Katy Dickinson

Cleaning up and Checking SEED Mentoring Applications

SEED's 2008-2009 Engineering mentoring program application web pages are now disabled. Today, Tanya and I reviewed and cleaned things up before passing a summary to Human Resources for information verification. HR will check dates of hire, titles, annual performance ratings, etc. I also declined many email requests from applicants and managers wanting to submit just one more document after the deadline. Cleaning up the application records takes time and can be complex: sometimes valid documents are misfiled (for example, by managers or executives who mis-type the identification number of the applicant they want to recommend), and sometimes parts of the forms (often the job title) are left blank, so we have to look up the information.

SEED received 169 applications by yesterday's deadline, of which 127 were known to be complete this morning. 4 more were completed today as a result of our cleanup. (I expect to see more completions as we continue to sort out document confusions.) This morning's preliminary total includes:

• Recent Hires: 45 applications, 29 complete
• Established Staff: 124 applications, 98 complete

Applicants were based in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, P.R. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the USA. SEED's selection committees meet on 18 June and announcements will be made immediately after.

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

Posted at 10:29PM Jun 10, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |