Research Plan 8 : Mentor Intake Interviews
This research needs to be conducted and completed in the first week of the mentorship program.
- Research Year: TBD (The team decided not to conduct the mentor intake interviews in 2022 due to the compressed timeframe of this project and limited resources)
- Participant Type: Mentor
- Participant Type Abbreviation: M
- For more naming convention info, please see issue #347 and the naming convention sheet
- Interview Type: Intake
- Wiki page: Mentor Research Overview
- Roadmap document: TWE22: Research Roadmap: Mentor
- What are the mentors seeking to gain/understand from participating in this program?
- Who signed-up as potential mentors in this program? What do their profiles/personas look like?
- What are the mentorship styles and patterns of participating mentors?
- What are their mentorship goals? What is their confidence and preparedenes in achieving these goals?
- How are mentors impacted by the recruitment process and post recruitment phase?
The goal of this Mentor Intake Interviews is to emulate the Intern Intake Interviews and is to be conducted during the initial days of the mentorship program.
The goal is to collect more background on the mentors on the following:
- Motivation
- Expectations
- Who mentored them
- How they find mentors
- Mentorship style preference
- Confidence
- Preparedness
- How they work on their LinkedIn (when I need a job, all the time, etc.)
- Mentors
Interviews to be conducted over Zoom that include a range of qualitative and quantitative questions. To be video recorded and transcribed, as well as recorded in a Google Sheets questionnaire.
- The mentorship program research team has decided not to do an intake interview during their initial meetings for the year 2022.
- Due to the compressed timeframe of this project and limited resources, the mentorship research team has decided to use only the following methods as part of their methodology in 2022: Intake surveys at the beginning, then deploying post-onboarding & weekly surveys, Exit surveys and finally end with the exit interviews.
- This will ensure increased and maximum efficiency for the Mentorship Research Program and will keep up with the compressed timeframe of this project.
- The goal in the upcoming years, however, is to include these Mentor Intake Surveys as a vital part of this Mentor Research Program’s Methodology.
- Label: Feature: RP008
- Research Plan
- Interview Script (range of qualitative and quantitative questions)
- Review and finalize Interview Script with UXR Lead and PM
- Transfer Interview Script to Google Sheets questionnaire
- Data collection
- Schedule one-on-one user interviews with mentors
- Obtain Informed Consent (send consent form prior to interview, while scheduling)
- Conduct interviews (to be conducted during the first week of the mentorship program and immediately post mentor onboarding)
- Data Analysis
- Data Presentation
- There is no Research Plan
- Initial Planning for Research Plan 8 is documented in the TWE'22 Mentor Research Roadmap document, Page 8-9:
- TWE22: Research Roadmap: Mentor
- Overview
- Program Details (apply here)
- Requirements
- Who are the Interns
- Benefits of being a mentor
- Dates
- Time Expectations
- Research Plans and Goals
(People making the internship program happen)
- Overview
- Join the Team
- Meet the Team
- Resources for Volunteers
- Cohort 2021 (First cohort)
- Cohort 2022 (second cohort)