Mentor-a-Seahawk
The Mentor-a-Seahawk Program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland is designed to help students prepare for life beyond college by connecting them with SMCM alumni for advice.
This program is a key component of LEAD 112, “Career & Network Navigation II,” a required course for all students to learn about career and professional development. Most in this course are first-year students, though there may be transfer students and individuals with varying degrees of work experience and career goals.
By volunteering to be a mentor, you can use your valuable experience and insights to help SMCM students grow and develop their professional skills and network. Mentors will be manually matched to students by the Center for Career & Professional Development. Each individual is different, so the degree of similarities between you and your mentee(s) may vary.
Mentors are expected to meet with their mentee(s) at least four times during the semester: first to connect early in the semester for an informational interview, then to examine and discuss career readiness skills and conduct a mock interview in the middle of the semester, and finally to connect for an end-of-semester wrap-up. You are of course welcome to meet with your mentee more often if you both wish to do so. Meetings can be conducted virtually or in-person.
Interested?
We are currently recruiting mentors for the spring 2026 semester. Complete this brief mentor application to support our current Seahawks this spring. We’re looking for 350 alumni mentors to sign up by January 25, 2026.
Contact us at alumnioffice@smcm.edu for more information or to make further inquiries.