I mentored two people who wanted to study outside of the city and now they are out of city doing their studies, so my question is should I add this in my application as an extracurricilar because someone told me that this is not about me and it doesn’t show any impact, which I disagree but I am still in a dilemma .
Mentored them doing what? What was YOUR role?
Add to that: how much time did you spend mentoring them? For just a few hours, or was this more regular, such as weekly sessions over the course of a year (for example)?
They didn’t know how to go to google and search for good scholarship and schools. I basically did these staffs and helped them to enroll in their schools.
So you basically showed some students how to use Google?
Not really. I found eligible schools and scholarship for them like a college counselor but this one counts for my home country, so a little different task.
1.are you an international student?
- You can list this if you want to…but it sounds more like helping friends navigate the internet to find information…not really mentoring. But that’s my opinion.
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Yes, personally, I frequently train/educate people on how to do certain tasks, but I would not describe those as mentorships. To me, that implies a much more comprehensive and longer-lasting relationship.
The problem is there is no hard line about when a relationship crosses over into a mentorship.
In the end, I think it is fine if the OP wants to include this activity, if it was meaningful to the OP. I just might be a little cautious about using the word “mentor”.
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What can I use instead?
How about “helped” because really that’s all you did. And that’s why I think you should likely not use this at all.
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The verb that comes to my mind based on what you described is “advised”.
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