Recognizing the importance of skills and goals in creating successful mentorship matches, we've improved our approach. Now, we're separating personal identity details from development goals in our questionnaires, making the matching process more straightforward and effective.

Separating Identity from Development

• Identity Fields: This includes details like Office Location, Seniority, Department, and other demographic data. Such information is crucial for understanding the organizational context and background of each participant but does not directly influence personal development goals. For this field type, admins can indicate the match strength.
• Personal Development Fields: These are the questions focused on skills, career aspirations, and personal growth objectives. By asking these questions specifically and separately, we ensure a clear understanding of what each participant seeks to achieve or offer in the mentorship program. For this field type, users can set their own match strength.

As an admin, you can create these fields under Program Settings > Questions & Algorithm by clicking the Add button located at the top right-hand side of the page: 

Here, you can select one of the two options for creating a question; Browse question templates or Create a question from scratch.

On the Browse question templates page, you'll see a list of templated questions that you can use as a starting point for your questionnaire. 

Identity Information questions are used to match users based on certain traits like Department, Seniority Level, Language, etc.

Personal Development questions are used to match users based on development needs and can be phrased differently depending on the role the user is participating in the program as.

Have more questions? Submit a request here and let us know how we can help!