Making a Meaningful Mentoring Difference with Legal Fridays

This Livestream is based on Legal Fridays, which is a tailored programme by A&L Goodbody for students in participating North East Inner City (NEIC) schools. Legal Fridays took place over three Fridays in January structured around developing communication techniques, learning from industry mentors and building employable, career-building skills all woven into a legal theme. During the session, Susan used Active Peers AI lots of times. For instance, Susan used a "manual" version of our matching algorithm to match each group whereby they were from different schools and met a different mentor.

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Features of Active Peers AI Techology

- AI Matching Algorithm
- Custom Prompter
- Feedback Tool


- We used a "manual" version of our matching algorithm. We matched each group whereby they were from different schools and met a different mentor.
- We asked each group to come up with their own questions for the group which is a manual version of the prompter.
- We asked the group to fill out the "feedback" form via the #LegalFridays hashtag on LinkedIn.


Results

"It was amazing, I really like the company’s work culture and I got to speak with a mentor. She gave good advice about choosing jobs to work in & travelling".

"I learned that you don’t have to apply to college, or get the required points in the Leaving Cert, or have a degree in law. There are several routes to getting a job in a law firm & nobody’s career path is linear. Companies like A&L value your experience, work ethic and skills over your exam results."

" I learned that you shouldn’t assume anything about industries through stereotypes because they are very likely false & research is the right way to learn about an industry. Not all lawyers attend court, work long hours, wear suits, have a degree in law ¬t all lawyers are men."

"I learned the importance of valuing your time & having a work-life balance. A&L Goodbody values the time of its employees by allowing workers to work from home on certain days."

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