University Mentorship Program Toolkit and Resources
Background
The CIA’s New Members Advisory Group (NMAG) has the mandate to identify,
create, and facilitate volunteer opportunities for new Associates
(ACIAs) and Fellows (FCIAs) interested in supporting the actuarial
profession. The NMAG identified new CIA members mentoring university
actuarial students as a fantastic volunteer opportunity. Mentoring
provides benefits to the mentee, mentor, organization running the
program, and the overall profession.
After surveying representatives of actuarial departments and student
clubs at universities across Canada about the presence of mentorship
programs, the New Members Advisory Group collaborated with student
actuarial clubs to provide content, mentors from our pool of new
members, and help to establish or improve such a program.
This mentorship program package can help university actuarial clubs,
university administrators or faculty, or anyone else interested in
actuarial students, administer a mentoring program.
The ask
We are providing you with an opportunity to support your students
through a mentoring program. Our vision for this program is that
actuarial professionals (e.g., ACIAs, FCIAs) would mentor your actuarial
students by sharing their experiences and knowledge. We envision this
program would last a semester or two providing multiple opportunities
for the mentee and mentor to meet to discuss topics of interest to the
mentee.
Support from the NMAG
The NMAG created this package to help you facilitate and administer a
mentoring program. The NMAG will also offer the following support:
- Assistance in finding mentors through communications to new
members on our distribution list and through our network of actuarial
professionals.
- Ad hoc communications throughout the mentoring program to provide assistance/answer questions.
The NMAG is unable to act as the administrator for your program, but
we can support you in your role as the mentoring program administrator.
Getting started
Review the materials in this package and feel free to use whatever
material you want, replace/edit where appropriate, and disregard any
material you do not need.
The NMAG would appreciate hearing from you, especially if you are
interested in creating a mentoring program. To reach the NMAG, please
contact
eric.mastropietro@cia-ica.ca.
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