We started the mentor matching cycle on 11 March for the new
SEED worldwide Engineering
Established Staff term. Already, eight executives and senior Engineers
have accepted match requests. Two pairs came into the program with
prior understandings that they would work together. 39 participants are
still in the process of being matched with mentors. All participants
will be matched, most within the next three weeks.
Metrics
The eight newly matched mentors include three Distinguished Engineer/Directors, one
Distinguished Engineer/Vice President, one Fellow/Vice President, one Vice President,
one Principal Engineer/Director and a Senior Staff Engineer. The geographical
pairings so far include:
- Itasca, IL USA with Burlington, MA USA
- Menlo Park, CA USA with Houston, TX USA
- Menlo Park, CA USA with Santa Clara, CA USA two pairs
- Montbonnot Saint Martin, France with Prague, Czech Republic
- Santa Clara, CA USA with Burlington, MA USA
- Seattle, WA USA with Santa Clara, CA USA
- Somerset, NJ USA with Universal City, CA USA
Next Terms
SEED runs seven terms a year. The next
terms will be for PreSEED and GSS SEED. Applications for PreSEED and GSS SEED
will be accepted starting at the end of March 2009 – the terms will run June-December 2009.
Those terms will be followed by an Established Staff term plus the year-long term
for Recent Hires (applications in June, terms to start in September 2009).
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