Open Your Door.
Change Someone's Path.
You know something someone needs to hear. List yourself, stay in control, show up when you want to.
One thing before you start: this is not a CV. Write it the way you'd describe yourself to a friend. The profiles that get requests are the ones that sound like a person, not a company page.
What being a mentor on Sip involves
The questions people ask before they list themselves.
How much time does mentoring on Sip take?
As little as twenty minutes. Most sips are a single short conversation rather than an ongoing commitment, and you decide when you are open. There is no minimum, no weekly obligation, and no penalty for closing your door for a while.
Do I need to be senior to be a mentor?
No. The most useful mentor is usually someone two or three years ahead of the person asking, not twenty. If you have already done the thing a student is trying to do — landed the internship, switched fields, got into the programme — you know something they need.
Who will contact me, and can I decline?
Students and early-career people send a short request explaining what they are stuck on. You see it before you commit to anything, and you accept or decline in one click. Declining costs you nothing and is never shown publicly.
Is being a mentor on Sip free?
Yes. Listing yourself is free, and mentors are neither charged nor paid. Sip exists to remove the cold-outreach step, not to run a marketplace.
Do I have to share my personal contact details?
No. Your account email is never shown to seekers. You choose whether to share a booking link or a separate contact email, and it is only released to a seeker after you accept their request.
What should my profile actually look like?
Not a CV. The profiles that get requests read like a person: a bio in your own voice, tags that admit you are booked most weeks or that you dropped out once, a work history in one-liners rather than paragraphs. Seekers are scanning a page of job titles that all look the same — the thing that makes them pick you is usually not the job title. Write it the way you would describe yourself to a friend, not the way you would write a LinkedIn headline.
What do I actually talk about?
You pick the topics you are willing to cover when you sign up, and requests are matched against them. Most conversations are about how you got where you are, what you would do differently, and what the person asking should do next.