Get connected. Get inspired!
inspo is a new platform that connects students from every background looking for career inspiration, with professionals who want to help by sharing their experiences and knowledge, with a focus on social mobility. Our mentors want to help students by providing invaluable career advice, sharing their own experiences via our "speed mentoring" sessions, bespoke for each student.
It is quick and perfect to find out more about different organisations, industries, and jobs. For the professionals who provide their valuable mentoring, it is easy to connect and help students on their career journeys.
inspo has been developed by The Pay Index, an exciting start up providing a range of tools to help students and workers on pay and careers.
For students
- Free and easy access to our experienced and diverse set of mentors
- Personalised mentoring based on passions and professional ambitions
- Start to build your professional network
- Get advice on different industries, departments, presentation skills, CVs, interview techniques
- Potential for work experience, internships, and job opportunities
For mentors
- Inspire others to follow in your footsteps
- Help those students who need help the most
- Learn how GenZ views the world, and what is important to them
- Enhances your CV, experience, and professional reputation
- Easy and convenient to help young people via our inspo platform
- Learn new skills by mentoring
For partner organisations
- Enable all your employees to give back and encourage a ‘feel good’ factor in your organisation
- Develop employees to become inclusive leaders, and improve staff retention rate
- Identify and nurture early talent
- Empower young people from different backgrounds by preparing them for the workplace
- Raise your brand’s ESG profile with your employees and customers
“Thanks to inspo I helped a student prepare for her interviews in London. She found the mentoring reassuring as well as instructive.”
Aoife Whitford - Customer Relationship Manager
“I am one of the users from inspo and also a graduate of University of Nottingham. I would like to say that inspo is a really useful website that pinpointed my job-application needs and my mentor is always ready to help me tackle the obstacles I am facing with his years of professional experience and his genuine heart.
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Wesker - university student