The Mentors Club was born aiming to create an experimental experience that allows MBA students to complete their academic career counting with some vocational guidance by successful executives.
2 may 2017
Marisa Quintanilla, academic director of the Mentors Club Experimental Experience has achieved that 21 executives from different companies collaborate disinterestedly. All of them are former students of the Faculty and will participate in this year’s MBA.
This experimental programme was the starting signal for the MBA Master, which gathers optimum characteristics to start with the programme. As said by the academic director: “This is a small group of students, there are only 30 of them and we believe this is a good number to try out this idea. Furthermore, they are already getting ready in the MBA to start working, so they have the professional leap nearer. We pre-selected all mentors, considered who to call... And all of them said yes.”
The Mentors Club was born from the concern of different MBA professors. They thought about offering training and help to students increasing all that information learnt during lessons. This proposal was supported from the beginning by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Economics.
We pre-selected all mentors, considered who to call... And all of them said yes.”
Fernando Duato is a member of OnetoOne Corporate Finance, which is a company specialised in fusions and acquisitions and also the president of the Mentors Club. He states that “Mentors hope to be the guide for the future work life of students. What we do is to put ourselves at their disposal to solve their concerns and use our experience to lead them''.
After the Mentors Club meeting last March, in which the first months of experience were evaluated, very promising results were contrasted: Some of them work in big companies and have been invited and presented to the management team and they have participated even in work meetings. This is about knowing how the day-to-day in the job of an executive, how he interacts with the rest of people of the company, how he deals with the analysis previous to a decision making...
The Mentors Club was born from the concern of different MBA professors. They thought about offering training and help to students increasing all that information learnt during lessons.
Students enter freely to the programme through their letter of introduction. Once they are pre-selected, each student proposes five mentors of their interest and lastly, the mentors chose the students they are going to help. The only condition to apply for this programme is to be willing to be a mentor for future students.
Because of its success, an extension of the programme for two other Master’s Degrees is being planned for the next year. The goal is to extend it to the 16 Master’s Degrees offered by the Faculty of Economics of the Universitat de València.
