Just about two hours ago, I sent out the world-wide all-Engineering
announcement that Sun’s new PreSEED mentoring term is accepting
applications from today through 30 April. We linked up the overview
pages a few days ago so potential applicants could review the material
and get ready.
The SEED program
ran two pilots to test out PreSEED in 2008. This is our second regular
PreSEED term.
One way to think of PreSEED is as a preliminary to Sun’s successful SEED Engineering mentoring program. Since 2001, the CTO-sponsored SEED program has a proven track record of strong diversity, very high satisfaction, high regard by management, and high retention. SEED participants as a group earn more promotions and higher performance ratings than Sun overall. Of course,
individual experiences will vary.
PreSEED has a time-based acceptance process (we take
the first 50 with complete and verified applications), so I was not
surprised to see applications start arriving quickly. So far, eight
have come in and one is already complete. Lots of email questions too…
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