To find a mentor on Wite Collar, download the app, answer a few questions about your career or business goals, and choose from the vetted mentors the app recommends. You watch a mentor's intro video first, send a connection request, then book a one-hour video session from their schedule.
Most people who want a mentor do not have one. In a 2019 Olivet Nazarene University survey of 3,000 workers, 76% said mentors are important and only 37% had one (reported by HR Dive). The usual advice, "ask someone you already know", only works if you already know the right person. Wite Collar exists for everyone else.
Who Wite Collar mentors are for
Wite Collar is for adult learners and working professionals in any field. It fits best when nobody in your own circle has done what you are trying to do:
- Career changers who need someone already working in the field they are moving into.
- First-generation professionals whose family and friends cannot make the introduction.
- New business owners who want to learn from someone who has already run one.
- People building a skill, from software to sales, who learn faster one on one.
Ways to find a mentor, compared
A mentorship app is one of four common ways to find a mentor. Each works for a different situation.
| Way to find a mentor | What you need first | Best when |
|---|
| Your own network | Someone you already know in the field | You already work near the people you want to learn from |
| An employer mentoring program | An employer that runs one | You want to grow inside your current company |
| Free volunteer programs such as SCORE | A U.S. small business or a plan for one | You are starting or running a small business |
| A mentorship app such as Wite Collar | A phone | You have no contact in the field and want to choose your own mentor |
For the full walkthrough of every route, read how to find a mentor when you don't have a network. For how to pick between mentors once you have options, read the importance of choice.
What you get with a Wite Collar mentor
A Wite Collar mentor is someone you chose, after seeing who they are, for a set hour on your calendar. In practice that means four things:
- A match based on you. Recommendations use your location, your career or business interests and your learning style.
- A look before you commit. Every mentor has an intro video and endorsements from mentees.
- One-hour video sessions inside the app, booked from the mentor's open times.
- Chat between sessions for quick questions and files.
"It puts the power in the mentee's hands. They select the mentors, we provide the options."
Kira Parris-Moore, co-founder of Wite Collar, who trained as a therapist and built the app after struggling to find her own licensing supervisor. Read the story.