Requests

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!

I'm a mentor meeting with up to 6 mentees a week! It would be great if I had a personal space where I could log some notes about what we discussed and my thoughts on the mentee. Just for my eyes only.

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.

Sites like Quora and Stack Exchange have robust reputation systems. Reviews on ADPList now are almost completely positive. People do not want to antagonize a mentor. Anonymity is not available like Glassdoor to provide anonymous feedback. The goal is to have mentors/mentees differentiated to better help find good matches. This is a complicated topic, but a robust reputation system would need to find a good balance to work. My suggestion would be to have several facets of a review for both the mentor and mentee which they grade the other on a 1-5 system. For mentors you have facets like friendly, knowledgeable, technique, strategy, process, testing, networking, big company/startup, and other qualities. Each with a 1-5 grade. For mentees, you have creativity, energy, smarts, etc with the same grading. Also a text area for details. Lastly an option to make it anonymous. After every grading, it would not register the review for a random number of days between 14 and 30. That way it would be harder to know who said what protecting anonymity. Obviously, the design of this can go in many directions. This is just a strawman to illustrate the idea.

My availability is set to my local timezone in my location. When I was traveling, the platform picked up my new timezone automatically and is now allowing bookings in the incorrect timezone even though I am back. The automatic timezone detection is buggy which is why it is selecting a different timezone even though my availability is set to my current local time and I am not in the other timezone anymore. It would be helpful to have bookings set to a selected timezone(not automatically detected) and also show on the dashboard if we are in a different timezone( automatically detected).

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.

On my dashboard, I'd love to be able to see how this month's stats compare to last month, see the year so far, etc.

"Our Commitment To Trust & Safety" guidelines state that Expired Booking is an unattended booking request that is neither declined nor accepted within 48 hours. Which is not exactly true from the point of user experience. Please let me share an example. I've been through a situation when I had an ongoing conversation with a potential mentee trying to clarify whether I'll be a good fit to help them. And for me, as a mentor, there were just two options at that time: Decline or Accept the request. While we were in the conversation, the request is expired, with consequences for my potential mentee to be unable to keep the time slot they wanted to, and for me as a mentor to receive a notice of infrigmenet of the code of conduct. While the idea of having a strict deadline is undestandable, it unfortunately doesn't fit the complexity of the system ADPList has grown into. Most mentors here are passionate professionals volunteering their time and resources and for many 48 hours might now be enough to accept or decline a request. There may be many solutoins to this problem like, adding an "Extend request" option for a mentor if they are uncertain about thier availability or skills needed for the session, or automatically extend the time of a booking request beyond 24 hours if there's an ongoing messaging conversation between a mentor and a potential mentee. I am sure there are more ways to solve this problem and make the experience more humanist and adaptable to various scenarios.

There currently is not a way in the dashboard to opt out of the "you're meeting with X in 24 hours" emails. As a mentor, I should be able to disable these emails and not have to rely on inbox filters that could filter something more important accidentally.

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?