Today at midnight is the deadline for the 2008-2009 SEED applications.
Until then, the SEED program is accepting applications from Sun Engineering
staff worldwide for its Recent Hire and Established Staff mentoring terms which
will start in September 2008. (The next PreSEED term does not start until
January 2009.) To date, we have received 155 SEED applications, 84 of which
are complete. This total includes:
- Recent Hires: 42 applications, 17 complete
- Established Staff: 113 applications, 67 complete
All materials are due today. In most terms, more SEED applications
are disqualified because materials are submitted
late or are incomplete than for any other reasons. SEED’s application
process is intended to collect information and also to provide an
opportunity for applicants to demonstrate that they are good
communicators, well thought of, organized, and can meet deadlines.
SEED has applications in so far from Sun Engineering staff working in Australia,
Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, P.R. China, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA.
They work for Sun Labs, Microelectronics, Global Sales and Services, Software,
Storage, Systems, and Worldwide Operations.
Tanya Jankot and I are exchanging many emails with applicants, managers, and
recommenders. My SEED email file for June has 759 emails in it already!
Extensive materials are available on our SEED web pages inside the Sun network.
We have process documents (including flow charts, of course), FAQs for applicants,
participants, and managers, best practices and how-to documents, and lists
of participants and mentors since 2001. Tanya recently automated the web pages
which list who has been a SEED or PreSEED participant from some of Sun’s
biggest non-US Engineering sites: 76 for Beijing and China, 120 for Bangalore
and India, 37 for Prague Czech Republic, and 50 in St. Petersburg Russia.
One of the best parts of managing this program is working with people
from all over the world who share a passion for Engineering and Computer
Science.
More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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