SEED’s 2008-2009 Engineering mentoring program application web pages are now
disabled. Today, Tanya and I reviewed and cleaned things up before
passing a summary to Human Resources for information verification. HR will check
dates of hire, titles, annual performance ratings, etc. I also declined
many email requests from applicants and managers wanting to submit just one more
document after the deadline. Cleaning up the application records takes time
and can be complex: sometimes valid documents are misfiled (for example, by managers
or executives who mis-type the identification number of the applicant they want
to recommend), and sometimes parts of the forms (often the job title) are left
blank, so we have to look up the information.
SEED received 169 applications by yesterday’s deadline, of which 127
were known to be complete this morning. 4 more were completed today as a
result of our cleanup. (I expect to see more completions as we continue to
sort out document confusions.) This morning’s preliminary total includes:
- Recent Hires: 45 applications, 29 complete
- Established Staff: 124 applications, 98 complete
Applicants were based in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, P.R. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and
the USA. SEED’s selection committees meet on 18 June and announcements will be made
immediately after.
More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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