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Start with your needs
Share your career interests, existing experience and the questions you want to explore.
HOW ATHENIA WORKSA personal starting point.
A personal starting point.
A clear way forward.
Start with what you want to explore or change. Find a relevant alumni mentor, agree six or eight conversations and build a plan around your needs.
Suggested questions and AI-assisted guides make preparation manageable. Your mentor reviews and edits the plan; you agree practical actions together.
INSIDE ATHENIA A personal plan. Shared progress.
Your mentoring workspaceConversation 2 of 6
YOUR ALUMNI MENTORSarah Williams Consulting · Singapore
MatchedPurpose2 · AbilityFuture of the fieldConnectionsEnvironmentNext steps
ABILITY · YOUR NEXT CONVERSATION
What skills do you already bring?
Explore your experience so far and the skills your target roles need.
Questions to ask your mentor
- Which skills matter most in consulting?
- Where could my university experience be useful?
- What could I practise next?
PPurposeAAbilityCConnectionsEEnvironment
OPTIONAL GUIDED PROJECTAPAC Market Entry Analysis8 hours · Public information · Mentor feedback
THE MENTORING JOURNEY
Match. Meet. Move forward.
A clear route from your starting needs to an agreed relationship and useful next steps.
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Find the right alumni mentor
Explore your university’s mentors by sector, country and experience. Propose six or eight conversations and agree the commitment together.
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Talk, act and reflect
Prepare with suggested questions, agree useful actions and build on what you learn. Your mentor adapts the plan as you progress.
THE PACE APPROACHFour lenses.
Four lenses.
Your own direction.
Explore what matters, what you can do, who can help and where you might fit. Choose the areas you want to focus on with your mentor.
Purpose
Direction & meaning
What matters to me, and why do I want this career?
Ability
Skills & capabilities
What can I do, and how can I develop and apply it?
Connections
Relationships & support
Who can help me learn, develop and access opportunities?
Environment
Context & opportunities
Where do my strengths and experience fit in the market?
Explore the career theory behind PACE
PACE adapts the intelligent career framework, rooted in DeFillippi and Arthur’s (1994) work, developed by Arthur, Claman and DeFillippi (1995), and subsequently elaborated by Parker, Khapova and Arthur (2009).
Purpose reflects “knowing why” (motivation and identity), Ability reflects “knowing how” (skills and knowledge), and Connections reflects “knowing whom” (professional relationships and networks).
Athenia adds Environment — “knowing where” — to explore how interests, skills and experience fit different sectors, organisations, countries and working environments.
SIX OR EIGHT CONVERSATIONS
A plan you can make your own.
Begin with these six themes. Suggested questions and optional short activities help you prepare; your mentor can edit the guides for your goals and experience.
Purpose
Explore what matters to you, the choices you are considering and what you want from mentoring. Agree what would make the programme useful.
Ability
Discuss skills and experience developed at university and elsewhere. Compare them with a role or direction that interests you and identify what to develop next.
Future of the Field
Discuss how AI and other changes are reshaping the profession. The mentor supplies practical judgement; agree capabilities and actions worth exploring.
Connections
Learn from your mentor’s experience and identify other people and networks that could help. Plan a manageable way to start or strengthen a professional relationship.
Environment
Explore how your interests and abilities fit different roles, sectors, organisations and countries. Discuss the context of the markets that matter to you.
Action and review
Review what became clearer and which actions helped. Agree next steps, which may include a focused project. Eight-conversation programmes allow further practice, feedback and emerging questions.
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Six conversations
Purpose, Ability, Future of the Field, Connections, Environment and Next Steps.
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Eight conversations
The same six themes, plus time to practise, receive feedback and explore questions that emerge.
You propose the length when requesting a mentor. Agree the plan and commitment together at the start.
FOR UNIVERSITIES
Build a programme around your priorities.
Tell us who you want to support and what you want to achieve. We’ll review your priorities and develop a personalised proposal for your university.
A personalised proposal. No commitment to purchase.