As a mentoring program participant, it's important to keep your availability for mentoring up to date, so you can manage expectations of your mentoring match and ensure you don't take on more than you can handle!
For example, if you find that you can only take on one mentoring relationship at a time, or you simply need to take a break from mentoring, you can make yourself unavailable for future matches from the dropdown menu underneath your name on the top right hand corner of your dashboard.
This will prevent participants from reaching out and sending you a match request as well as your Program Coordinators from manually matching you as they will see you are unavailable.
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Navigate to your Profile settings
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Use the 'Available for new matches' toggle to make yourself unavailable. You can change it back to available at any time.
Making yourself unavailable will not affect your existing matches.
Set your maximum number of matches
Setting your maximum capacity for any matches allows you to choose your capacity, and then Mentorloop will automatically update your availability depending on your settings.
From the same dropdown menu, enable the maximum number of matches toggle and choose the maximum number of matches you are willing to take on. Once you have reached that number, you will automatically be marked as unavailable so that you no longer receive any self-match requests to connect and your Program Coordinator is aware that you have reached your maximum capacity.