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CIOB Mentoring Service

We are launching a mentoring system to guide and assist those who want to join us.

Tony Ginda is the CIOB Associate Director for Retention

Tony Ginda CMgr FCMI

Associate Director - Retention

Last updated: 28th June 2021

How many of you reading this have had someone else in your career support you, guide you and help you learn the job? We know from many of our members that is exactly how their career in construction started. And we also know that many of our members want to help others in the same way.  This industry is brilliant at doing that.

As we enhance the tailored support and personalisation for those joining the CIOB so too we have put in place a mentoring system that will guide and assist those wanting to join the CIOB. You could be at the start of your career or some way into it. A mentor might just be what you need. 
 
This new mentoring system is built on the past Professional Review Champion model and connects members who want to mentor with those who need a little bit more support, giving them insight from someone who has been through the same experience.

We are rolling this mentoring system out across the globe and it focuses on providing support for those who are on the Chartered journey to Member and Fellow. But it also provides career mentoring guidance for early and experienced members too.  

The CIOB is so special in that we represent an incredible range of disciplines across the built environment, and of course everyone is different. This service supports candidates across a full range of pathways to membership, with written and video guidance and access to a specialist mentor and management tool that gives candidates a way of setting and delivering development goals.

Because our members, along with staff, have been driving the development for this mentoring guidance we are confident that it hits the mark and will resonate with those who access it. Aiding both the creation of a community of competent individuals, but also supporting new candidates in their career.

What’s in it for the Mentors? Well, being a mentor is a learning and development experience in itself, ‘giving back to the industry’ is a familiar theme we hear from our members. Of course, being a CIOB Mentor can also help you raise your own profile and develop future connections too. 

If this blog has struck a chord with you and you are either interested in becoming a mentor or wish to be mentored then please email us on [email protected].