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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20070228 Wednesday February 28, 2007

6 Simultaneous SEED Mentoring Terms

Greg Papadopoulos (Sun's Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development) yesterday sent out the email announcement on the most recent SEED Engineering mentoring term. Greg has been the executive sponsor for the Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development program since it started in 2001.

The new "4-Site" term is for Sun Engineering Staff in Bangalore, Beijing, Prague, and St. Petersburg. I am working here in Bangalore so that I can answer questions from the staff at this and the other 3 sites during the 1-14 March application period. I give my first formal presentation to the IEC (India Engineering Centre) managers tomorrow morning. There will also be two formal phone-in meetings (on 6 March and on 13 March) during which Tanya Jankot and I will answer questions from potential applicants and their managers.

SEED is now running 6 mentoring terms:

  1. 4-Site Term (June-December 2007) application period starts tomorrow
  2. Distinguished Engineer Mentoring Pilot (March - September 2007) in mentor matching cycle
  3. SEED-2 Program for SEED Alumni Participants (March - September 2007) in mentor matching cycle
  4. Established Staff Participants (January - June 2007)
  5. Recent Hire Staff Participants (September 2006 - September 2007)
  6. Established Staff Participants (September 2006 - March 2007) ending soon
This is as many terms as SEED can run at the same time with its current structure. Hand-matching participants and executive mentors is limited by the number of executives available at any time. Also, very senior participants (and the very senior potential mentors they require) often take longer to match. The more terms SEED offers for senior staff (Established Staff, DEs, SEED-2), the longer the matching cycle and potentially the fewer terms offered.

Posted at 02:05AM Feb 28, 2007 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |