The FLEX Alumni Team in Moscow invites you to join a new project - Professional Mentoring Program - taking place February 22 through April 11.

The mission of the Program is to transmit the professional and personal experience of senior alumni to junior alumni for the common benefit of the community and each alumnus/alumna individually. By the means of this program the younger alumni will be able to practically develop the long-term plan of their careers with the expertise of their older peers, and the senior alumni will gain the experience of talent incubation and management. One tangible expected outcome of the Program includes younger alumni receiving internships and job offers. These might be in their mentors’ companies or in other leading companies of the market. We also believe this program will strengthen the cross-generation ties among alumni, and raise the level of communication and cooperation in our community.

The Mentoring Program in Moscow is a pilot project for a major Eurasia-wide initiative, which will later by implemented in the major FLEX alumni resident cities – Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Almaty, Baku, etc.

In the course of the Program a group of 10-15 outstanding older alumni with significant professional experience and successful careers will each take on the responsibility of guiding 1-2 younger alums, who are just starting their career paths in the same professional field. During the 9- week program all the Mentors and Mentees will participate in bigger trainings by renowned trainers and professionals, and will also meet regularly (once a week) in smaller Mentor+Mentee(s) teams to work on the personal cases, create and control the execution of personal development plans, discuss the trainings they've participated in, and share experience of their common professional field. The Program will present its results and recognize participants at a high-level reception with involvement of the US Embassy during the Moscow FLEX Alumni Professional Development Week 2010 (22-28 April).

MENTORS will:

• need to demonstrate relevant experience and a desire to guide development of young talents;
• commit to participate in an orientation training one evening in early March;
• participate in three professional development trainings with all other participants of the Program (Saturday afternoons and Wednesday evenings);
• hold a minimum of four personal meetings with their Mentee(s) during the nine weeks of the Program;
• give the opportunity of at least one professional exposure opportunity for the Mentee(s): tour in the company of the Mentor, business meetings of the Mentor or else.
• direct mentees to sources of information about vacancies and internship opportunities;
• be open to communication via Internet, phone, etc.

MENTEES will:

• need to demonstrate sincere intention of growth and first accomplished results on the path of the chosen professional field;
• commit to participate in an orientation training and three professional development trainings;
• attend meetings with Mentor in a timely and responsible manner;
• complete the tasks assigned by Mentor and obligations taken over.

Interested to participate? Send your CVs to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it AND fill out the application online:

Mentors here – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KSJQQ28

Mentees here - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y7DJ7BL

The official presentation of FLEX Mentoring Program will take place at Winter Reunion on February 20.

Please be certain that all information received will be handled with confidentiality.

We expect to make tentative "pairs" and then propose them to mentors for final approval no later than Feb. 26.

Where possible, we will share the appropriate mentees' applications with mentors to allow for some choice.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us!!!

Help this pilot to be a success!!!

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