Could A Mentor Help You With Your University Application?

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Could A Mentor Help You With Your University
Application?
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• Mentors can be incredibly useful tools in many
  fields, whether it be from a personal or
  professional perspective, and many people use
  them to help find a new career, or progress in
  their current one. While some use the term
  coach in place of mentor, there is in fact, a
  difference between the two
• Mentoring and coaching, two very different
  things
• Being someones mentor has similarities with
  being their coach, but mentoring focuses on
  building a long and lasting relationship that
  supports the growth and development of the
  mentee. Mentors are a source of wisdom, teaching
  and

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• infinite support, but they do not give
  observational guidance related to certain actions
  or behavioural changes in daily work or personal
  circumstances.
• Coaches, on the other hand, place an emphasis
  upon making certain current behaviours stronger,
  or eradicating them wherever necessary.Usually
  employed by professionals, they help to correct
  and strengthen those behaviours that will help
  the individual progress in their career or
  improve their performance at work. They are
  usually taken on for a set period, in which the
  individual will be expected to reach the targets
  agreed between the two.

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• A brief history of mentoring
• Believed by scholars to have been written in the
  8th century BC, Homers poem entitled The
  Odyssey is where the term mentor is first
  known to have been featured. The king of Ithaca
  went to do battle in the Trojan War and left his
  kingdom in what he believed to be the safe hands
  of the character, Mentor.
• The current dictionary definition of the term
  mentor, describes it as a trusted counsellor or
  guide, or someone who helps you with your
  career, specific work projects or general life
  advice based upon their own selfless wishes to
  help others progress.

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• Could a mentor help you with your university
  application?
• It is difficult to imagine how a good mentor
  couldnt help any one of us, so provided you find
  a good one, there is every chance that they could
  go on to help you put forward a successful
  university application. As mentors are usually
  experienced professional people who have been
  there, done that and got the t-shirt, they are
  perfectly suited to help give advice and guidance
  to younger professionals who are just thinking
  about taking a university course to help give
  them a worthwhile career. They are of course
  particularly effective, if they have studied the
  same course that you will be applying for. While
  they may not give

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• specific advice on how to complete your
  application, they will help you to face your
  fears, embrace your goals, and look at how you
  challenge yourself professionally and personally.
  In many cases, mentors go on to help people live
  their lives to the fullest, and their guidance is
  often extended far past achieving a place at
  university, or bagging the job of your dreams.
• A good mentor can genuinely be the factor that
  enables you to progress in life in exactly the
  way you wish to, whether they are supporting you
  as you apply for a university placement or
  helping you to cope with personal issues in your
  life.

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• Oxbridge Sciences was set up by a group of
  Oxbridge Graduates who felt that there was a need
  to demystify the admissions process, providing
  advice and guidance to talented students with
  Oxford and Cambridge university tuition. Among
  our founders include Doctors, Research scientists
  and management consultants all graduates of
  Oxford and Cambridge. All of our oxbridge
  applications tutors are either current or very
  recently graduated students of Oxford and
  Cambridge University. We have hundreds of
  applications each year for tutoring spots and we
  typically only choose a select few to join us in
  our very unique aim.