Any mentor is expected to perform well at:

• Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Convincing others to accept and idea or to otherwise change their minds or actions in accordance to the companies objectives.
• Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.

Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

• Preparing materials for laboratory activities and course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
• Assisting students who need additional assistance with their coursework outside of classes.
• Providing students course related experiences, such as field trips, outside the classroom.
• Reviewing papers for publication in journals.
• Participating in campus and community events, such as giving presentations to the public.
• Preparing and delivering lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as molecular biology, marine biology, and botany.
• Evaluating and grading students’ class working, laboratory working, assignments, and papers.
• Compiling, administering, and grading examinations, or assigning this working to others.
• Supervising students’ laboratory working.
• Keeping abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• Maintaining student attendance records, grades, and other required records.