Welcome to the DCU Career Mentoring Programme

The DCU Career Mentoring Programme pairs second year students with alumni mentors for the purpose of career and professional development. The programme runs for six months and is a joint initiative between the Alumni Office and the University's Careers Service.

The programme sees alumni and students matched together based on their areas of professional expertise, DCU course and career areas of interest. Alumni mentors are asked, if possible, to provide their student mentee with a work-shadowing day as part of the programme. 

Mentors come from a wide range of top-tier organisations. As Ireland's University of Enterprise the programme adds another layer of our engagement with industry. 

Mentorship is a mutually beneficial relationship and is part of the “transformative student experience” DCU offers. Mentors pass on priceless insights and expertise that can only come from ‘real world experience’. In return, the programme provides Mentors with a range of benefits that can be captured on their CV. The programme also offers mentors a chance to reflect on their professional practice and development.

This programme was previously known as the DCU Structured Mentorship Programme, and won the prestigious IITD National Training Award for Excellence in Coaching and Mentoring for 2018 and was shortlisted as a finalist in 2020 and 2021.