DOI Mentoring
The right mentor, for the gap that matters.
DOI Mentoring isn't a directory. It starts from your Career Passport, targets the specific gaps between you and your goal, and turns progress into evidence you control.
How it connects
Mentoring inside the DOI journey
DOI suggests mentoring only when it's the most useful next step — alongside learning, not instead of it.
- 1Career Passport
- 2Diagnostic
- 3Learning & readiness
- 4Mentoring (when useful)
- 5Evidence
- 6Assessment
- 7Verification
- 8DOI Ready
- 9Placement
- 10First 90 Days
- 11Progression
Programmes
Eight kinds of mentoring
Career Mentoring
Clarify direction, choose a target role and map the evidence it needs.
Industry Mentoring
Learn how a sector really works from someone who has worked in it.
Professional Readiness
Communication, reporting and workplace habits employers expect.
Skill Mentoring
Close a specific gap flagged in your Career Passport, with practice.
Placement Mentoring
Prepare for introductions, interviews and offer decisions.
First 90 Days
Structured support after you start a new role, to settle in and grow.
Leadership Mentoring
Step up to leading people, projects or teams.
Entrepreneurship Mentoring
Build and run your own venture or independent practice.
Formats
1:1, cohort or sponsored
1:1 mentoring
One mentor, one mentee, a focused plan with dated sessions.
Cohort mentoring
Small groups working on the same gap, led by one mentor.
Sponsored mentoring
Funded by an employer, institution or funder for a defined group.
After you're hired
First 90 Days
Structured support once you start a new role, so a good placement becomes a lasting one.
Day 1
Onboarding preparation
Plan your first week, questions to ask and who to meet.
Day 14
Mentor check-in
What's working, what's unclear, early wins.
Day 30
Employer feedback
Structured feedback from your employer, shared with your permission.
Day 45
Development review
Agree one or two focus areas with your mentor.
Day 60
Targeted intervention (if needed)
Extra support on a specific gap — only when useful.
Day 90
Career Passport milestone
A performance milestone you can choose to add to your Passport.
Privacy
Your notes stay yours
Private mentoring notes are never shared with employers and never become part of your Career Passport. Only structured outcomes — like a mentor's competency evaluation of your work — can be added, and only when you choose.
Get involved
Three ways in
Become a mentor
Share your experience. DOI checks identity and experience before you mentor.
Mentoring that shows up in your progress
Start with your Career Passport — DOI will suggest mentoring when it's the right next step.