Student-Alumni Career Connect
Offer one-time mentoring conversations, informational interviews, and career advice through an online network connecting students with Rutgers alumni and friends.
Become a Mentor. Shape What’s Next.
Support Rutgers–New Brunswick students as they explore careers, build confidence, expand their networks, and prepare for life after graduation—get started in just a few minutes.
Why Mentor with Rutgers?
Mentors help students see what is possible. By sharing your experience, perspective, and professional journey, you can help Rutgers students build confidence, explore career paths, and make informed decisions about their future. Many Rutgers students credit mentoring as a key factor in building confidence, exploring career paths, and achieving successful outcomes.
Flexible Ways to Mentor
Start with one conversation or get involved more deeply—choose what fits your time, experience, and interests.
Intern for a Day
Host a student for a one- to three-day job shadowing experience that provides workplace exposure, career insight, and real-world learning.
Scarlet Career Mentoring Course
Mentor a student through a structured, semester-based experience connected to a job simulation project and career development course.
4WARD Career Pathways Program
Provide deeper mentoring support for students participating in a year-long career readiness and mentoring experience.
Graduate Student Career Pathways Program
Support Rutgers graduate students exploring career pathways across academia, industry, government, and nonprofit sectors.
Mentoring Can Fit Your Schedule
Whether you can offer one conversation, host a short-term experience, or support a student through a structured program, there is a meaningful way to get involved—on your schedule. Opportunities range from flexible virtual conversations to semester-based and longer-term mentoring.
Your Experience Can Open Doors
Students benefit from hearing how professionals made decisions, navigated opportunities, built networks, and learned from challenges. Your story can help a student gain confidence, explore possibilities, and take the next step with confidence.
Want to see the impact? Explore real student mentoring stories.
