Korea Foundation for Women i n Science, Engineering and Technology

To help female university students (or graduates) in STEM become better job candidates and help them choose a career, this program provides various mentoring activity opportunities to help them explore possible careers with female workers in STEM and visits to related institutions.

Eligibility

• Mentor team: Composed of more than three women working for science and engineering companies, research institutes, etc.
• Mentees: Female university students, graduate students, etc., specializing in STEM
  ※ Students on leave and graduates are allowed to participate only for those who are unemployed

Details

• Visits to the mentor’s company/research institute, mock interviews, special lectures on jobs/skills, and provision of the latest science and technology information and employment information

Together with global companies highlighting diversity and inclusion as their core values, we help female university students (or graduates) in science and engineering grow into women in STEM with global competency.

Eligibility

• Mentors : Scientists and engineers working for global corporations ※ Proceed on a corporate basis
• Mentees : Female college students, graduate students, etc. specializing in science or engineering
  ※ Students on leave can participate in unemployment

Details

• On/offline mentoring, special lectures on recruitment in connection with corporate HR teams, visits to company/research institutes, special lectures on jobs/skills, mock interviews, etc.

Corporate partners for the Global Mentoring Program

We provide global networking opportunities for women in STEM to design their future with outstanding female scientists and engineers in Korea and the United States.

Eligibility

• Mentors : Korean women in STEM in the United States ※ Target(KWiSE)
• Mentees : Female college students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, etc. specializing in science or engineering

Details

• Mentor-mentee: On/offline mentoring, special lectures on jobs/skills, special lectures on thesis writing, elevator pitch, mock interviews, sharing of information on overseas jobs, etc.
• STEM Career Talk Concert: Sharing of career path stories and Q&A with various experts from promising industries (twice a year; held in the first and second halves of the year)

This is a program in which female leaders with extensive experience or female corporate executives provide female employees at the middle-management level with career mentoring to become female leaders in the industry.
Initially, it mainly focused on people in technical positions in the IT industry, but it is continually expanding by discovering and including new fields such as BT, engineering, and chemical sectors.

Eligibility

• Mentors: Executive-level female leaders in STEM (20+ years of work experience)
• Mentees: Female employees in STEM

Details

• Job-tailored group mentoring by female leaders
• Networking opportunities for current employees per industry
• 1:1 online mentoring with no spatiotemporal constraints

We provide science and technology-based entrepreneurship support and education for establishing and running startups so that women in STEM can follow various career paths and perhaps even begin a startup. Moreover, by actively discovering excellent startup models, we create a culture and environment in which women in STEM can start their own businesses.

Eligibility

• Women in STEM who are preparing or wishing to start a business

Details

• Provide customized entrepreneurship skill programs according to the level of preparedness, field, technology, etc.