Add awards and honors to the profile

Step 1: First step to add details about awards and honors is to login into mentis. 

Step 2: Click on “My Profile” present in the drop-down menu of profile name on the top right-hand corner of the webpage.

Step 3: Click on “Add new” present on the right-hand side of “Awards and Honors” in “About me”. You can also use “Please click here to add” to add details about awards received by you. You can rearrange details after you have added details for awards and honors using “Rearrange”. You can also edit or remove the details by using “Edit” present on the right-hand side. 

Step 4: In “New Awards and Honors” you can add details in sub-steps namely “Award Information”,“Recipient Info” and “Visibility”. The introduction consists of instructions about using next and accept to save your information. Each sub-step is interconnected by “Next” and “Previous” button.

Step 4.1: In sub-step “Award Information” you need to add details like “Name of the Award”, “Award URL”, “Award Type”, “Award Description” and “Awarding Organization”. You can add details about “Award Type” by choosing “One time award” or “Life time award”. In “Award description” you can copy and paste details from existing source. In “Awarding Organization” you can create a hierarchy by adding child unit using “+ Add child unit”. You can also delete the existing sponsor or awarding organisation by using the delete button.

Step 4.2: In sub-step “Recipient Info” you can add details like “Achievements”, “Detail URL”, “Date awarded” and “Date started”. In “Achievement” you can copy and paste details from existing source. In “Detail URL” you can enter the URL which includes your name as an award recipient.You can add details in “Date awarded”, “Date started” and “Date Ended” in the month and year format. You need to add details in “Date ended” only if you have selected “One time award” as “Award Type” in the previous step.        

Step 4.3: In sub-step “Visibility Controls” you can control the visibility of a particular award by using checkbox “Hide from my public profile”.   

Step 5: Click on “Accept” to add an award. You can edit details in particular step by using “Previous” button.