Welcome 2007-2008 SEED Mentors

Congratulations and welcome to the 68 mentoring pairs in the
SEED Engineering mentoring program 2007-2008 terms! Here are
some 2007-2008 Metrics:

SEED Alumni
Executives
- Recent Hire Mentors include:
  - 1 Fellow/Vice President
  - 4 VPs
  - 5 Distinguished Engineers
  - 4 Directors
  - 58% executives overall
- Established Staff Mentors include:
  - 1 Fellow/Vice President
  - 7 VPs
  - 15 Distinguished Engineers
  - 11 Directors
  - 77% executives overall
Mentor Experience with SEED
- 21 Mentors are serving for the 1st time with SEED (31%)
- 19 Mentors are in their 2nd SEED term (28%)
- 16 Star Mentors are in their 3rd or 4th term (24%)
- 13 Superstar Mentors are in their 5th to 10th SEED term (19%)
Location
- 41 mentoring pairs are working at a distance – in different
  states or countries (60%)
- 27 work in the same area or the same town (40%)
Priority
- 88% of participants (59 count) were matched with one of their
  top four priority choices on their Mentor Wish List:
  
  50 with #1 or #2
  
  9 with #3 or #4
  
  9 with someone at #5 or lower in priority
- 6 participants had to prepare more than one Mentor Wish List
  this term. 5 of those were because the 1st list was incomplete.
Cycle Time
- 1st email invitations went to potential mentors on 9 July 2007.
- Last match was confirmed in email on 23 August 2007.
- This was a 47 day matching cycle.

More information on SEED is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/