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What is 60-Minute Mentors?

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Don’t have internship experience and need some career advice to get started? You’re in the right place! Ed2010’s 60-Minute Mentors program has helped hundreds of recent graduates over the years. Mentors are matched up with Mentees for an hour question-and-answer session (or, if you’re outside NYC, via phone or email). And the best thing? It’s free. (Ed’s nice like that.)

Note: The mentor program is only open to those who have graduated within the last 24 months from either undergraduate or graduate programs. Due to the enormous amount of mentor requests Ed receives, he reserves the right to reject any incomplete or inadequate applications. This program is highly selective.

The mentor program is up and running! Send your completed application within the body of an e-mail (no resumes necessary) to mentors@ed2010.com

P.S. Ed is always down for helping hands who want to become mentors. Feel free to shoot him an e-mail if you’d like to mentor a young whippersnapper.

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APPLY FOR A MENTOR!

60-Minute Mentor Application

Copy and paste this application and mail it to: mentors@ed2010.com.

Today’s date:

Your name:

E-mail Address:

Year and month of graduation:

School you graduated from:

Your current location (city, state):

Note: If you live outside of New York City, your mentor meeting will have
to be via phone.

Current job and title (if unemployed or looking for first job, please
note):

Top three magazine genres you’d prefer to work in (i.e. regional,
health, teen, men’s, political, music, fashion, trade/B2B, etc.):

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Note: “Women’s interest/service magazines” include magazines such
as Glamour, Marie Claire, Self, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and all
teen, lifestyle and parenting titles; so you may want to be more specific.
“Fashion magazines” usually refers only to magazines that exclusively
cover fashion such as Women’s Wear Daily, W, and Vogue.

Top five magazines you’d most like your mentor to work at (in
order of preference):

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Specific editor you’d like to request (“John Doe at Men’s Health”):

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Note: We can’t guarantee we’ll be able to match you up with one of these
people, but we will try. Please do your research and be realistic with your
editor choices (i.e. Editors-in-chief will most likely not be available.)

Essay: Tell Ed what you want to get out of the mentoring
experience.

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Thanks! Ed will contact you within the next two-three weeks to let you
know if he can find a Mentor for you. He will then send you the contact
information for your Mentor, who will await your email or phone call
to set up a meeting. It is your responsibility to set up the meeting. If you
don’t do so within two weeks your Mentor will be assigned to someone
else on the waiting list.

Thank you. xoxo, Ed

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