Intercultural Career Mentoring Program

The Program Launch Day consists of two sessions. The first session will guide you through developing your intercultural skills, and in the second session you will meet your mentors and fellow group members. Main training topics will include:

• Different aspects of the local and global knowledge important for employment, including expectations of local and international employers, established workplace processes in local and international organisations, and hierarchical structure in local and international organisations.
• Intercultural resilience and mindfulness including cultural self-awareness and socio-linguistic awareness, openness and curiosity to different opinions, cultural sensitivities in work discussions and interviews, and listening and observing skills.

Session 1:  Mentee Training
Tuesday 11 August 2026, 1:00 - 5:30pm

This will be the first session in the Intercultural Career Mentoring Program. The session is designed to create an uplift in the benefits of any mentoring process by increasing both levels of cultural awareness and specific intercultural skills.

During the session, participants will create their own personal cultural profile to highlight how their own cultural background influences many common behaviours.

From here they will create templates for dealing respectfully with people whose cultural background differs from their own.

The session integrates activities designed to clearly demonstrate the differences that are usually unconsciously disregarded or assumed to be non-existent.

Direct outcomes for participants of this session are:

• To be able to identify their own personal cultural orientation.
• To be able to critically analyse any intercultural situation.
• To correctly use templates that assist mentees in applying their intercultural skills until these skills become fully integrated in a mentee’s behaviour.
• To understand when cultural differences may not require a modification in behaviour.

As indirect outcomes of this training, participants will have a better understanding of the intercultural barriers to employment and how to mitigate risk factors as well as increased confidence in dealing with people from an unfamiliar background.

Session 2: Mentor Introduction - con
Wednesday 6 August 2025, 6 - 8PM

This will be the second session in the Intercultural Career Mentoring Program. In this component you will meet your mentors and fellow mentees. The mentors and mentees will be from various fields of Engineering and IT as well as various different cultural backgrounds, however have similar goals to achieve from the program. You will have the opportunity to share experiences and advice, connect and learn from each other.

In the weeks following the Mentor Introduction, we encourage you and your group to continue your mentoring conversation via online platforms.

Following Launch Day, groups of mentors and mentees will meet as arranged by each individual groups. Groups are encouraged to explore intercultural topics and reflect on working and leading in diverse spaces while benefiting from the advice and guidance of several mentors.

Tuesday 13 October 2026

The final event of this program will be the Celebration and Networking Event. Here you will be invited to come along to network and connect with all the participants of the program. An opportunity to build connections and further your professional partnerships whilst in real time putting your learning from the program to practice, as well as to build connections with the other mentors and students in the program who aren't in your immediate group. This is a great opportunity to learn more from the mentors about the industries in which they are working - industries you may move into following graduation.