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Mentoring use case

Return & re-onboarding

“People coming back from parental leave or a long absence lose momentum fast, how do we catch them.”

What we hear from HR teams

Don't let people coming back from parental leave or a long absence lose momentum. RandomCoffee pairs them with someone who has been through the same transition, before the return date.

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What is return mentoring?

Coming back after parental leave, a long absence or an expat assignment means returning to an organization that has changed: the tools, the priorities, sometimes the whole team. Return mentoring pairs every returner with a colleague who has been through the same transition and knows exactly where the traps are.

Timing matters as much as the pairing: anxiety peaks in the last weeks of leave, not after the return. Creating the pair before the return date changes everything, the first conversation happens when it helps most.

How RandomCoffee de-risks returns

The pairing is created before the return date, not weeks after.

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Spot upcoming returns

Leave end dates flow in from your HRIS: every return automatically triggers a pairing.

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Match on lived experience

The mentor has been through the same transition: parental leave, long absence, international move.

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Start before day one

The first conversation happens before the return, when the questions pile up.

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Support the key weeks

A session cadence over the first weeks, the ones that decide whether confidence comes back.

The value for your organization

→ A pairing with someone who has been through the same transition, before the return date.

2x
faster back up to speed
returners with a re-onboarding mentor report feeling caught up in about half the time.
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the pairing exists before the return
the pair forms during the last weeks of leave, when anxiety peaks.
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forgotten returns
every return date in the HRIS triggers the program automatically.

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Tell us about your context and our experts will show you how to launch your “Return & re-onboarding” program with RandomCoffee, and what comparable organizations achieved.

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