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Taiwan Career Mentoring Scheme

As a QUT alumnus, you are invited to participate as a mentor to provide career advice to Taiwanese students that will help enhance their job preparation when returning to Taiwan.

What is a Career Mentoring Scheme?
Career mentoring is a type of professional mentoring that mostly focuses on career related advice. However, we find many relationships enter a more personal realm and the most effective relationships occur when rapport is built and both parties enter a stage of familiarity and trust. Clear and sustained communication, rapport building and a positive attitude are all important components of achieving the most out of a mentoring relationship.

What is a mentor?
As a mentor you would offer support, encouragement, and an 'industry perspective' to the student. No promise of employment is made or sought in a mentoring relationship. Students will typically look at long-term career goals, advice on study options and view mentors as a case study of someone else’s career to date.

Career mentors in Taiwan would also be able to help prepare students for the Taiwanese employment situation.

What do mentors get out of the scheme?

Personal satisfaction - being able to offer guidance and support to an enthusiastic student;
University course content - opportunity to keep up to date with contemporary issues and new learning;
Sourcing of students - for employment or work experience purposes;
Networking opportunities - with both mentors and students within their field;
Links with QUT - establishing or maintaining links with the university;
Personal self development - reflective practice allows mentors to consolidate their own skills and knowledge;
Management skills development - managerial practice for those currently in or aspiring to management positions. Mentors often include this experience in their professional development or on their resume;

Interested?
If you are interested in mentoring a Taiwanese student, send your details to alumni@qut.edu.au.

Building Taiwan Alumni Network

Australian Education International (AEI) Taipei seeks assistance from Australian institutions to help grow the Taiwan Australia Alumni Association (TAAA). The Association supports Taiwanese graduates of Australian institutions with networking and career development services, and also serves to increase the influence of the Australian alumni base in Taiwan.

Research shows the popularity of USA amongst Taiwanese students is largely attributable to the influence of its strong alumni network, which includes high-profile legislators and key industry and academic leaders.

To increase the strength and influence of the Australian alumni base in Taiwan, AEI Taipei and the TAAA seek the assistance of Australian universities, vocational education and training institutes and schools to encourage their graduating Taiwanese students to join the Association. Membership is free and benefits include: networking opportunities, career development services, and social activities.

Institutions can utilise the TAAA to mobilise their alumni to develop local alumni association chapters. The Association can also help contact institutions’ alumni for upcoming events in Taiwan, such as alumni functions, graduations and recruitment activities. Registering is easy, the web address www.linktaaa.og.tw can be sent to graduating students, and contains information on how to sign up.