Welcome and Congratulations to the 106 New Mentoring Pairs
of the Global Sales and Service SEED
and PreSEED (January – June 2009) Worldwide Sun Engineering Mentoring Terms:
we are honored and delighted to include them!
Because of ten* replacement mentor matches, these terms took longer
than usual to complete the mentor matching cycle. Two mentees are
still being rematched but all participants been matched at least once.
These terms had a 112 day matching cycle (3 December – 5 March 2009).
74% were matched for the first time in the first 3 weeks.
* 7 from these two terms and 3 from the 2008-2009 Recent Hire term
Additional Metrics
- Executive Mentors
GSS Term: 76% executive mentors (Vice Presidents, Directors, Principal Engineers, Distinguished Engineers, etc.)
(PreSEED allows only principal-level mentors, so no executives) - Local vs. Distant
GSS Term: 2 mentoring partners working locally (4%),
52 working at a distance – in another state or country (96%)
PreSEED Term: 16 mentoring partners working locally (30%),
38 working at a distance – in another state or country (70%) - Meeting Mentee Request Priorities
74% of mentees were matched with one of their
top four mentor requests (80 count)
63 mentees were matched with their
1st or 2nd priority mentor (58%)
17 mentees were matched with their
3rd or 4th priority mentor (16%)
28 mentees were matched with a mentor lower than 4th in
priority (26%) – this includes 7 rematched mentees
Next Terms
SEED runs seven terms a year.
The program is currently starting the mentor
matching cycle for a new Established Staff term. The next terms after that
will again be for PreSEED and GSS SEED. Applications for PreSEED and GSS SEED
will be accepted starting in early April; the PreSEED and GSS SEED terms
will run June-December 2009.
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