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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20080222 Friday February 22, 2008

PreSEED Mentor Matching Started

The mentor matching cycle for the PreSEED program participants started on 19 February. That is, the first email invitations went out that day. Ten are matched so far with four additional potential Mentors having responded that they are considering it.

If PreSEED follows the same pattern as the older SEED mentoring program, Participants may be considered by as many as six potential Mentors before a good match is found. Others are immediately matched with their first choice. Each potential Mentor may have multiple email, phone, or personal contacts with the program staff. Potential Mentors are contacted serially in priority order and each one may take a long time to respond and then decide. It may take about six weeks to match all of the current PreSEED Participants.

The Participant is not kept informed of each step in the match process. They will not know which potential Mentor from their "Mentor Wish List" is contacted. Potential Mentors need to have space and time to consider the possibilities of a mentoring partnership without risk of offending the potential Mentee or interfering with future communications with them or their Manager.

PreSEED is a pilot of the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program. More information on SEED is available at http://research.sun.com/SEED/

Posted at 11:19PM Feb 22, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |