Company and exploration, lighting the way to a career
A diverse group of mentors from across departments offers career counselling and organises career guidance activities, helping students discover their strengths, widen their horizons, and build the skills to step into the workplace.
NCU's career mentor system helps each department plan career guidance around its own strengths, linking teaching goals, career development and the talent industry needs. Mentors' core work covers career counselling, planning career guidance activities and supporting internships, with around 150 consultations a year on average. Working with the Career Development Center, mentors arrange talks, company visits, assessments, résumé reviews and mock interviews — close to a hundred events a year, drawing more than 2,000 attendances. Through conversation between teachers and students and contact with industry, young people set learning goals and find fresh motivation to learn.
2 mentors
Associate Professor · Department of Chinese Literature
Work at your life, hold on to what you long for, and go forward.Mentoring reflection
Associate Professor · Department of Electrical Engineering
In the age of AI, break new ground; go deep in what you study and chase the dream.Mentoring reflection
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I came to see that a career has no standard template, and that changing direction is also a kind of courage.
I learned how local stories can be carried into new forms, and it opened up what I imagine film and television can be.
Learning about rights in non-standard employment gave me more courage to face the challenges of the workplace.
Thank you for organising these cross-disciplinary exchanges — studying far from home, they gave me a clearer sense of direction.
A senior student's account of a summer internship abroad really got me excited.
The study-abroad exchange let me trade information with senior students, which helped a great deal.
One-to-one counselling eased my anxiety and helped me see where I'm heading.
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