Mentorship Program

AAPC has partnered with a third-party mentoring software platform, MentorCity, to provide free online mentoring matching to AAPC members. At different stages of your life, you will need advice on diverse topics, depending on your personal life, career path, and specific projects. At other times, you may be perfectly positioned to help someone else by sharing your expertise and experience. MentorCity creates a community that enables these mentoring give-and-take relationships. The website offers matches of mentees to mentors based on your selected filters of priority, including specific industry positions, job functions, geographic locations, languages, genders, and/or preferred meeting formats.

Follow the above MentorCity link to create your profile with MentorCity and start matching with potential mentors/mentees. The fastest way to create a MentorCity profile is to import your information directly from LinkedIn.

Expertise grows stale and complacent without opportunities to use it. Exercise your leadership and professionalism by sharing what you've learned with those who are still learning it. This process will help you grow more than you thought possible, and your positive influence will help shape the workforce of tomorrow.

When your mentor profile is complete with MentorCity, you may start receiving invitations to become someone's mentor.

Set yourself apart by honing your skills and receiving honest feedback from a great mentor. This process will require growth, which can be challenging, but the more positive change is made, the greater the reward.

When your mentee profile is complete with MentorCity, you can search for mentors that match criteria that are important to you, such as specialized skills/development areas, industries, job functions, languages, locations, etc. Once you find a potential match, you can invite the mentor to an initial meeting through the MentorCity platform.

Mentees take the lead in the relationship and therefore should drive the goal-setting process. Mentees also own the responsibility for the fulfillment of their goals. However, mentees will often require their mentors' guidance to understand the goals they must achieve along their journey to be successful in their ultimate objectives.

Within a specific mentoring relationship, both the mentor and mentee can add messages that both parties can see. Once you create a message, an email will be automatically sent to the other party.

The mentoring relationship page can also be used throughout your mentoring relationship to complete a mentoring agreement outlining the expectations of the relationship, post agendas, set goals, ask/respond to questions in-between meetings, record time spent, upload files, have in-person meetings or video and audio calls through Skype, take notes, review content on how to have successful mentoring relationships, or fill in a program evaluation at the end of the mentoring relationship.

At AAPC, we always welcome your feedback! If there are specific concerns with functionality of the third-party platform or dealing with a specific mentor/mentee, your issue will be resolved fastest by working through MentorCity directly at info@mentorcity.com. Please call AAPC (800-626-2633) for any issues regarding the Mentorship Program member benefit, AAPC website concerns, or if you feel the need to escalate a mentoring matter involving another AAPC member.