Welcome and Congratulations to the 84 New Mentoring Pairs
of SEED’s September 2008 – September 2009 Recent Hire Term (23) and
the September 2008 – March 2009 Established Staff Term (61):
we are honored and delighted to include them in Sun’s worldwide
Engineering mentoring program!
These terms had a 57 day matching cycle (9 July – 4 September 2008).
76% were matched in the first 14 days. Some additional metrics:
- Executive Mentors
- Recent Hire Term: 5 Vice Presidents or Fellows (22%), 10 Distinguished
Engineers or Directors (43%), and 8 other titles (35%). 65% executive mentors - Established Staff Term: 17 Vice Presidents or Fellows (28%), 34 Distinguished
Engineers or Directors (56%), and 10 other titles (16%). 84% executive mentors - Local vs. Distant
- Recent Hire Term: 5 mentoring partners working locally (22%), 18
working at a distance – in another state or country (78%) - Established Staff Term: 14 mentoring partners working locally (23%), 47
working at a distance – in another state or country (77%) - Meeting Priorities
- 77% of mentees were matched with one of their top four mentor requests
- 54 mentees were matched with their 1st or 2nd priority mentor (64%)
- 11 mentees were matched with their 3rd or 4th priority mentor (13%)
- 19 mentees were matched with a mentor lower than 4th in priority (23%)
More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program
is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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