It is a great responsibility to be mentoring someone due to the risk and responsibilities the role brings. But experienced and professional mentors are capable of not only making sure that their mentees are pointed in the right direction, but also making the most of their experience.

Mentoring is only possible with a powerful mindset in which the mentor is not only deeply experienced but also capable at recalling their experiences precisely and utilize their knowledge to judge the situation at hand and solve it in the light of their experience. At Jacob International Group we use a ‘Targeted Mentoring approach’ where we assign an experienced and professional mentor to address a pressing issue that a mentee may have.

Although there are numerous roles that a mentor assumes, three of the major roles are: