Mentoring is a flexible way for someone with experience to share what they know to help someone else grow in their career or personal development. A mentor can help their mentee spot any gaps in their knowledge or experience, and support them in planning the right activities to build their skills. This can be especially useful when working towards a professional qualification.
CIHT Mentoring is open to members who are working towards professional registration with the Engineering Council UK or as a Chartered Transport Planning Professional (CTPP). If you're already registered as a CEng, IEng, EngTech or CTPP, you can use your experience to help support other members on their journey.
As a CIHT mentor, you’ll offer advice, guidance and encouragement to your mentee as they work towards becoming professionally qualified. You’ll help them understand what knowledge, skills and experience they need, and give tips on how to show this in their application and during their professional review interview.
Mentoring can be an incredibly rewarding experience and mentors can derive a great deal of satisfaction from contributing to the success of others. Mentors get to give something back to the highways and transportation sector and accelerate their own learning and development while building collaborative relationships.
CIHT Mentoring platform is designed to help you to connect with potential mentees and get the best out of a mentoring relationship.
The first step is to register on the CIHT Mentoring platform. If you are already signed into the CIHT website you will be automatically signed in, otherwise you just need to enter your CIHT username and password.
Once you have registered, the next step is to complete your profile. This information will help us to match you to mentees who are looking for your skills and experience. You should make sure you indicate the qualifications and routes that you can help with.
CIHT Mentoring has been designed to make finding, connecting and communicating with a mentor as easy as possible. The platform allows mentees to search for mentors who would be the best match for them in terms of the professional qualifications and experience they are looking for.
Mentors can choose to accept or decline requests from mentees and can switch their availability for mentoring on and off.
CIHT mentoring has an inbuilt meeting tool that allows you to arrange meetings, set agendas, record meeting notes, and action points and a video chat tool to enable you to conduct virtual meetings from within the platform.
NOTE: The platform will be launched to mentees in June 2025 so you shouldn't receive any mentoring requests through the platform before then
CIHT Mentoring is packed with videos, guides, and checklists to guide you through your mentoring journey. We also provide you with guidance notes to support you as a mentor for the specific professional qualifications you hold:
Professional Qualifications (CEng, IEng, EngTech) Mentoring Guide
Professional Qualifications (CTPP) Mentoring Guide
As a mentor you can also complete the CIHT Learn - Introduction to Mentoring course
For further information and advice, please contact the CIHT Education Team via e-mail: education@ciht.org.uk
