Developing Professional Skills through Mentorship Program for EFL Students in Indonesia

Professional skills must be developed among university students to provide them with opportunities to compete in the real world. This study aims to investigate how professional skill development can be done to English and Literature Department students through mentorship program. Twenty-four students were involved in four different fields such as Digital Literature, News Casting/News Reporting, Prose Writing, and Digital Teaching Media. The research began with collecting students’ needs. Communicating with lecturers of relevant subjects, the twenty-four students were selected. Then, four mentors were chosen and assigned. Next, a technical meeting was done before the students joined a group. After that, the mentoring sessions were held for five 100-minute meetings in the following scenario: (1) brainstorming and idea filtering, (2) outlining or planning the product, (3) product drafting, (4) product reviewing and revising, and (5) finishing. All group activities were closely monitored. One best student of each group was selected by the mentor. In the last stage, an evaluation of the program was done.