computing students and we had a great response! We have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2021\/01\/29\/mentoring-from-computing-alumni\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":2070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205105,9658,205104,5343,205133,205130,205131,205132,178026],"tags":[872,175901,184942,9666,178057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}