Welcome to the Women's TechConnect Mentoring Program
Professional Assessment

Whatever your dreams may be, it’s important to start by assessing where you stand today. Knowing your current strengths and areas for improvement will help you identify the steps you need to take to achieve your goals.

For the Women’s TechConnect Mentoring Program, we’ve created the following brief professional skills self-assessment. You can use the survey to get to know yourself a bit better. At the end, you can also specify other development areas that may not have be addressed in our standard list. Each quarter during the mentoring program we will conduct follow-up surveys which you can use to help you assess your progress towards your goals. Learning is a lifelong experience, so we invite both mentors and protégées to take advantage of this professional self-assessment survey.

Within 24 hours of completing the survey, we will email you a summary of the answers you submitted. We encourage you to share your assessment with your match, however that decision is entirely up to you. All individual responses will be kept confidential by NetHope.

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* 1. Given Name

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* 2. Family Name or Surname

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* 3. Email Address:

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* 4. I am CURRENTLY a:

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* 5. My hope is that participating in the Women's TechConnect Mentoring Program will help me MOST improve in the following two areas? (Pick 2)

 
Professional Development Area 1
Professional Development Area 2

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* 6. I currently have a full time job in IT (Please select "No" if you are doing an Internship)

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* 7. I'm currently an intern

Career Planning

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* 8. I have identified a clear set of professional goals that I would like to achieve in the next 1- 3 years

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* 9. I have identified a clear set of professional goals that I would like to achieve in the next 3-5 years.

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* 10. I have identified a clear set of professional goals that I would like to achieve long term (5+ years).

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* 11. I have a written, professional development plan for myself that includes specific, measurable, achievable, realistic goals with dates assigned.

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* 12. I know what a good professional development plan should include.

Effective Communications

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* 13. I can craft an effective email about a simple work assignment.

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* 14. I can craft an effective email about a complex work assignment.

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* 15. I provide precise oral responses to questions from my boss.

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* 16. I can conduct a challenging conversation with a co-worker.

Leadership & Teaming

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* 17. I can facilitate a meeting among my peers effectively.

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* 18. I can facilitate a meeting among my manager and/or executive team effectively.

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* 19. I consistently prioritize the most important tasks of those assigned to me and meet agreed upon deadlines.

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* 20. I work well with my colleagues.

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* 21. When a difficult situation arises, I can bring it to resolution with confidence and efficiency.

Networking

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* 22. I have a professional network.

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* 23. My professional network mostly includes individuals from my current company/school.

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* 24. My professional network includes a significant number of contacts from outside my current company/school.

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* 25. If I set my mind to it, I feel l could expand my professional network to 25 new relevant contacts in 3 months time.

Work/Life Balance

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* 26. Today, I would rate myself in the following way when it comes to work/life balance.

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* 27. I have a good understanding of several techniques a person can use to improve their work/life balance.

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* 28. I feel confident that if necessary, I could persuade my manager to support my work/life balance goals.

Additional Development Areas

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* 29. Use this space to describe any additional improvement areas that you want work on with support from your mentor during the remainder of the program. (Optional)

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