Engage in Mentoring

Welcome to FPA Mentor Match! As your professional home committed to your professional development, FPA offers you a way to build community with other professionals navigating similar challenges as you.

FPA Mentor Match is a unique online networking and career development tool that can help you find and connect with other professionals with whom you can share your experiences. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re in the same city—it doesn’t even matter if you’re on the same continent—what matters is you find somebody who you click with who can make your journey into and through the profession smoother. 

Apply to the FPA Mentor Match program in four simple steps:

(1) START

Complete your FPA Connect profile. Make sure your contact information is up to date, add a recent professional profile picture, expand on your bio and import your education and job history information from LinkedIn. Having a complete and accurate profile is crucial to the success of selection and matching. Profile complete? Return back to this page and move on to step 2. 

(2) ENROLL

Are you looking to be a mentor or mentee? Perhaps both? Sign up for one (or both) here:

  •   Enroll as a Mentor
  •   Enroll as a Mentee


Make selections for each of the program demographics to set your preferences. Demographics include: topics, venue, specialties, career stage and start/end date. Please note that some fields are required for enrollment. The more information you provide, the easier it will be to make the best match. Keep in mind that to request a mentor or mentee, you must be enrolled in the program.

(3) SEARCH

Use the Mentor Program Directory to input your search criteria. Start by selecting the topic(s) of interest which include: 

  •   Career State
  •   Areas of Expertise

You can also take advantage of features to help you find and recruit matches: 

  •   Track your mentoring relationships
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Participate in discussion forums on mentoring topics
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Search for helpful mentoring resources 


(4)CONNECT

Congratulations! You've completed steps 1-3 and are all set and ready for the fun stuff. Let the mentoring begin.

Now you can find your match through one search—or multiple searches. If you’re not sure of the search criteria, select “Search for ALL of the selected values,” and the Mentor Program Directory will do the work for you. 


Next, when you find matches, click on the member’s name that you’re interested in establishing a mentor/mentee connection with to go to their profile page. Look around and if you think it might be a good match, look under their profile image for the Mentor Match badge, then click on it to request a connection. If you don’t think it’s a good match, you can simply select the back button to return to your previous search results and try again.

Also, check out our Mentor Match FAQs in case you have questions that weren't answered on this page.  Happy mentoring!