We have received 61 applications so far to Sun’s worldwide Engineering mentoring program, SEED. The SEED Established Staff term will run 15 January-16 June 2007. All application materials are due this Friday, 24 November 2006.
21 of the 61 applications have been completed but 8 others have already been disqualified. All were disqualified for being too junior for an Established Staff term, which requires among other criteria that participants be at Principal level (Sun U.S. grade 9 equivalent) or above.
I am holding two more phone-in presentation-and-question sessions this week: today
at 5 p.m. (in about 40 minutes) and tomorrow at 8 a.m., Pacific time. Usually,
the majority of applications come in during the last three days. We are getting
a good number of applications from outside of the western USA:
- Central USA: 10 [ 16% ]
- China: 5 [ 8% ]
- Czech Republic: 2 [ 3% ]
- EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa): 2 [ 3% ]
- Eastern USA: 5 [ 8% ]
- India: 2 [ 3% ]
- Ireland: 1 [ 2% ]
- Russia: 1 [ 2% ]
- United Kingdom: 3 [ 5% ]
- Western USA: 29 [ 48% ]
- no response: 1 [ 2% ]
On 28 November, we will pick up to 40 participants to form SEED’s
Established Staff term. The selection announcement will go to all applicants
and their managers that same day.
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