Meet a Mentor sessions 2015/16

[Maggie Cranford]

Hi guys

If you haven't come across me yet, I am now helping to organise many of the events for the GDC. I'm a Cranford too, related to Barry through marriage - my husband is Barry's uncle, and there is a post about what I do in the Recworks blog, for anyone who is interested.

It's been a while since we last called for mentors, but there has been a great deal of planning and discussion behind the scenes and we do have some dates to work towards.

This term we'll be at University College London on the evening of 19th November for a classic Meet a Mentor session - speed dating style, so that each mentor meets each small group of students. Mentors will tell the students a little bit about themselves, their career paths and the area of the industry that they are working in and then respond to the students' questions - What's it like working in a start up? What tech are you using at the moment? and lots more too. A poll will be posted very soon asking you to sign up if you are available that evening. 

We are discussing dates with King's College and Queen Mary for similar sessions and these are likely to be held in late January or early February. Also in the new year we are planning to run more Career Hacking Interview Skills events. There will be more news about all these events as soon as we have dates. Have you seen our Career Hacking presentation? It's created quite a bit of interest when we've shared it with developers, and we think it explains the mentoring principle well.

I do hope that you'll be able to mentor this academic year. As anyone who has mentored in the past knows, these sessions are really valuable to the students, and if we can have a wide range of different experiences representative of the wider developer community, that would be awesome.

As I said earlier, it's been a while since we've communicated through this group and I know that people's circumstances change. If you no longer have the time to mentor, or if you have moved and are no longer based near London, you may want to leave this group to avoid getting unwanted messages... please first accept my thanks for everything you have done for the community! 

Finally, if you know someone who would make a good mentor, please do introduce them to me - we are always happy to welcome experienced developers to the group.

Best wishes and thank you!

Maggie

[Hansel Dunlop]

Hi Maggie,

Happy to be a part of the next event. 

Cheers 

Hansel Dunlop

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[Nicky Chorley]

Hi Maggie,

I'd be interested in taking part!

Best,

Nicky

[Wesley Hall]

Hi Maggie, 

Always enjoy doing these events. I’m in.

Wes Hall

[Matthew Eric Bassett]

hi Maggie,

Happy to be a part of the next event.

On 10/22/2015 03:23 PM, Maggie Cranford wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> If you haven't come across me yet, I am now helping to organise many of
> the events for the GDC. I'm a Cranford too, related to Barry through
> marriage - my husband is Barry's uncle, and there is a post about what I
> do in the Recworks blog

> <http://blog.recworks.co.uk/introducing-maggie-cranford/>, for anyone

> who is interested.
>
> It's been a while since we last called for mentors, but there has been a
> great deal of planning and discussion behind the scenes and we do have
> some dates to work towards.
>
> This term we'll be at University College London on the evening of 19th
> November for a classic Meet a Mentor session - speed dating style, so
> that each mentor meets each small group of students. Mentors will tell
> the students a little bit about themselves, their career paths and the
> area of the industry that they are working in and then respond to the
> students' questions - What's it like working in a start up? What tech
> are you using at the moment? and lots more too. A poll will be posted
> very soon asking you to sign up if you are available that evening.
>
> We are discussing dates with King's College and Queen Mary for similar
> sessions and these are likely to be held in late January or early
> February. Also in the new year we are planning to run more Career
> Hacking Interview Skills events. There will be more news about all these
> events as soon as we have dates. Have you seen ourCareer Hacking

> presentation <http://blog.recworks.co.uk/career-hacking/>? It's created

> quite a bit of interest when we've shared it with developers, and we
> think it explains the mentoring principle well.
>
> I do hope that you'll be able to mentor this academic year. As anyone
> who has mentored in the past knows, these sessions are really valuable
> to the students, and if we can have a wide range of different
> experiences representative of the wider developer community, that would
> be awesome.
>
> As I said earlier, it's been a while since we've communicated through
> this group and I know that people's circumstances change. If you no
> longer have the time to mentor, or if you have moved and are no longer
> based near London, you may want to leave this group to avoid getting
> unwanted messages... please first accept my thanks for everything you
> have done for the community!
>
> Finally, if you know someone who would make a good mentor, please do
> introduce them to me - we are always happy to welcome experienced
> developers to the group.
>
> Best wishes and thank you!
>
> Maggie
>
>

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[Peter Kovari]

Hi Maggie,

I'd be happy to take part.

Kind regards,

Peter

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[Anup]

I'd be interested in mentoring.

Anup

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[Adam Neilson]

Hi Maggie,

That was fun last time. Count me in. 

All the best,

Adam Neilson

[Joshua Wöhle]

Hey,

happy to go to the King's session when that's set-up

Joshua Wöhle, Chief Product Officer

+44 7787524939, @JoshuaWohle
SuperAwesome

[Carlos Roman]

Happy to help out as well. Need to double check dates (will know once in November) but should be OK for 19th Nov.

-Carlos.

[Horace Bell-Gam]

Hi Maggie,

I'd like to be involved on November 19th.

Thanks,

Horace

[Abraham Marín Pérez]

Hi Maggie,

Please count me in :)

Cheers,

Abraham

[James McCall]

Hi Maggie,

 

I also would like to be involved

 

James

 

 

 

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[Anji Conroy]

Hi everyone,

As you know we have a mentoring opportunity available at UCL, 6pm-9pm approx., Thursday 19th November, as per Maggie’s email.

If you are interested in mentoring please can you sign up on this doodle poll -  http://doodle.com/poll/qnsiku3d8fz7evxp - and let us know if you can make it or not. We'll then contact you to confirm your spot.

Thanks all!

Anj

On 22 Oct 2015, at 15:23, Maggie Cranford <m...@recworks.co.uk> wrote:

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[Anji Conroy]

Hi everyone,

One last call for mentors for Thursday 19th November. It would be awesome to have two or three extra offers so we can set up a panel that is representative of as many aspects of the industry, and of people working in the industry, as possible. We’ll be confirming the mentors at the end of this week.

http://doodle.com/poll/qnsiku3d8fz7evxp 

Thanks again!

Anj

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[Justin Brister]

Anj,

I tried to sign up for this but if I am reading Doodle right it says I have said not available when I am.

Thanks,

J

[Anji Conroy]

Sorted for you :)

[Justin Brister]

Thanks

[Abraham Marín Pérez]

Hi Anji,

Apologies for late reply, I'm catching up with old email. I am available to attend.

Cheers,

Abe

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