Katy Dickinson

65 PreSEED-2 Mentoring Applications

The PreSEED-2 application web pages were open between 14 April and noon today. We received 65 submissions by today's deadline, 57 of which are complete.

Once the application period was closed, the program staff started evaluating which applications are complete and meet the selection criteria: these are the eligible applications. Part of this evaluation is verification by Sun Human Resources (HR) of each applicant's recent performance ratings, hire date, etc. Applications which are substantially incomplete or are found to contain deliberate misrepresentations are eliminated from consideration. Another part of this evaluation is whether the applicant's manager strongly supports the application. Verification takes time and can't start until after the deadline. In a regular SEED term, 15% to 20% of applicants are disqualified for one reason or another.

The PreSEED-2 pilot mentoring term for Sun Software Members of the Technical Staff will accept up to 50 participants; it will run from June-December 2008. We will not know until after the verification review which submissions will be accepted. I will announce the participants accepted into PreSEED-2 on or before 25 April.

On 3 April, we announced PreSEED-2, the second pilot mentoring term aimed at helping Sun Engineering staff who have been getting almost all "Sun Standard" (2 or Standard-level) performance ratings onto a path which may lead them to higher engagement. The first PreSEED pilot term is currently under way, running from March-September 2008. The PreSEED-1 metrics and feedback so far are good and the same or better than metrics of a regular SEED worldwide mentoring term. We are now collecting the first formal feedback from PreSEED-1 mentees, managers, and mentors.

Software Chief Technologists Bob Brewin (Distinguished Engineer and Vice President) and Tim Marsland (Fellow and Vice President) are PreSEED's pilot term Champions. Greg Papadopoulos (Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development) is the SEED program executive sponsor.

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 02:37PM Apr 21, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |