Five Reasons to Become a Mentor in 2025

Whether you’re tired of your job or just looking for a change, online mentoring is an excellent opportunity that could well be the turning point in your career. Providing anyone with the chance to share and monetise their knowledge and experience, Career Navig8r is a platform that’s designed to bring you another option.

But is now really the time to jump on board with this career revolution? And why could becoming a mentor benefit you in 2025?

1. Your Hours, Your Rates

The first thing to say about mentoring is that it puts you in the driver’s seat of your career. Say goodbye to negotiating with your boss or having to prove your value to a company who are determined to downplay it. As a mentor you decide when you work and how much for.

On Career Navig8r, potential mentees can see the experience and job history you choose to post meaning they can see exactly the value you bring as a mentor. Mentees can decide if they want to pay extra for value or not. It’s a truly fair system that won’t force you to make promises you don’t want to keep.

2. Solo Self-Employment Leads to Increased Happiness

Here at Career Navig8r, if there’s one thing we firmly believe it’s that being in control of your own career will always make you happier, and it looks like the data is on our side.

According to a study conducted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the number of self-employed people went up by around 2.5% between the years 2000 and 2019. 

When you look at a breakdown of the numbers, an interesting trend emerges. The vast majority of new self-employed workers declared themselves as solo self-employment – that is to say small businesses without any employees. In fact, the number of self-employed people with employees actually went down during that time.

So why the increasing popularity of solo self-employment over that period? While the study’s conclusions were broad and did note multiple incentives leading towards the trend, one conclusion was quite clear: solo self-employed people were much happier. They also reported lower rates of anxiety and higher rates of self worth.

Everyone deserves to feel happiness and self worth, and the beauty of becoming a mentor is that it allows anyone from any discipline to experience those benefits.

3. The Failings of Traditional Employment

It’s no secret that traditional employment has failed many workers for many reasons. From wage stagnation to the growing necessity of job hopping, employees across almost every discipline are feeling the cost of living right now.

Faced with this situation, it’s not so surprising that many skilled and proficient workers are deciding to cut their losses and start their own businesses.

Now, starting your own business comes with many benefits but it also comes with many expenses along with a whole host of risks. Whether you’re buying equipment or hiring people to work for you, the reality is that it’s very hard to break away from traditional employment and failing to do so can cause huge problems down the line.

So why become a mentor? By becoming a mentor alongside your traditional job, you can transition towards a self-employed career without needing to take any of the risks usually associated with quitting your job. It’s the perfect way to test the waters before diving right in.

4. The Rise of Remote Working

Now let’s talk about how mentoring helps the mentor.

Mentoring online means working remotely, communicating largely through video calls. In years gone by this might have been off-putting to many because of a general stigma and discomfort around remote communication.

In 2025 we have an incredible array of tools at our disposal to make online communication easier than it’s ever been before. Furthermore, most people are far more familiar with the practice than they used to be, allowing them to grow comfortable with it.

Put simply, where once the thought of working over video calls made people think of awkward pauses and technical difficulties, now it’s just an everyday part of our lives. This, in turn, opens up a wide market of people looking to learn who won’t mind doing so in front of a screen.

5. It’s Easier Than Ever Before!

With Career Navig8r, becoming an online mentor is easier than it’s ever been. With just a quick sign up, you can be on the track to success. All your future mentees will need to do if they want to find you is search the job role they’re looking for on our site and they’ll be taken straight to a page containing your listings.

Join the growing number of Navig8rs who are helping to transform the career landscape so that anyone can work their dream job role!