In Gaming Industry Why are We Excited About Mentor-Based Training
At Backstage Pass, we follow mentor-based training in Gaming Industry.
Do you want to know why we are excited about it?
What is Mentor-Based Training?
A mentor is an expert who guides and supports a student in developing skills and maximising the student’s potential.
At Backstage Pass, experienced mentors from the industry guide our students. The mentors come from different fields of game-making such as game art, game design, game publishing, and so on.
Also, the mentors are either entrepreneurs themselves or are senior professionals from leading game development companies in India and abroad. Therefore, the mentoring quality is of the highest order.
Backstage Pass counts several entrepreneurs among its mentors. Click the links to know their stories and their contributions to the gaming world.
Rahul Sehgal, Jay Dev, Asar Dhandala, and Sushil George.
For the gaming industry, mentor-based training is better than lecturing as it enhances student learning and provides a solid base for their careers.
The advantages of mentor-based training are many:
Growth Opportunity
Mentor-based training encourages the students to develop an entrepreneurial spirit in any task that they are involved in. Therefore, the students on the task and become more independent in thinking and action. They are more engaged in their task and in their own development.
The mentors create a student-centric curriculum that makes learning interactive, fun, and more involved (read experiential) than the standard college curriculum found in degree colleges. The students get an opportunity to think and grow. The mentors validate, support and encourage the students.
Influence
The mentor has a positive impact on the students. Mentor’s success and proximity motivate the students to learn as much unconsciously as they do consciously. Apart from sharing their knowledge and industry best practices, the mentors also educate the students on what went wrong when the mentors themselves were budding in their profession and how they learnt from their mistakes.
They let the students explore and learn practically. They pass on their experience and wisdom to the students. Mentors with a track record of making incredible games are revered by students.
Networking
The mentor-based training program strengthens and deepens the relationship between the students and the mentors. Consequently, the students learn soft skills like public speaking and interpersonal, problem-solving, and self-advocacy skills.
The mentors have a well-developed contact sphere within the gaming industry. Often, mentors help the students using their contact sphere.
The student-mentor relationship continues well after the students graduate and both continue to benefit.
Careers
A mentor-based training programme provides an opportunity for the students to build contacts with alumni and professionals from the gaming industry. They will get jobs in companies that hire through referral networks.
The mentor-based approach makes the students aware of what to expect when they graduate and get placed in a job. Every company has a mentor-based training programme, and they will easily be able to blend in.
Industry Recognition
The gaming industry conducts many workshops and seminars (learning and practice sessions) for our students. Many companies volunteer staff to teach our students as it helps them recruit the right talent and keep the talent pool relevant to the changing demands of the industry. The added benefit is a rich and industry-relevant curriculum.
Every Backstage Pass mentoring relationship has a clear and structured goal of student success, professional development, and all mentoring activities are related to that goal.