With the professional mentoring programme ‘Elevate your Career’, HAGER Executive Consulting, together with the association Afro Deutsches Akademiker Netzwerk (ADAN), wants to make a contribution to talent development and thus to social diversity.
Making diversity visible
Since 2014, the Afro-German Academics Network (ADAN e.V.) has been committed to the interests of Afro-Germans and Africans. With a focus on personal career development, the representation of black people in Germany and a differentiated image of the African continent.
Together with the work of the organisation, the establishment of a network and numerous projects, ADAN contributes to the reduction of structural discrimination. With the vision of diversity in all areas of life: socially, politically and economically.
Together with ADAN, HAGER Executive Consulting has also set itself the goal of making diversity more visible in society. To support members of the Afro-German Academic Network on their individual career paths and to promote talent.
‘At HAGER, we firmly believe that everyone has special talents,’ says Ralf Hager, Managing Director of HAGER Executive Consulting GmbH, explaining his company’s motivation.
‘These talents can develop enormous potential if they are recognised and properly supported.’
The ‘Elevate your Career’ mentoring programme launched by HAGER together with ADAN consists of two blocks. In June 2022, participants were taught the basics of career management in online workshops by consultants from HAGER Executive Consulting. The four Zoom meetings provided best practice knowledge on the topics of finding a career, CVs, job interviews and salary negotiations. The second block of the programme consists of individual coaching sessions. Experienced mentors accompany eleven professionals over a period of three months. The coaching comprises three one-hour meetings in which the mentors answer the mentees’ individual questions. They support you with personalised advice and valuable knowledge transfer.
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‘Initiatives like Elevate your Career are necessary to promote the social mobility of our community,’ explains Jonas Tesfai, project coordinator and founding member of ADAN e.V.
While HAGER provides the technical input with its know-how and experts, ADAN takes care of the marketing, matching and coordination of the individual coaching sessions.
‘With the current round of the programme, we want to create a foundation together with ADAN,’ says Ralf Hager, describing the planning. ’As a pilot event, it is intended to provide us with insights and data on the basis of which we will further develop ‘Elevate your Career’. We want to establish this as a regular programme. Our aim is to organise workshops and coaching sessions twice a year. Students, professionals, trainees and academics interested in Africa will be supported in their individual career paths. “
