Economics and Management Students, You are invited to apply for the 2013-2014 Gustavus Mentoring Program, sponsored

by the Economics and Management Department and the Center for Servant Leadership at Gustavus Adolphus College. This program will pair you with a successful Gustavus alumnus, whose goal is to offer you advice, insight, and their personal perspective on business related topics. Your mentor will work with you on important matters such as resume building mock interviewing, and networking. Throughout the school year, it is our hope that this mentoring relationship will develop into a solid foundation for your future career development. Student participants would be expected to 1) Attend a brief student orientation session on Monday October 7th, in Beck Hall 101 at 7:00pm 2) Attend the opening program banquet on Monday October 14th at the American Swedish Institute in the Twin Cities 3) Interact with your mentor monthly either in person, on the phone, or online 4) Potentially visit your mentor at their place of work for a job shadow opportunity or January Internship. 5) Attend the closing spring banquet and networking event in the Twin Cities in May 6) Evaluate the programs success and provide constructive feedback for future years We will only be able to accept as many students as there are mentors. We are aware that there are many applicants so we are working as hard as we can to find as many mentors as possible. If you are interested in participating, please complete the following application and email it back to EMmentoring@gustavus.edu as a Word document with your first and last name in the title. This must be submitted NO LATER THAN MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH. Best Regards, The Gustavus Mentoring Program Team
Sarah Barthell 14 Student Coordinator Psychology major & Spanish minor Andrew Oakes 14 Student Coordinator Financial Economics major Ben Reynolds 14 Student Coordinator Management major Kathi Tunheim Ph. D. Assistant Professor and Endowed Chair in Management & Leadership Amy Pehrson 91 Mentoring Program Coordinator and Assistant Director for Vocation & Integrative Learning

Gustavus Alumni Mentoring Program The Gustavus Department of Economics & Management/Center for Servant Leadership| EMmentoring@gustavus.edu 800 West College Avenue | St. Peter, Minnesota 56082-1498 | 507-933-8000 | gustavus.edu

Students, This application will be used to appropriately match you with a mentor that shares as many similarities across categories as possible. Our staff will do our best to accommodate all requests. Please answer honestly.
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1. Name 2. Year in College 3. Hometown 4. Gender 5. Major 6. Other Interests/Hobbies 7. Have you participated in the mentoring program before? If so, who was your mentor?

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1. What are your career aspirations? 2. What do you hope to gain from this mentoring relationship? 3. What qualities are you looking for in a mentor? 4. Why should we select you to participate in our program?
NOTE: Our research has proven that same gender and same ethnicity mentoring relationships are far more successful than gender and ethnicity dissimilar relationships (Wright & Wright, 1987). We will do our best to match pairs accordingly, as long as career aspirations are compatible. If you feel strongly about either side of this subject, please make note of it and we will accommodate to your requests.

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