Mentoring
One person with the whole picture.
Mentoring is not a stage you buy — it runs underneath the ones you do. From the first call you have a named mentor who has worked the role you are aiming at, who can see your attendance and your practice, and whose job is to say something before a slow week becomes a lost month.
- 1:1
- a named mentor, for the whole programme
- 75%
- overall compliance tracked — attendance, self-study and practice
- 30 days
- the longest break we can hold your place for
Step by step
What a mentor does, from first call to first day
Less a slot in a calendar, more the one person with enough context to answer the question you actually have.
- 1
Kick-off and assessment
The first proper conversation: what you have done, what you can do, which roles and which market you are aiming at. It ends with a route mapped out and milestones you can hold us to — including an honest answer about how long it is likely to take.
- 2
Placing you correctly
Which programme, which starting point, and whether you need all of it. This is where a mentor earns their keep by telling you that a cheaper route is the right one, or that the stage you wanted to skip is the one you need most.
- 3
Unblocking the subject
Guidance from somebody who has done the job rather than read about it. The difference shows in what they tell you to ignore: what matters in practice, what is textbook detail, and what can safely wait until you are working.
- 4
Watching the numbers that predict trouble
We ask for 90% attendance across live sessions and 75% overall once self-study and practice are counted. Your mentor sees both figures and raises a slip early — quietly, and long before it becomes a conversation about rejoining.
- 5
Rehearsing the screening
The training stage closes with a technical and behavioural screening, and your mentor is who you practise it with. A failed attempt is feedback and another go, not a door closing — the point is to be ready, not to pass first time.
- 6
Through the search
Once the marketing stage starts, mentoring becomes interview preparation: mock rounds, a debrief after every real one, and adjustments based on what actually came back rather than what we assumed would.
- 7
At the offer
Reading an offer properly — what it means for your next move, not only this one — plus the practical end of it: background checks, documentation, and being ready for a first day that goes well.
In detail
What we ask of you
Mentoring works in both directions. None of this is difficult, and all of it is visible to the employers looking at you.
Keep your profile alive
Post, comment and connect in your field. A profile with a pulse is found by recruiters searching; a dormant one has to be sent to them.
Answer recruiters fast
Same day, and sooner if you can. A recruiter waiting on a reply has usually moved to the next profile by the time it arrives.
Turn up to what is booked
Check-ins, mock interviews and reviews are the sessions that change outcomes, and they are the first ones people quietly drop.
Write down what happened
Log the interviews you sit and the conversations you have. Patterns in the rejections are only visible if somebody wrote them down.
Keep building
Keep a project moving and work towards the certifications your field respects. A search is not a pause in learning; the people who treat it as one interview worse a month in.
Hold the 75% line
Overall compliance across attendance, self-study and practice. It is the single number that best predicts who finishes and who drifts.
What you get
What mentoring covers
- A named mentor from your first session, matched to your field
- Guidance from somebody who has worked the role you are training for
- An assessment at the start, and a route mapped out with milestones
- Progress tracked against attendance and practice, and raised with you early
- Rehearsal for the job-readiness screening, with feedback between attempts
- Mock interviews and debriefs on the real rounds once the search starts
- A single point of contact for pauses, batch changes and anything that goes wrong
Where a mentor makes the difference
- You are not sure which programme is honestly the right one for your background
- You can follow a session but freeze when you have to apply it
- You have fallen behind and would rather sort it out than quietly stop attending
- You are getting interviews and want to know why they are not converting
Straight answers
What it is not
- Not a separate purchase — mentoring runs alongside the stages you take
- Not a replacement for the sessions. A mentor unblocks the subject; the trainer teaches it
- Not a careers adviser at arm's length — mentors are practitioners in your field
Mentoring runs through all four pathways rather than sitting inside any one of them. See the four pathways.
The rest of the programme