About

If you're a psychology, health sciences, public health or health promotion professional interested in helping Deakin students to enhance their employability, we'd love to hear from you.

Deakin's Health Career Mentoring is a four-month program that matches motivated, final-year undergraduate Faculty of Health students enrolled in non-clinical courses with experienced industry mentors, to help them gain insight and enhance their graduate employability.

Benefits

By mentoring a Deakin student, you can:

• share your experience and expertise
• develop your leadership skills
• have a positive impact on a student's journey
• help students develop their industry acumen and employability skills
• help create a pipeline of students into your industry/organisation to ensure long-term workforce sustainability.

Mentor testimonials

"Through the sharing of personal experience, two-way reflection guidance, the Health Career Mentoring Program was an opportunity to positively influence a student embarking on their professional journey."

"This program was a fantastic way to support new graduates in my field. I gained a lot from the discussions with my mentee as I was able to reflect on my career journey, experienced and learnings and shared these with someone who could benefit from what I could share. I also felt very honoured to be able to support my mentee to apply, prepare for and successfully gain employment in a role that was directly relevant to her interest areas, skill set and new qualification. I think the mentoring program did a fantastic job at pairing us together and providing the opportunity, space and support for a strong mentoring relationship to occur. We will continue to stay in touch as I'm very keen to follow her career journey in her new role and am confident we will continue to cross paths in future in our careers."

"The program was a wonderful opportunity to share experiences and aspirations. It was a great privilege to provide guidance and support for others."

Eligibility

To be eligible, you will have:

• A minimum of three years’ experience in the Health Sciences, Public Health, Health Promotion or Psychology related fields
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• A genuine interest in helping to further the student’s career confidence and job-readiness skills
• A commitment to the mentoring process for the duration of the program
• Preparedness to maintain confidentiality regarding discussions with mentee
• A valid Working With Children Check for volunteers or employees

To help us match you with a suitable final year undergraduate health student, we'll need a brief work history and your areas of expertise and/or experience.

Your commitment

To participate in the program you would be committing to:

• attending an in-person opening event (approximately three hours including lunch)
• attending approximately five meetings (virtual or in-person) with your mentee during the program. The timing and frequency of these meetings are negotiable between mentor and mentee

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2026 key dates

Mentor applications open	Monday 18 May 2026
Mentor applications close	Sunday 14 June 2026
Confirmation of matches and program details	Week starting Monday 22 June 2026
Opening event (in-person)	Tuesday 14 July 2026
Program conclusion	Tuesday 10 November 2026