Describe your mentorship program and matching process. Makeform creates a mentee questionnaire for goals, background, preferences, availability, and expectations.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Employees joining an internal mentorship program
Format
Matching questionnaire with ranked development goals
Prompt size
287 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Matching questionnaire with ranked development goals
Role, department, and career stage
Rank your top development goals
Which skills do you want to build?
Meeting rhythm and time zone
What would make this match successful?
Suggested matching tags
Career growth
Skills practice
Network building
Ranked priorities and practical preferences are easier to match than an open biography alone.
Step 1
Invite
send one clear questionnaire before matching
Step 2
Understand
capture goals, context, and expectations
Step 3
Match
compare priorities, expertise, and schedules
Step 4
Prepare
give each pair a useful starting brief
Better matching inputs
Combine personal context with comparable choices for goals, mentor experience, meeting rhythm, and boundaries.
Rank program-relevant goals, then add a short explanation for comparable signals with personal context.
Capture desired expertise, communication style, relevant experience, and why each important preference would help.
Use selectable days, time windows, time zones, meeting formats, and cadence to prevent calendar conflicts.
Program-ready variations
Keep core matching signals, then tailor wording and support questions.
Role context, growth goals, desired skills, mobility interests, and reporting boundaries.
Study area, career curiosity, industry interests, first-job questions, and term-based availability.
Plain-language interests, strengths, support preferences, comfort needs, and contact fields.
Business stage, current constraints, specialist experience sought, conflicts to avoid, and a near-term outcome.
Questionnaire workflow
Collect comparable answers and prepare each pair without making mentees repeat their story.
Provide the audience, program length, mentor pool, matching priorities, and information coordinators use.
Explain preference questions, make nonessential fields optional, offer prefer not to answer, and remove unused data.
Share the link and deadline, then route submissions to the program inbox or Slack.
Filter by goals, expertise, time zone, and availability. Confirm the match, then share useful introduction context.
Matching input options
Structured preferences make a cohort easier to review than biographies alone.
Field guide
Use six sections to understand participants, support matching, and prepare each pair.
Background
Collect the current role, study area, career stage, and relevant experience. Coordinators need context for goals, not a complete history.
Goals
Ask what the mentee hopes to change, learn, or decide. Ranked choices support review; an explanation defines personal progress.
Mentor fit
Identify useful mentor knowledge, perspective, or experience without promising every preference. Separate essential from helpful qualities.
Working relationship
Clarify how the mentee learns and contributes. Preparation, feedback, initiative, and boundary questions establish shared expectations.
Logistics
Structure practical constraints: time windows, time zone, format, cadence, language, and accessibility needs determine whether pairs can meet reliably.
Program expectations
Summarize matching, time commitment, communication, and support. Request acknowledgment and leave space for missed context.
Related tools
Connect intake with applications, scheduling, goal setting, development, and feedback.
Collect applications and eligibility information before participants enter the matching pool.
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Open toolTurn broad development interests into specific goals, actions, and reflection prompts.
Open toolExplore professional direction, strengths, development areas, and next steps.
Open toolCollect session topics and schedule a practical time after a match is made.
Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for coordinators preparing participants and matching mentor–mentee pairs.
A mentee questionnaire is a pre-match form covering background, goals, challenges, preferred mentor experience, communication style, schedule, and expectations. Coordinators compare these signals across the cohort.
Ask about goals, relevant experience, skills or topics to explore, helpful mentor qualities, feedback style, availability, accessibility needs, and their definition of a successful relationship.
Tie every question to matching, preparation, or support. Six short sections with structured choices and a few explanations are often easier to complete and review. Test the form with the intended audience.
Explain how answers support matching, offer relevant options and a write-in field, separate essential from optional preferences, and include prefer not to answer where appropriate. Explain how preferences are considered without promising a match.
Yes. Ranked goals, desired expertise, communication preferences, time zones, availability, and format create useful filters. Coordinators should review complete responses and confirm fit through their program process.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and reuse your questionnaire without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Keep goals, mentor fit, working style, logistics, and expectations, then tailor background choices. Students may need study fields, employees need role context, and founders need stage and conflict questions.
Responses arrive in Makeform and can flow to Google Sheets or connected workflows. Use structured fields for filters, manage access under your program's practices, and share only useful introduction context.
Start every match with useful context.
