Alumni Mentorship Program (AMP)

Mission

Connect Alumni and Students

The Alumni Mentorship Program (AMP) connects mentors (Alumni of IIT Roorkee) to mentees (students of IIT Roorkee) and is for the benefit of the students of IIT Roorkee. The mentors are alumni of IIT Roorkee, bringing their rich and varied life experiences.

Goals of Mentoring

Create a confidential environment to reflect, discuss, and help the students grow.
Focus on student's long term growth, both in their careers and as human beings.
Provide infrastructure to facilitate matching, communication, and evaluation.

Benefits to Students

One of the most important things students have to learn for career advancement is networking. Simply put networking is connecting with other people and having a pool of advisors/friends who you help, and in turn rely on help when needed. Networking is immensely useful when looking for a job, making a life decision or just looking for direction. There are many ways to network including LinkedIn, alumni meets and so on. AMP provides a platform to network closely with alumni who have been through the journey and are willing to help students.

Activities

1:1 mentoring. Mentors and mentees meet once every two weeks to discuss career growth, job search, skill development and any other topics that are helpful to the mentee.
Talks. Talks are organized on topical issues like job search in covid times, emotional quotient etc. These talks are of general interest.
Special Interest Groups. These are smaller group discussions about specific topics like careers in Entrepreneurship, Finance, Product Management, Academia or others.
Ask a mentor: https://iitramp.quora.com/

1:1 Mentoring

Awesome pool of dedicated mentors

- more than 200 mentors
- from diverse fields like engineering, academia, management, civil service, finance, and entrepreneurship
- very accomplished individuals (CEOs, IAS officers, Niti Aayog, Vice Presidents, Professors and so on).
- Mentors from batches 1966 - 2019

To sign up as a mentor see this section.

300 students, almost everyone has been matched to a mentor

Logistics

The mentoring is organized in batches, each lasting about six months. We first round of mentoring was organized in July - Dec 2020.

Students fill up an application form indicating their long and short-term goals, and optionally, a preferred mentor.
Some mentors are listed on Mentors Web Page, with their areas of interest, a brief statement about their work and their strengths.
Mentees reach out to mentors to see if they are available.
Mentors may accept or reject.
Mentoring relationship duration is flexible depending on the needs of the student. Some mentorships are multi-year, and some last a few meetings.

Students

Mentees can search for mentors on the mentorship platform. Once a student is connected to mentor, they will mutually decide a time to connect over voice, video conference or in person.

Students can signup directly using the login link above.

Testimonials from First Batch

We are indebted to all our wonderful alumni who contribute to the AMP and help our students. - Prof. Ajit Chaturvedi, Director IITR

I am benefiting a lot from the Alumni Mentorship Program (AMP) and wanted to show my immense appreciation and gratitude. I have been lucky to be allocated Mr. Sushil Prakash as my mentor and meetings with him have been very insightful and a great learning experience. The discussions are not only helping me in contemplating my dreams and passion but also in paving a path to achieve them. - Pallavi Kaushik, Ph.D. student in Computer Science

The Alumni Mentorship Program (AMP) is bringing many improvements in me. I feel fortunate to have Mr. Ram Goel as my mentor. Meeting him has made my journey as a civil engineering student a more insightful and interesting one. It feels great to have someone with such talent and vast experience guide me through, which wouldn't have been possible without AMP. - PT Reddy, B. Tech Civil Engineering

More testimonials here.