You can tell her what are the most important things she can be doing now to prepare for a career in industry later. In past mentoring programs we have conducted, mentors sometimes balk at the title of mentor. Another valuable thing you can offer is your own experiences, both positive and negative, from when you were a student or now as a professional. In various studies across fields, being mentored has consistently been linked with academic and professional achievement. They receive guidance and advice, report higher confidence levels, and gain access to networks and other resources.
Mentors also reap benefits.
Mentors appreciate the opportunity for self-reflection about their own career path, they report gaining an increased understanding of their discipline. They have the opportunity to network with newly emerging professionals and have the opportunity to recruit colleagues and successors. Mentoring develops supervisory and management skills. You've probably given us a fair amount of information about yourself in your application form, but the only information we pass on to your student is your name, position, employer, gender, phone number, and email address. You will need to discover everything else about each other on your own.