The city of Seoul is recruiting ‘Seoul Run Mentors’ to help resolve the learning gap and educational blind spots of middle and high school students in Seoul. The city plans to select and hire 850 new mentors to fill the gaps of mentors who are expected to end their activities due to graduation, employment, etc., and by 2025, a total of 1,500 mentors are expected to provide seamless support for students’ learning.
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The Seoul Run Mentor Group will act as a ‘learning coach’ to help mentees using the Seoul Run platform effectively utilize learning content and study systematically. In addition, they will share the mentees’ school life, career path, and concerns about further education, and communicate and support them like ‘close brothers and sisters’.
Last year, a total of 1,181 mentors (as of 24.11.30) helped mentees with their studies, and according to the first-half satisfaction survey conducted in September, 93.4% of mentees responded that they were satisfied with mentoring.
This year, the city will form a group of mentors with excellent learning capabilities and raise the standards for mentor support qualifications to improve the quality of mentoring. In addition, in order to provide more stable mentoring, applicants who can work long-term will be given preferential treatment.
In addition, as existing Seoul Run members, we plan to actively employ applicants with learning history and mentoring experience as a central role in strengthening the virtuous learning cycle structure as a ‘virtuous cycle mentor group’ that gives back to society the help they received by giving extra points for selection.
If you are finally selected as a mentor, you will be given benefits such as activity expenses, education participation allowance, issuance of activity certificate, recommendation for mayoral commendation, selection of excellent mentors, and payment of virtuous cycle talent scholarship.
College (graduate) students who wish to participate in mentoring activities should submit an application, self-introduction, certificate of attendance and transcript, and other related documents to the relevant department (scholarships, volunteer work, employment, student support office, etc.) of their affiliated university. The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to select the final students recommended by each university through expert review by Thursday the 16th.
The final selected mentors will begin their mentoring activities in earnest after completing the required pre-training and orientation. Additional detailed information can be found on the Seoul Run website (http://slearn.seoul.go.kr).
Jeong Jin-woo, the director of the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Lifelong Education Bureau, said, “The Seoul Run Mentor Group goes beyond simple learning support and serves as a valuable partner to help mentees grow,” adding, “I hope that college students will show interest and support in this activity, where mentors and mentees can share knowledge and experiences and grow together.”
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