Volunteer Mentor Review

by City Year UK

Rating

3.4/5
  • Skills
    3.5
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    2.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    2.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • I do 1 to 1 mentoring sessions with certain students, particularly ones with behavioural issues. Also, i provide in class support in maths and English, and do withdrawals if students seem behind in lessons.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I've worked on my confidence. I also learnt how to tailor help for different students either different needs


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 3/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes. We has to run lots of clubs and alongside working in schools, we had work from City Year to complete such as CMI


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 3/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Very little until the end


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 2/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 2/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Positive, we celebrated cultural day


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Working with students


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 3/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 2/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at City Year UK
  • 3/5

  • 7. Would you recommend City Year UK to a friend?
  • No


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to City Year UK
  • There's a lot of work, so be organised


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Voluntary

London

July 2022


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