Katy Dickinson

2007 SEED Established Staff Term

All 49 of the SEED participants in the 2007 Established Staff Term of the SEED Engineering mentoring program are now matched with mentors.

Seniority

73% of the mentors (36 count) are executives:

14 Vice Presidents (including 1 Fellow)
12 Directors
10 Distinguished Engineers

Since this is an Established Staff term, all participants are Principal level or are even more senior, and all have been with Sun Engineering as regular staff for over 2 years.

Mentors

• 6 SEED Alumni Returning as Mentors (12%)
• 22 Mentors are serving for the 1st time with SEED (45%)
  11 Mentors are in their 2nd time (22%)
  10 Star Mentors are in their 3rd or 4th time (20%)
  6 Superstar Mentors are in their 5th or higher SEED term

Location*

• 31 mentoring pairs are at a distance (63%)
• 18 work in the same area or the same town (37%)

* In the December 2006 SEED quarterly reports, as in prior reports, analysis does not show significant difference in responses to "Q15 Overall Worth of Meetings with Mentor" and "Q24 Overall Satisfaction with Program" between participants At-a-Distance from their mentor and those co-located with their mentor. In this quarter, the difference in reported satisfaction was 5% between the two groups for Q15, 2% for Q24. This is a positive indication that SEED mentoring partnerships are beneficial to participants whether or not the mentoring pair is able to meet in person.

Priority

80% of participants (39 count) were matched with one of their top four priority choices on their Mentor Wish List:
26 with #1 or #2
13 with #3 or #4
10 with someone at #5 or lower in priority

In most SEED terms, 80% or more of participants are matched with one of their top four mentor choices.

Cycle Time

• Matching started on 11 December 2006 and ended 1 February 2007: a 52 day cycle
• Specifically:
  24 November 2006 - 2007 Established Staff Term applications were due
  28 November - 49 participants were selected
  11 December - first 49 invitations to mentors out in email
  14 December - 15 matched (31%)
  18 December - 26 matched (53%)
  25 December - 37 matched (76%)
  1 January 2007 - 37 matched (76%)
  8 January - 44 matched (90%)
  15 January - 47 matched (96%)
  1 February - 49 matched (100%)

Gender

• Gender of Participants
  37 Male, 75%
  12 Female, 25%
• Gender of Mentors
  39 Male, 80%
  10 Female, 20%

  Posted at 11:19AM Feb 05, 2007 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |