EXTERNES MENTORING^plus: this title stands for a mentoring programme coordinated by the Career Service at TU Berlin and implemented in cooperation with the Alumni Program of TU Berlin [2].

The relationship between mentor and mentee lies at the heart of every mentoring programme. A mentor is defined as a person "in the middle of his/her (working) life" who provides individual career guidance and life coaching for a younger person. Most of our mentors are experts and executives [3] who actually studied at TU Berlin.

The relationship between mentor and mentee is for a limited period of time and is often described as a "tandem." The EXTERNES MENTORING^plus scheme is accompanied by a qualification programme [4].