About
Mentor-at-Home is an online mentorship program designed to help students and young creatives to make real connections. Mentor-at-home aspires to be a mentoring network for our Creative Belgium community to help talent of the next generation move forward.
NEW TALENT AWARD: Mentor-at-Home Briefing Sessions
Mentor-at-Home specials in light of Creative Belgium’s New Talent Award.
Kick start your career in advertising and design with aiming for an award, only for students. The New Talent Award briefings for 2024 are launched and we’ve got some of the most awarded agencies to join. So far, mentors have included Happiness’ Strategist Wesley Roeland, Wunderman Thompson’s ECD Arjen Tarras, Digital Creative at TBWA\Belgium Sofie Gilliams and Mutant’s Design Director Frank Schouwaerts.
They will help you to break down some of the New Talent briefings. Conducted on Zoom, each event starts with a short agency introduction, after which students will be guided through the briefing. Each session ends with a live Q&A.
"How to apply for a job in the creative sector?"
About the session
You will learn what you can expect when looking for a new job or a new internship. Nicole Madajczyk will talk about how to write a resume properly, what things to take in to account when writing a cover letter and the basics of creating your portfolio. Finally, the session will end with some tips and tricks from people who work in the creative industry itself. Don't miss out on this session, you can use this information to apply for a job, student job, internship, ... you name it!
This session is open to all students and young professionals. It will take place online on Thursday, 19 October 2023 at 6pm via Zoom.
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Connecting with an award-winning creative brings you long-term advantages. You not only benefit from the expertise and motivation from an experienced professional, you get access to different mentors and discover who you feel chemistry with. Take this opportunity to develop meaningful relationships in the industry and sign up as a mentee.
The mentorship program is open to all creative students in the field of communication & design and young creative professionals.
Move talent forward
As a mentor, you not only get the opportunity to share your experiences and catalyze growth in our industry, you learn to bring out the best in others and gain skills to improve as a leader. You get the chance to connect with the talent of tomorrow. Start lifting yourself and others in the industry up by signing up here. The mentorship program is open to Creative Belgium members only.
Calendar
In a one-hour session (12pm to 1pm), you get the opportunity to connect with talented experts from the real creative field. We match mentors from the industry with young potentials in one-on-one Zoom sessions. Creative Belgium matches the mentee and mentor profiles based upon the information gathered through the inscription forms to make sure everyone gets the most out of the session.
12 February 2024, 12PM: Mentor-at-Home Review Session: Coca-Cola
13 February 2024, 12PM: Mentor-at-Home Review Session: Twister
14 February 2024, 12PM: Mentor-at-Home Review Session: Durex
15 February 2024, 12PM: Mentor-at-Home Review Session: Adobe
16 February 2024, 12PM: Mentor-at-Home Review Session: Google-Typo