Career mentors
A mentor is somebody a few years further along who will read your work, answer the questions you cannot ask your manager, and tell you when an offer is worse than it looks. ClearHire is building that, one match at a time, from people whose employment records companies have actually confirmed.
Mentorship is not open yet
There is no list of mentors on this page, and there is not one anywhere else either — because we have not matched anybody yet and printing names we do not have would be the easiest lie in this product to tell. What exists today is the register below, on both sides. When there are enough people on each side of it in the same field, we open matching there first and email the people who registered for it, in the order they registered.
What it will be, when it opens
Small, slow and specific. Three of these are deliberate limits rather than a first version we intend to grow out of.
One at a time
One mentor, one mentee
Not a group, not a queue of five people asking the same person the same question. A mentor takes one mentee at a time and can say no to the next one without explaining themselves.
A fixed length
Three months, then it ends
With an obvious way to say yes to another three. An arrangement with no end date is one neither person can leave politely, and that is how most of them actually die.
In writing first
Messages, then calls if you both want
It starts in ClearHire messages, where there is a record and a block button. Swapping numbers or booking a call is a decision the two of you make, not the default the product sets.
Matching will be done by a person reading both registrations, not by a score. There will be no ranking of mentors, no ratings, and no public list of who mentored whom — a mentee should be able to ask an embarrassing question without it becoming part of anyone's record.
Register your interest
Two lists, and you can be on both. Nothing is published, nobody is contacted on your behalf, and you can take yourself off in one click.
Sign in to put your name down
The register is tied to an account, because a match needs somebody to reach. Everything above is readable without one.
Sign inRegistrations are read by a person, in the order they arrive. There is no number on this page telling you how many are ahead of you, because we would rather not turn a queue into a scoreboard.
What a mentor will be asked for
All of it, in advance, including the parts that are inconvenient.
Asked for
- Roughly an hour a month, for three months, in whatever shape suits you both.
- A reply within a week, or a line saying you cannot this week. Silence is the thing that makes a mentee stop asking.
- One confirmed employment record, so a mentee knows the experience you are drawing on is real. Your current employer is enough.
- Telling us when it is not working, early, so we can end it cleanly rather than let it fade.
Never asked for
- A referral, an introduction at your company, or anything that touches your employer's hiring.
- Reviewing a mentee's work outside the arrangement, or being on call.
- Your phone number, your personal email, or a meeting outside ClearHire — unless you decide to, which is yours to decide.
- A public review afterwards. Mentors are not rated here and never will be.
Either side can end an arrangement at any point, without a reason, and nothing about it appears on either person's profile. A mentor who stops replying is quietly taken off the list rather than chased.
What helps today
Most of what people want a mentor for is one of three things, and all three work now.
Ask the question
The forums
A specific question, answered by people who have been through it. Slower than a mentor and considerably faster than waiting for one — and a reply marked as the answer stays there for the next person with the same problem.
Two things worth saying plainly
Does a ClearHire mentor cost anything?
No. Mentors are not paid and mentees are not charged, and there is no plan that buys a mentor. Paying for the match would change who volunteers and who gets one, and that is not a trade worth making.
ClearHire has paid plans and this is not one of the things they are for. What the plans do include
Will my employer be told that I asked for a mentor?
No. Registering interest is private. Your current employer is never told, it does not appear on your public profile, and a company that has confirmed a role for you cannot see it either.
The one thing a matched mentor eventually sees is what you wrote in the form above, and only after you have both agreed to the match. What we store