The program is open to all IIT Alumni living in Greater New York Area and TiE Tri-State members. The program requires meeting with Mentor’s face-to-face on a monthly basis and therefore is restricted to those who live in NY, NJ and Connecticut.

The program is available through a 4 month Mentorship Engagement during which each Mentor accepts two to three mentees for one-on-one mentorship. Please refer to program section for more details

You can participate in the program by submitting an application to the program, which is accepted only during the application period. For detailed information about the application process please read the Mentee Application Procedure section.

Mentee Responsibilities

This program offers tremendous opportunity to interact, learn and discuss issues with highly successful senior decision makers who are committed to providing mentorship. In return we ask the mentees to participate in the program with equal commitment, dedication and respect as you will receive from the mentors. We expect the mentees to have clearly though through their mentorship needs and have a few well-define objective that they hope to achieve through this program. We expect them to engage in dialogue and not expect ready-made answers and we expect to devote time and energy and show flexibility during the program. Below we have captured a few responsibilities that we expect of those who participate in this program

• Be available for one-on-one meetings with their mentor once a month
• Reach out to Mentor’s to set up meeting and be flexible
• Respect the Mentors schedule and always show up and leave on time
• Come to the meeting prepared to make best use of your/Mentor’ time
• Not solicit Mentors for a job, introduction or recommendations
• Keep the counseling to professional topics