On 14 May, the Global Sales and Service (GSS) executive Selection Committee,
made up of six Directors and Vice Presidents, picked the 23 new participants
for the 15 June – 15 December 2009
SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring term. This is the second GSS-only term
for SEED. There were 38 applicants this term. The selection was very difficult.
Participants in the SEED program were chosen based on professional
performance, manager and executive recommendations, and the other
SEED Selection Criteria.
The SEEDs in our second GSS term are an unusual group in several
dimensions: all men, mostly in Europe, plus two countries in which
SEED has not had participants working before: Hungary and Slovakia.
Compare to the more-usual demographic/geographic distribution of the
current PreSEED term announced on
8 May 2009.
The first GSS term also had some unusual metrics.
As I reported on
20 November 2008 and
5 March 2009, that GSS term included few women, and was widely distributed geographically, but ended up with 96% mentoring pairs working at a distance
(where the mentor and mentee are in another state or country). It
will be interesting to see how this second GSS term’s mentor matching
patterns work out.
The 81 new GSS SEED and PreSEED participants are now researching and writing their
3-learning-goal plus 10-name Mentor Wish Lists, due 22 May.
About the New GSS SEED Participants:
Location of Participants
Belgium 1, 4%
France 1, 4%
Germany 1, 4%
Hungary 1, 4%
Italy 1, 4%
Japan 2, 9%
Netherlands 1, 4%
Norway 1, 4%
Slovakia 1, 4%
Spain 1, 4%
Sweden 3, 13%
Switzerland 1, 4%
United Kingdom 3, 13%
USA 5, 22%
Gender of Participants
23 Male, 100%
6 are Managers, 26%
6 are prior SEED or PreSEED applicants, 26%
To learn more about SEED and to read SEED participants’ blogs,
check out
http://research.sun.com/SEED.
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