
FAQ
Cultivate Mentorship Program FAQ
- Mentors for the CULTIVATE mentorship program should be seasoned professionals who are Directors, Vice Presidents, Presidents or any other C-suite executive.
- Any professional background who believes they have value to offer to Black professionals entering the tech field or business field.
- If you think your skills, knowledge and experience could be a valuable asset to Black professionals looking for guidance in their chosen field, please apply to become a mentor.
- Those who reside in Canada and self-identify as Black and are between the ages of 18 and 29 years old.
- The minimum time commitment for the CULTIVATE mentorship program is six months with a possibility of continuing the mentorship relationship if both parties agree.
- Unlock new skillsets
- Gain invaluable professional insight
- Building opportunities to network with professionals
- Develop hard and soft skills
- Give back to your community and help shape the future
- Develop your leadership skills
- Expand your professional network
- Gain a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment
- Create your Obsidi.com member profile.
- Fill out all the required fields within your member profile.
- Upload your resume to your Obsidi member profile to ensure your account is 100% complete.
- Retrieve your Obsidi member referral link and enter it into the mentee or mentor application form on the website
- Create your Obsidi.com member profile.
- Fill out all the required fields within your member profile.
- Upload your resume to your Obsidi member profile to ensure your account is 100% complete.
- Retrieve your Obsidi member referral link and enter it into the mentee or mentor application form on the website
Become A Member using Social accounts
- Click become a member
- Select your preferred social network (LinkedIn, Google or Slack)
- Input your credentials for the selected social network and sign in
- Accept permissions to share data
- Input your first name, last name, and select the appropriate answer to ‘Are you a member of the black community?’ and click save
- Click link to complete profile
Become A member using Email
Click become a member
Click the Mailbox icon
Input your email address, password and confirm password
Click the send code button. A confirmation code will then be sent to your email
Access your email and copy the confirmation code. Note: the code expires within 90 seconds, if the code expires, click the resend code link
Input the confirmation code and click Become a Member
Input your first name, last name, and select the appropriate answer to ‘Are you a member of the black community?’ and click save
Click the link to complete your profile
First time becoming a member?
Yes - click on the link to complete your profile on the welcome modal
No - click on the pencil icon on the name card on the tea spot page or profile page
To update your profile image, first name, last name, gender, age range, country, province/ state & city
Click on the pencil icon on the name section, and make the updates/changes
Made changes?
- If yes, click the update button to save changes
- If no, click cancel
To make changes to your headline, company name, experience level, years of experience, industry, area of expertise & website url
Click on the pencil icon on the Job section, and make the updates/changes
Made changes?
- Yes, click update button to save changes
- No, click cancel
To add your reason for joining
Click on the pencil icon on the main goal section and select a reason for joining
Selected a reason?
- Yes, click update button
- No, click cancel button
You can upload an image from your profile
- Click on the pencil icon on the name card on the tea spot page or profile page
- Click on the pencil icon on the name section
- Click upload image
- Select image
- Click open
- Click update button
NB: Upload limit for image is 5mb and file type is png, jpeg or jpg
You can remove you profile image from your profile
- Click on the pencil icon on the name card on the tea spot page or profile page
- Click on the pencil icon on the name section
- Click remove image
- Click update button
Resumes can be added through your profile
- Click on the pencil icon on the name card on tea spot page or profile page
- Click on the pencil icon on the Job section, scroll down to upload files here
- Click upload files here
- Select resume
- Click open and update.
Note: resumes must be in doc or pdf format
Resume can be removed from profile page
- Click on the pencil icon on the name card on tea spot page or profile page
- Click on the pencil icon on the Job section, scroll down to upload files here
- Click remove
- Click update button
Logged in? Yes
- On the web, click on the drop down menu on the top right corner
- On mobile, tap on your image on top left corner to view menu
- then, select change password
- enter new password
- enter confirm new password
- click submit
Logged in? No
- Click member login
- Click forgot password
- Input email and click send reset email
- Check email for ‘please reset password’ from Obsidi by BPTN
- Click reset password from email
- Enter new password, enter confirm password and click submit
- Click invite peeps on dropdown menu or on tea spot
- Click copy icon beside your unique link
- Send to your contacts
You can only invite peeps when you are logged in
You must be logged in to send a connection request
From tea spot
Through a post
- Click on the name or image of a Member
- Click connect on their profile page
Or
Through suggested connection
- Click connect or click on their name or image to view their profile and click connect
From search bar
- Type the name of Member
- Click on the member’s name or image
- View profile and click connect
Or
- Tap or click on the search bar
- Click see all result (Note, you can use a filter to narrow down search or scroll down)
- Click connect
a. From my Tribe
On web
- Click on my tribe on the navigation bar
- Click received tab
iii. Click accept
Or
Want to view the sender's profile? Click sender's name or image, view profile and click accept
On mobile
- tap on your image on the top left corner to view menu, tap my tribe
- select received from the drop-down menu
iii. click accept
Or
Want to view the sender's profile? click sender's name or image, view profile and click accept
b. From pings
- Click on pings on navigation bar
- Click view
- Click accept
Click decline instead of accept (ref accept process)
From tea spot
a. For web
- Click on your image or name on the name card
- Or click the page button on the name card
- View total number of connections
b. For mobile
- Click your image on the top left corner to view menu
- Tap on My page
- View the total number of connections
From my Tribe
a. on web
- click on my tribe on the navigation bar
- Connections will be listed on the connected tab
- click block on desired connection
b. on mobile
- tap on your image on top left corner to view menu, tap my tribe
- scroll down to find the Member you want to block
- click block
From tea spot
- Click on the member’s name or image
- Ensure that you are connected.
- No, then connect. (N.B. Messages can only be sent to members you are connected with)
- Yes, click message
- Type message into the message box and click send
- Recipient would receive an email notification
From my tribe
- Under connected tab scroll to find the member
- Click message
- Type message into the message box and click send
From Search
- Type the member’s name into the search bar and click on their name or image
- Click message
- Type message into the message box and click send
Or
- Type the member’s name and click see all results
- Scroll to the member and click message button
- Type message into the message box and click send
From Direct message icon
- Click or tap on the message icon on the navigation bar
- Click on the name or image of the message sender
- Type your response into the message box and click send
- Click the DM icon on navigation bar
- Click on the message to open the message box
- Click the three dots on the specific message you want to edit
- Click edit message
- Make changes to the message and click save
- Click the DM icon on navigation bar
- Click on the message to open the message box
- Click the three dots on the specific message you want to delete
- Click delete message
- Are you sure you want to delete the message, click ok
- Are you sure you want to delete the entire conversation, click ok
- Click the DM icon on navigation bar
- Click on the message to open the message box
- Click the three dots on the top right corner of the message box
- Click delete conversation
- Click or tap the create a post box
- Input title & description
- Attach video or image if desired
- Click post
- Click or tap create a post box
- Click or tap video icon
- Select the video and click open
- Preview video and click post
- Click or tap create a post box
- Click or tap image icon
- Select the image and click open
- Preview image and click post
- Click on the three dots on the top right of your post
- Click or tap edit post
- Make edits to the post and click post
- Click on the three dots on the top right of your post
- Click or tap delete post
- Are you sure you want to delete this post? click ok
- Click on the message icon or message on the post
- Type your comment into the comment box
- Click send icon to comment
Character limit for comment is 250
- Click on the reaction on the post
- Click on the preferred reaction (fist, raise hand or fist bump)
- Click on repost or share icon on the post
- You can add more details and click post
- Click on the three dots on the top right of your post
- Click or tap copy link to post
You can find all your post in your profile pace, scroll to find my tea
On the web
- Click the drop-down menu on the top right of the navigation bar
- Click mode to switch between dark and light mode
On a Mobile device
- Click on your name or image on the top left of the navigation bar to open menu
- Click mode to switch between dark and light mode
To view all notifications: Click or tap pings on the navigation bar, and scroll to view all your notifications
To clear all notifications: Click or tap pings on the navigation bar, and click clear all notifications
On web
- When logged into Obsidi
- Click on the dropdown menu on the navigation bar
- Click feedback, the select if something is not quite right or if it is a compliment
- Add your message, upload image if any
- Then, click submit
On mobile
- When logged into Obsidi
- Click your image to bring up the side menu
- Click feedback, the select if something is not quite right or if it is a compliment
- Add your message, upload image if any
- Then, click submit