Insights from Valuable Mentorship تجربة الإرشاد المجاني

My Experience with Free Mentorship

This past week really took a toll on me, both mentally and physically. After all the calls, I found myself sleeping for two days straight, completely exhausted and unable to reflect on everything that happened. 😅

But I really want to share my experience and capture each meeting, not just with dry facts. So, over the next week, I’ll share my insights from each session.

Let’s talk about my meeting with the mentor!

I managed to schedule this call only on my fourth attempt! Initially, I tried using ADPList. The first mentor didn’t accept my request, the second one simply didn’t show up, and the third canceled just a few hours before our call.

Feeling frustrated with that platform, I switched to another one where everything clicked right away. However, this mentor also played a trick on me—he moved our call to 8 AM!

He turned out to be a really pleasant German guy (he joined the call just a minute before we started! 😁) with a significant background in marketing and his own creative agency. Honestly, I expected him to come a bit more prepared, at least to glance over my resume and portfolio, but oh well!

After listening to me, he gave me one crucial piece of advice: I need to do more internal research and be ready to answer the question of what kind of creative professional I am. In his experience, many people struggle with this—they don’t really understand who they are, what skills they possess, and what exactly they want to do.

Also, upon finding out about my travels and my time living in Abu Dhabi and Armenia, he told me to definitely include that in my sales pitch. He remarked that it’s impressive! He pointed out that for someone like him, who’s lived in Italy and France, that’s not as interesting. Little did he know how many of us have lived in Armenia! But I got his point; for them, it is indeed unusual.

I asked him about tricky interview questions, and he admitted he doesn’t like them and doesn’t ask them. He believes in being as honest and open as possible, wanting to understand early on whether you truly fit together, rather than "selling" each other the best versions of yourselves during the interview, only to clash later in real life.

Interestingly, my husband shares a similar impression about interviews in European culture; they feel less “intense” compared to our own.

Overall, the meeting was immensely beneficial, as it helped me warm up before two more important calls I had in the following days.