Requests

I typically set my booking slots for 5-6 PM EST. However, while traveling in China over the holidays, ADPList automatically updated my timezone and shifted my available slots to 5-6 PM local time, which corresponds to 4-5 AM EST. This unintended change led to scheduling issues that required rescheduling with a mentee. Could ADPList either maintain the original timezone settings regardless of the user’s location, or prompt a confirmation pop-up when a timezone change is detected to confirm whether availability needs to be updated?

Whenever life gets overwhelming, pending requests for new bookings within a day or two may not get answered in time. As a result: When a pending request is expired, it's removed from the adplist.org platform. The only source of reference is my email, but it would be helpful to minimize the amount of apps required to go through with a new mentee request (idea: new tab for "expired requests") I lose the context of their previous messages as a result and need to spend time asking what they'd like to get out of the session (idea above may help solve this) I cannot send a message to mentees and end up contacting them on Linkedin asking them to rebook (idea: ability to message mentees by clicking on their profile) Is there a way to respond to mentees easily to inform them that I may not be the best mentor to address their questions?

Filtered results include mentors who have upcoming availability but let all session requests be auto-declined after a few days. This makes it very difficult for mentees to find new mentors, and I've heard it is especially disheartening for new users. I know multiple people who have left the platform because of this experience. I highly recommend adding an algorithm/function to check and see how many session requests were accepted vs. declined, and how many were done automatically vs. manually. My recommendation: If (the past five session requests were auto-declined) OR (the past five sessions were auto-accepted AND the mentor no-showed for all five sessions), then turn off the mentor's session and email them with directions for how they can turn their session back on. Else, keep the mentor's sessions active, and continue to allow users to request sessions. Please make it easier for mentees to find mentors who are actually available.

When I was looking at changing job, I wanted to find mentors who worked in different company sizes, to know how it is and help me make a decision, such as: small startup, medium size, 1k+ employees, and also in-house and agency.

Once I send out a rescheduling request, I cannot edit it until the mentee accepts or rejects it. It would be great if I can withdraw/edit or cancel my rescheduling request WITHOUT CANCELING THE SESSION. Thank you!

Not exactly a usability feature request, but having a mobile app, really will help managing bookings, and sessions really easy to attend on the go. Thanks!

By requiring graduation dates on education, employers and such can use this to discriminate on people that are older.

I think it would be helpful to encourage a mentee to consider submitting their reviews of us as mentors on our LinkedIn profiles as a "recommendation" as well. These reviews provide context that future employers would also find enlightening. Right now - this info is siloed exclusively on ADPList. This could be solved by asking mentee's manually to do this - but perhaps there's a feature/integrated way to achieve this. Possibly a way to direct them to a link like this after they submit their review & encourage them to copy & paste their review in there - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garronengstrom/recommendation-add-edit/WRITE_RECOMMENDATION?profileFormEntryPoint=PROFILE_SECTION&trackingId=W53x1A56RHuVfy1xdGn8Fw%3D%3D&desktopBackground=MAIN_PROFILE&recipientProfileId=ACoAAAHvE1IBZl9uD0n-BGGEJpHk0DoEDWIL5Gk&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3Be9YZ89G8RvePmJNrEPxQyw%3D%3D LinkedIn would need to add a new option for "I was mentored by" vs. the current "I mentored this person". I've submitted that request to their team for consideration.

A anonymized analytics section for mentors would be very interesting. Some data that would be useful: Group session stats - avg number of RSVPs vs attendees. Avg length. Attendance vs time of day/week Mentor averages - avg mentees, avg sessions per week, avg mentees per month, avg session ratings mentee averages - what are they looking for as stats? number of active mentees, per week/month I think a #analytics section of the mentor slack group might be helpful to get more detail. We are designers after all and can help detail.

I am swamped with student requests. I'd like to try mentoring mid-career professionals. I've put this in my "intro question" to make it clear, but I keep getting requests from undergraduates. I'd like some way to a) make this clear and/or b) Make it possible to filter requests. I'm not against mentoring students! They just overwhelm my appointments. I'm just trying to find a way to have a better mix.